Do You Know What It Feels Like?
• Written by Big_RESS
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Lyrics:
Big_RESS's Notes
One of the reasons why I made this song is because I wanna show people and the rap game that there isn’t just one kind of major struggle out there
I know what all dat feels like, do you know what it feels like?
Well why don’t you wait and see?
Do you know what it feels like (to have a sorry excuse for a parent)
Do you know what it feels like (to be tricked into thinkin
That things were gonna turn around)
Do you know what it feels like (to hear shit like “your struggle isn’t real”)
Do you know what it feels like (to be afraid)
I been denied basic rights
Like it was turnin off lights
I hate to say
that I barely know the struggle
Cuz I never lost friends or family
to violence and hard drugs
And my hood neva had a lotta thugs
But there’s a different struggle I know
And that’s the pain of not getting it yo
It’s how I can’t deal wit rushed events
I can’t just find some shit
it’s a sad sense
There’s some shit I been wantin
for a long time
I still don’t have it,
hell it might be a lifetime
At this rate I’m so irate
I been ignored and ghosted
Hell I was even roasted
I been fearin not gettin
To where I’m aimin to be
That’s way too real can’t you see
Do you know what it feels like (to have a sorry excuse for a parent)
Do you know what it feels like (to be tricked into thinking that things were gonna turn around)
Do you know what it feels like (to hear shit like “your struggle isn’t real”)
Do you know what it feels like (to be afraid)
Do you know what it feels like
To get yelled at for the smallest of reasons
That’s a recipe for many sad seasons
It’s so unnecessary and evil
Like a punishment that’s medieval
Try to kick me out and Ima go pow pow
Cuz I ain’t lettin nobody
tell me where I can’t stay
The opposite of that is not way
Even though I’m from the suburbs
That don’t mean I never dealt wit struggles
Cuz in da suburbs
it’s all different
neva saw nobody get shot
Or any illicit shit get bought
But I had some kinda trap
That I can’t escape from just yet
Just a cycle of gettin shat on
And not havin what I deserve
In addition to a shitty learnin curve
I been left on seen
Can you even relate?
It came from a place of hate
always had to deal wit bein rejected
And get redundant shit injected
Into my fed up brain
There ain’t much to gain
From living where I live
And nobody wants to give
Do you know what it feels like (to have a sorry excuse for a parent)
Do you know what it feels like (to be tricked into thinking that things were gonna turn around)
Do you know what it feels like (to hear shit like “your struggle isn’t real”)
Do you know what it feels like (to be afraid)
I guess errythang is uncertain
Pullin back tha curtain
And I’m observin
Myself and I’m hesitatin
Mentally debatin
On what to verbally express
And the card to address
I didn’t expect the worst
And look how that turned out
My mental state burned out
I fell under false optimism
Stuck wit forced pessimism
Every now and then I feel on edge
I carved out a wedge
For myself and my own dealins
So I can handle my demons
Lookin at my own eyes
And what I see is pain, a dream
And a quest to redeem
Do you know what it feels like (to have a sorry excuse for a parent)
Do you know what it feels like (to be tricked into thinking that things were gonna turn around)
Do you know what it feels like (to hear shit like “your struggle isn’t real”)
Do you know what it feels like (to be afraid)
You Ever gotten sicka reality
To the point where you wanted to sleep eternally
So you could live in a world of your own reality
Cuz I have and that’s just pullin me
Down to the low points of my life (again)
And no I ain’t playin pretend
Do you know what it feels like
To refuse to give someone up
Only to be told that that refusal is mostly wrong
Cuz I went back to a place when I thought about one of my crushes bein wit me
And it was so jarring for me
My eyes got all wide
Couldn’t hide it if I tried
