Sideline

[Intro: David Dallas]
Yeah
D-dot D-A
And Ché, ayy

[Verse 1: David Dallas]
Know the boy D-Double do it all day
Get to messin' with his tracks, no foreplay
Seems simple now, but it wasn't always
Used to sit up in the Pap' High hallways
Teacher put me there sayin' that I talk too much
I thought I knew it all, but I never knew much
I come school late 'cause my form room sucked
And we hang out by the canteen all through lunch
Young teen with a pack mentality
No dream, I can make reality, all I care about's popularity
Tryna pass Jessica, tryna get a touch
And a Mufti day, try them with some new Chucks
Try them with some new Nikes or something
They didn't give a fuck about assignments or nothing
Didn't make music even though I loved it
Scared to try hard, too shy I'd get busted

[Chorus: Ché-Fu]
So I sit on the sideline
Just bidin' my time
If I could be in their shoes
The things that I'd do
But wishin' won't get you nowhere
Don't be scared to go there
If you sittin', why wait?
Do it the right way, yeah, yeah

[Verse 2: David Dallas]
No, I wasn't in the first fifteen
Wasn't in the choir, never learned to sing
Couldn't play an instrument or pluck a string
On guitar, not a little rich kid whose dad bought them a car
A regular dude fadin' into the background
Never took centre stage, didn't really stand out
I remember school TalentQuest, we would hang out
See this other dude rap then he'd be the man round E block
For like the next two weeks, scorin' all of the chicks
While these Diggas my mom bought are fallin' to bits
And I'm on detention for ignorin' Mr Smitts
And this bitch mocked me in class for havin' big lips
Was a hard knock life for a kid
Till I realized that a life isn't lived
If you're worryin' about what other people might think of it
Don't sleep on this little boy's raps 'cause he might be a hit

[Chorus: Ché-Fu]
So I sit on the sideline
Just bidin' my time
If I could be in their shoes
The things that I'd do
But wishin' won't get you nowhere
Don't be scared to go there
If you sittin', why wait?
Do it the right way, yeah, yeah

[Post-Chorus: Ché-Fu, David Dallas]
Don't let it go by
Ain't no reason known why
You're waitin' around
Yeah
You could be a star (Star)
Just watch from afar
Just stop waitin' around (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

[Verse 3: David Dallas]
School finished, did a little bit of growin' up
But it wasn't like music was just blowin' up
Shy as ever, figured out I had to grow some nuts
And put myself out there, so they know what's up
And, yeah, I was pretty scared what they might say
The friends that'd have to say it's bad in a nice way
Or I wasn't doin' it the right way
But there ain't no right or wrong
Got one life to live and it ain't that long
So you gotta stay strong, gotta stay on
'Nother day sittin', wishin' it's another day gone
'Nother day doin' dishes or just mowin' up the lawn
Could've been another day that another star was born

[Chorus: Ché-Fu]
So I sit on the sideline
Just bidin' my time (My time, yeah)
If I could be in their shoes
The things that I'd do (Things that I'd do)
But wishin' won't get you nowhere
Don't be scared to go there
If you sittin', why wait? (Why wait?)
Do it the right way, yeah, yeah

[Outro: David Dallas]
Yeah
Don't be scared, man
Don't worry too much about
What people are gonna say
At the end of the day
The only person that feels stink about that stuff is you
Ya know?