Don't Kill the Messenger Video (MV)

Lived inside the darkest deeps, I lost a part of me when I buried the man who had father'd me
Years had passed, I felt so bad I held my past to conquer me
I never went back home again with my father laid to rest, it felt so wrong to me
I pushed away the people who cared for me and talked to me
Became a man that's hard to be and lost some sleep
I started drinking more, avoiding all the thoughts that haunted me
Went out flipping drugs, hung with thugs who were always armed to teeth
I was selfish drinking all my sorrows thinking of no other
I was waking in Seattle with my face inside the gutter
Grieved in all the worst of ways and blacked out through the summer
It's a different life I lived, I'll never tell my kin let alone my mother
My father's graves where I left my heart in ache
Winter came, didn't have a home to stay, na
Felt the weight, but the pressure fed the flame
I sit and pray I see the light in darkest days, na
I promise you to keep my roots, I never knew how much you could do for me, yeah
I promise you to keep my roots, I never knew how much you could do for me, yeah
I was the boss that topped the charts, but then I quit my writing and recording
Grinding every morning, felt so f*cking lost without my art
I made the guap but lost my heart, only felt alive when I was snorting, lost my mind When I was mourning, got these walls around my heart
Trust nobody but my team, love nobody but these G's
You could only love the streets but I know it ain't loving me
It's sad but true, I was doing everything I had to do
In a place where you watch the colour of your flannel to
Seen my brothers lose they mind huffing lines and stunting G's
Watched them all start changing slowly getting money, running streets
Either get got how you get it and don't live again to tell it
Or get caught trynna sell it and live your life as a felon
My father's graves where I left my heart in ache
Winter came, didn't have a home to stay, na
Felt the weight, but the pressure fed the flame
I sit and pray I see the light in darkest days, na
I promise you to keep my roots, I never knew how much you could do for me, yeah
I promise you to keep my roots, I never knew how much you could do for me, yeah