Wednesday Night

I grew up on a Wednesday night
Where people used to live their life off one fight
Where 99 seconds was more than just hype
Tryna rep my city inside those bright lights
Where everybody new your name and your type
Tryna push a button, you nothing, you on ice
I wanna hit harder I swear I just might
Quarter on the stand I'm tryna play life
Man I wanted a change

Left my girl early when she said she didn't love me thеre was nothing i could say
Nothing seemed worthy yeah I knеw she wouldn't stay
When I found out she was with him, yeah, it never was the same
So I knew it wouldn't play
Never had a choice
You know how it feels like you never had a voice
People telling me 'stop it' i feel like maybe I lost it and all i had was my car, a joystick, a couple dollars, and a shot

Its different when you ride up on that clock
That meter is near empty, that energy about to pop
As soon as you hit a button and everybody go (aaahhhh)
You hear them hyper then ever, you know that they didn't block
And its like that
Give me my life back
Gimme that uppercut into ultra and yeah, maybe ill fight back
Nobody got it, they said Zaid you lost it
But nah man for once I feel honest
I grew up on a Wednesday night

[excerpts from interviews with FGC members]

I grew up on a Wednesday night
Where people used to live their life off one fight
Where 99 seconds was more than just hype
Tryna rep my city inside those bright lights
Where everybody new your name and your type
Tryna push a button, you nothing, you on ice
I wanna hit harder I swear I just might
Quarter on the stand I'm tryna play life
And yall don't get it

Imagine if its hard respect
Charge ya sets I'm hungry like I'm starved to death
I'm on that grind
Trainin' to body you up in that line
Trainin' to make you never just and fuck up everything you try
Train to love you cuz I hate you
You my brother and my enemy
Who else gonna send me in and pump me full of energy
Be better, be better, I remember Valle telling me
'You lose another match Zaid I ain't takin your entry fee'

Tryna make it
Shi gonna tell me 'everybody think you suck so we style gonna on you entertainment'
Train up in this basement, this a matter of pride
I prove myself to survive man, I just see the faces lookin at me
As I lose, work my bones early till
I get you in that corner and my left hand bruise with one move
Keep my will clear to kill fear
Valle looking at me like 'good shit, you still here'

Wednesday night
Where people used to live their life off one fight
Where 99 seconds was more than just hype
Tryna rep my city inside those bright lights
Where everybody new your name and your type
Tryna push a button, you nothing, you on ice
I wanna hit harder I swear I just might
Quarter on the stand I'm tryna play life
Come on

No... (no)
No
Yall don't know me (no)
This is all I had to make my own
All I had for home
Ohhhh

Its been a while since I played some
Every now and then i like to try an boot up ultra and I play some
4 was when i pushed it but 3s is where I came from
Saw the Daigo parry like "holy shit, this my game son"

Asus monitor sets and TVs
Combo Fiend telling me 'burn me one of your CDs'
Tourney nights going, I'm 7 - 3 against Chun-Li
Evo nights dapin' up homies sayinig 'you still free'

This is where I learned you ain't only good as your words
But the shit that you gotta earn as soon as you hit your turn
This is where i noticed that tryna cancel your focus is hopeless against opponents
I have to push my devotion
And this is where I learned that I am only good as my effort or what i pulled from the center
That yes, I could be better if I tried
When they ask me why I rhyme
I stand on stage every time and tell em

Yo I grew up on a Wednesday night
Where people used to live their life off one fight
Where 99 seconds was more than just hype
Tryna rep my city inside those bright lights
Where everybody new your name and your type
Tryna push a button, you nothing, you on ice
I wanna hit harder I swear I just might
Quarter on the stand I'm tryna play life
Come on