Lose Your Soul

Back when I was younger, 15 years old
 I was trying to figure out where I'm gonna go
 I was out trying to find a block of gold, a rainbow
 I was chasing a rainbow
 Used to ride out every day all alone
 Trying to figure out why the worlds so cold
 Now I think about the words my mama told
 She said, "You can have it all but, don't lose your soul"
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 When I was 15, they said I was destined to fail
 Preacher man told me, I was headed to hell
 He told me death was the wage of sin
 And a young man with so much anger, caged within
 Riding 'round reminiscence, I'm thinking how I used to be
 Judge said that I was a danger to my community
 But back then I felt like I knew it all
 I was selling cocaine when other kids were shooting ball
 I'm tellin' you all the truth, my life was a movie y'all
 Shit, you better tell them red, we've been through it all
 From close caskets, to different court dates
 But 'cause we know, that this life ain't a short thing
 Back when I was younger, 15 years old
 I was trying to figure out where I'm gonna go
 I was out trying to find a block of gold, a rainbow
 I was chasing a rainbow
 Used to ride out every day all alone
 Trying to figure out why the worlds so cold
 Now I think about the words my mama told
 She said, "You can have it all but, don't lose your soul"
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 Mama said, there will be days like this
 I was a young man, just trying to make it rich
 Cocaine, was a rich man's high, and I was broke
 So, I found a couple rich guys, that snorted coke
 I remember rollin' up, brown weed in a Philly
 Smoking it and hearing scenes probably, that shit was silly
 And now it's hard to believe, that I was that guy at all
 And now I keep on slippin', and I'm trying not to fall
 I'm fucking different, woman trying to not get involved
 'Cause the higher we fly, the harder we fall
 And through it all, God never let me go I
 I said a prayer every day, and I kept my soul
 Back when I was younger, 15 years old
 I was trying to figure out where I'm gonna go
 I was out trying to find a block of gold, a rainbow
 I was chasing a rainbow
 Used to ride out every day all alone
 Trying to figure out why the worlds so cold
 Now I think about the words my mama told
 She said, "You can have it all but, don't lose your soul"
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 I'm feeling like the phoenix, how I'm raisin' from the ashes
 Now every mixed tape is a white trash classic
 To tell y'all the truth, it's been a long road
 We came a long way, but we still got so far to go
 Do this for my brother in the federal pen
 And I promise, you ain't going back ever again
 Back then, we were kids trying not to make the news
 Now we got this music thing, and I think it's breaking through
 But hold up, back then we had it so rough
 Used to do a couple shows but nobody showed up
 Now everybody knows us, they're like here comes trouble, damn
 I can't wait til I see my brother struggle, come on
 Back when I was younger, 15 years old
 I was trying to figure out where I'm gonna go
 I was out trying to find a block of gold, a rainbow
 I was chasing a rainbow
 Used to ride out every day all alone
 Trying to figure out why the worlds so cold
 Now I think about the words my mama told
 She said, "You can have it all but, don't lose your soul"
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul, don't lose your soul
 Don't lose your soul