Stakes Are High Lyrics

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time

The weight of the world carries the pillar of success

Ain't been through hard times, then you don't know how it feel to be blessed

No working part time, I clock in before the sun up

I set the bar high and see who I can strive to come up

Backflipping my way to a bag, no acrobat

But I bent over backwards just to get the shit that I have

Slept on the floor, no mattress, before I had an address

I was at Sosas' crib on the Ave, like six months and a half

Barely scraping by, a couple dollars here and there, what it take to get high?

Don't know what I'm doing, say a prayer to the man in the sky

And if he hear you, he can answer you clearly or not,

I guess I'm here for a while

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time

No disrespect to the people at the top, don't try to slit my neck

Not stepping on no toes unless they frame me as a civil threat

You see how they did E.S., they scared of you intellect

Oh, who knew? Go figure that, been this way for how long?

And every year it just get it worse, it seem to pile on

Don't know how much it take for me to wake and put this smile on

Put 'em down the road I walk, they couldn't last a mile on

Can't trust no one so I might die alone

Heart froze, solid, ice cold, I don't mind though

I ain't been normal since high school

I'm too lost and don't know how to find hope

I know, hard pill to swallow

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time

The stakes are high but if I play my cards right, then who knows

Maybe I can turn this nothing into something, something to think about

I'm on the grind but somehow I'm just barely skating by

Can't afford to take my time