Paycheck to Paycheck Lyrics

If you ain't know

Life come with a paywall

Doesn't matter if you stand down or you stand tall

Take a look around

It ain't fair

Not at all

Discerning the reason doesn't make me less pissed off

And it's pay to play

Don't depend upon your skill

Even if you've got the strength, endurance, and the will

Better put some more stats on your luck

I'm not tryna be a downer

I'm just keeping it a buck

Some people are blessed with a different hand

I keep my cards close

Wonder what would happen if I shuffle them

I'm blessed with the pen

But starving artists been a thing since forever

At present and past tense

Money can't buy happiness but it can sure sustain it

Finally felt the feeling of a suicidal claimant

All this stress could disappear now if I claim it

Can't pay to live so their life becomes the payment

You gotta give me grace

Look, I'm just tryna get by

Life is so hard

I've gotta figure out why

Guess it's on me

Wanna be free

Imma try

Uh, yeah, look

'Cause I'm tired of living paycheck to paycheck

Crazy how some people living coast to coast

We coasting on a paycheck

All while doing the most

Listening to the music where they brag and boast

Vicariously living through the host

Cole said there's no life better than yours

Then you see people walk with their $5K Dior

And I've never been one to be materialistic

I just need enough so I can stay wholly artistic

'Cause all it takes is one sad car breakdown

All it takes is one forgotten bill right now

Rent getting high and I'm lower than the ground

My mind taking me places I'll never be found

They've got money to blow

No care in the world

I wanna be enough so I can care for my world

Give my parents everything they want in the world

And do it in a time while they're still here in this world

You gotta give me grace

Look, I'm just tryna get by

Life is so hard

I've gotta figure out why

Guess it's on me

Wanna be free

Imma try

Uh, yeah, look

'Cause I'm tired of living paycheck to paycheck

My landlord had calculated

And laughed at my music money

Regulating

Income based housing got me aggravated

All I can afford at the current date it's

Wild how I've gotta choose between my mental health

And physical well being

I don't wanna ask for help

Nine years straight in the business of food

Tryna figure how I can stretch mine too

Donating plasma never sounded so fruitful

They advertise saving lives

Nah, man, I'm saving mine

I guess that's a life

That's a loophole

Two birds with one stone

Yeah, that's the cheat code

For those who earned it

I get that you wanna churn it

Agitate the C.R.E.A.M.

Until you burn it

The grass is looking greener on that side of the fence

You truly learn the value of money when you don't have sh

You gotta give me grace

Look, I'm just tryna get by

Life is so hard

I've gotta figure out why

Guess it's on me

Wanna be free

Imma try

Uh, yeah, look

'Cause I'm tired of living paycheck to paycheck