Jay Staples - Could've Been Lyrics

Could've been a doctor
Could've won Oscar
But now I'm writing poems
Tryna get to the dollas
Chasing after dreams even though I'm losing sleep
When I finally doze off I realize I that could bleed
Cause I'm just human I'm no better
Still got bonds that I wish I could severe
Still got bills that I wish I could pay
Got baby on way and I can't tell her wait
This is life ain't no retries
When you die ain't no revive
Before I die I pray that god let me teach mine
Cause it's cold world
And we can't stop time
Words can't explain what I'm feeling on the inside
Can't stop now

Could've been a lawyer
Could've been cop
Cause ima loyal til the day my heart stop
And that's facts
Ask my baby mama
Keep the drama I just wanna be a father to heaven sent daughter
Understand I'm just tryna be a man in this world
That's all I wanna be .. a d.a.d
Something I ain't seen much
But I would I love to be one
And once start this I will never ever give up
And that's stamped like ya piece mail
Feel my dreams at my fingernails
I can taste it now
I can't settle now
This for my girl and my seed on the way now
I can't stop now

Could've been should've been never been
I feel apart of me already been
Been the hero been the zero and it's evident
I want it all I ain't settling
I want it all I ain't settling
Where I'm from I should've die a long time
Bodies drop but these cop they just come and go
No arrest it look better when we kill our own
Off the hook better listen to the dial tone
It's on the walls like Basquiat's
While you were busy chasing thots I was chasing yachts
They say it really ain't the same when reach the top
Hope not hope my family get to see the top that's facts nigga