PAID MY DUES Lyrics

PAID MY DUES - NF

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Clicks, clicks, clicks, they'll do anything to get a few

Tick, tick, tick, that's the sound before my head explodes

Quit, quit, quit, look at you up on your pedestal

Quick, quick, quick, here the critics come, it's time to go

I read your article, it kinda hurt me

I don't know who hired you

Or what your friends say in your circle

But the fact that you released it

Tells me two things are for certain

They get paid for trashing people

I get paid 'cause I stay working

Dropped 'The Search' and

They emerge up outta nowhere

To the surface, just to peep behind the curtain

Throwing salt at all my burdens

I'm aware I shouldn't give this my attention

Life's a journey, I should just stay on my path

And learn to laugh, you think they heard me?

Ears are burning, put me out

Quiet, quiet, look around

Why don't they find someone way more

Interesting to write about?

Us, we're kinda boring, aren't we?

All we do is whine and pout

It's confusing, so amusing

How I argue with myself

Hello

I spit it was ease so leave it to me

Doubted, but you better believe

I'm on a rampage, hit 'em, with the record release

Depending the week, I'm probably gonna have to achieve

Another goal, let me go and I'm over the beat

I go into beast mode like I'm ready to feast

I'm fed up with these thieves tryna get me to bleed

They wanna see me take an L, yep, see what I mean?

How many records I gotta give you to get with the program?

Take it for granted, I'm 'bout to give you the whole plan

Open your mind up and take a look at the blueprint

Debate if you gotta, but gotta hold it with both hands

Pick at the bars, you gotta be smart

You really gotta dig in your heart

If you wanna get to the root of an issue

Plus I'm in the middle, could be dark and be difficult

But they pay off at the end if it can help you to get to it

Paid my dues, made it through

Spread the news, I'm on the loose

Make your moves, I need some room

Though he's cool, well, don't assume, don't assume, ay

I'm the truth, oh, they want some proof

Fear it, don't be rude, something new

Even when I lose, I make it look cool

Do the show, then we hit the room

Wife is looking, oh

What to do? I don't need the shades up to like the view

It's time to get back in the swing of things

When my life crashes, I'm not the guy that'll flee the scene

I'll take ownership and own it and raise my hand if it's me

Just remember though, I'm only a man, I'm a human being

Don't the see, shoot the breeze I'd rather just stay discrete

People claim they're in your corner but leave you in times of need

They don't listen do they? They don't listen to anything

I'll accept advice if it's not presented ignorantly

Look, costs are high, they multiply

They cause divides are force the fight

The poison I've been sipping on has quite the bite

It killed me twice, they rigged the lights

So y'all could see the parts of mine that aren't too bright

See, often I apologise and authorise the awful times

That pop up (Nate) like I'm right behind you

I'd advise you not to try and climb inside the mind like I do

Keep the rhyme book expedited, over nighted

Hold the tide in, hope the time is on my side

'Cause if it's not then I'll decide to override my own demise

I toe the lone too close and I can improvise and empathise

But recognise the fact that I could jeopardise and wreck your lives

You better give me your attention, the undivided

Paid my dues, made it through

Spread the news, I'm on the loose

Make your moves, I need some room

Though he's cool, well, don't assume, don't assume, ay

Paid my dues, made it through

Spread the news, I'm on the loose

Make your moves, I need some room

Though he's cool, well, don't assume, don't assume, ay