Come Back Home

by Apollo Brown & Joell Ortiz

From the album: Mona Lisa

Track 10 of 11 on Mona Lisa (2018).

Duration: 3:45

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Lyrics for Come Back Home

Lookin' sad and dreaming Uh, my how the time had passed Lookin' sad and dreaming Just yesterday I was backflippin' on pissy mattresses Smokin' blunts under the fuckin' slide in the park and shit Wow, uh I scrolled through the 'Gram and seen old friends I hung wit' Had a couple drinks, smoke blunts with, did dumb shit with You know, slum shit, slung mix and rung fifths Run quick, hop over gates, escape that one trip up North I asked myself, "What'd I do so different?" How did me and the younger me become so distant? Or are we not? Are the pieces of that block and parkin' lot parked up Under this facade of a kid who made it out But still feels trapped 'cause his bills stacked And hip-hop minoritize real rap, that's real rap I purchase things and get alerts from my bankin' app Like, boy you ain't 'posed to be doin' that Who you think you is? You ain't never had no single on the charts Only thing top forty about you is that new Glock Sittin' up in your closet next to that old trap phone You might have to pick both of those up and come back home Won't you-you come back home I need you-you to come back Won't you-you come back home Sometimes we go far and forget who we are and we gotta come back home I need you Yeah, I'm one of the few that could say I made it out But when I got out, did I do the things to make it count? Did I invest, find some things to feed my bank account? Or did I buy material shit that I coulda stayed without? It's my time, I'm real ill, I'm bout to get mill mills You haters with ill will, take chill pills That ain't how I still feel Though I'd forever be a cash cow But I ain't gonna cry over spilled milk I keep it pushin', beat cookin', rep Brooklyn Give whoopings through the pen like it's summertime in the bookings I'm lookin' off of these stages at faces that follow me Through the stages of my career and appreciate that I never staged it What you see is what you get What you hear is legit I'm from the era you ain't shit 'less we feel you could spit I've come to terms with the fact that I never might pop Just glad my relevance ain't rely on if I ever went pop Won't you-you come back home I need you-you to come back Won't you-you come back home Sometimes we go far and forget who we are and we gotta come back home I need you I'm thankful for all that I have and all that I do not I promise I won't lose sight Came back home

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