The Bird With No Wings Lyrics
[Intro]
Yeah, hey
The bird with no wings
Yeah
[Verse 1]
I wish you would've let me fly ma
Instead of livin' like a bird that didn't know he had wings
But still grateful I'm alive ma
Ain't no blueprint on being a perfect parent
You gave what you could provide ma
Took you to therapy
Had tears down my eyes ma
Had pnemonia as a baby, almost died ma
Felt every second of it
How time flies
Say I'm flawed as fuck
But the lord is who I'm designed by
Why, I never knew that I could soar
You couldn't heal scars I made with Aquaphor
Kept it a buck to see lil' change like dollar store
Feet planted whenever we meet like omnivores
I face challenges, fuck it get it over with
I do it now so my son don't gotta go through it
He just a baby so before he even notices
He wouldn't know that there was a bare present if he never seen me pokin' it
The hardest thing that I had to battle was on the ship
The stuff that killed me inside didn't leave the condolences
I don't bother to ask where the Ibuprofen is
Yeah, look
So many tears shower for seventy years
Still have enough to build a water park anywhere
I wish I knew I was born to fly in the air
I had the wings but I barely was aware
[Chorus]
I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above
How I stay inside the nest
Never let my wings stretch
Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late
He was a bird with no wings made his life a whole scene
I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above
How I stay inside the nest
Never let my wings stretch
Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late
He was a bird with no wings
[Verse 2]
The childhood me infected the manhood me
Ain't the man I wanna be but I'm a damn good me
Still tryna find me, he not answering me
My son wanna be me but I still can't turn me
I'm scared of growing pains though
So I just settle in the same old, same old
Which one if y'all got the Devil on payroll
Finna pour out my pain in this clay mold
How I turn to somethin' pretty, where you make those?
I don't know how it feel to drive on a paved road
A clear mental so refreshing while the page load
The old me ain't coming out like stained clothes
Yeah, heh
Speakin' of clothes, don't say that I'm weaker 'den 'em
Problems with commitment cause dad always leavin' women
No matter hard I try
I ain't wanna repeat the system
Its shirts I can't wear no more 'cause I cheated in 'em
Single parent home that laid the way I was grown
All the sticks and stones avoided my funny bone
I never realized problems in which I was raised 'til I started raising my own
Let that sink in
I wish my mama would've let a nigga fly
Can't see his full potential if you never let him try
I wish my mama would've let a nigga fly
There's so much gravity I should've been defied
Yeah
[Chorus]
I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above
How I stay inside the nest
Never let my wings stretch
Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late
He was a bird with no wings made his life a whole scene
I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above
How I stay inside the nest
Never let my wings stretch
Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late
He was a bird with no wings