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Fake Friends
- //0:03 hook
- Everywhere I got fake friends
- People who treat me like a cent
- Then spend me, like I’m nobody
- But soon, they finna say sorry
- (Fake friends)
- //0:14 verse 1
- They degrade me
- Seem like they hate me
- I know that sounds really crazy
- Soon imma be the next slim shady
- And I’ll be able to flee
- They threaten me
- Say sorry and keep going
- Knowing what they’re doing
- Mentally abusing
- They leave me
- Put me underneath them
- I’m ditched
- They promise, and then forget about the promise
- They yell at me
- They ain't happy for me
- Some mistreat my family
- Don't lemme live happily
- I can't be free from 'em
- I wish I could be awesome, but I can't wit' 'em
- Yeah.
- //hook 0:45
- Everywhere I got fake friends
- People who treat me like a cent
- Then spend me, like I’m nobody
- But soon, they finna say sorry
- (Fake friends)
- //verse 2 0:55
- They betray me
- I wanna go a day without that happenin', see?
- They snitch on me
- Do emotional damage to me
- I make sacrifices for 'em
- But what do I get? Nothing, they treat me like [scum](worthless)
- Treat others above me
- Avoid me, like I'm venomous
- They ignore me
- [Box me up and put me away in storage](put me aside) don't you see, baby?
- Lately, they've been treating me like I'm crazy
- [They should look at themselves, ain't that lazy?](saying theyre crazy for thinking i am)
- They don’t care what I think
- They don’t even feel a strand of guilt!
- You know, I would diss ‘em, but there’s too many, get it?
- They mad cuz when around me get envy, baby!
- //hook 1:29
- Yeah
- Everywhere I got fake friends
- People who treat me like a cent
- Then spend me, like I’m nobody
- But soon, they finna say sorry
- (Fake friends)
- //verse 3 1:41
- They don’t know that I have feelings
- But they don’t know what it’s like thru my eyes, my heart, my brain, my experience
- They don’t know that I care
- So all the time I make a prayer…
- …for them to stop, hope they forgot…
- …’bout the stuff I have, ‘bout the stuff I’ll always have, yeah
- They don’t care ‘bout my opinion, makes me [cry like an onion](when you slice an onion you always cry, so I’m saying the way they treat me makes me cry.)
- I wish they’d put themselves in my shoes, and see what gives me the blues
- //hook 2:07
- Everywhere I got fake friends
- People who treat me like a cent
- Then spend me, like I’m nobody
- But soon, they finna say sorry
- (Fake friends)
- //outro 2:18
- Yeah, fake friends.
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