Breaking Me Down (Feat. Jesse Howard)

Hm
Now you're breaking me down (breaking me down)
Breaking me down

You put your life on the line
Just to try to get a fix
With the ones that you love for a bump and a hit
You can lie to yourself, but you could never forget
Selling everything you own because you're drowning in debt
I sit back and reflect on my past and regrets
All this pain in my heart that I've come to accept
Put my faith in the Lord, but I'm losing my steps
Only time I'm ever happy is when I'm walking with death

I feel pain for the single mothers out here struggling
Man, they're working two jobs and it still ain't cutting it
With a deadbeat baby daddy too worried about J's
Can't make support payments, but screaming he's getting paid
'Cause it's a cold world but realities worse
And loyalty always stops in the back of that hearse
Now your best friend, the same one that you grew up with
Make a move on your girl the first chance that he get (damn)

Fighting all these demons on the daily
Depression got me feeling real crazy
Running through the dark without a light
Feeling like a thief in the night
Thinking about the time I spent
Trying to get the bag for the rent
Sacrifice it all for my kids
They don't really wanna see you win
Everybody really ain't your friend
Nah, you only got yourself in the end

Been lost and been found
Been broke and torn down
Trying to swim but I drown (Drown)
All this pain is so loud (So loud)
They keep breaking me down
They ain't breaking me down
Life ain't breaking me down
Breaking me down

This ain't for the views and the likes
This is for the ones who's had a hard knock life
Struggle every day just to try to pay the lights
While you walk around smiling with a pack full of knifes
I remember way back when with no heat in the house
We would open up the oven, then we'd sleep on the couch
Had the pots on the stove just to warm up the bath
With a bowl of ramen noodles, and we split them in half

Feeling like I lost my ways
So I drink every day just to hide my pain
Friends turn to foes
Snakes turn to ghosts
Man, I been through it all
Yeah, the highs and the lows
The ups and the downs
I done turned it around
In a sea full of lies
I'm just trying not to drown
With my back to the wall
And my feet on the ground
Doing everything I gotta do to make my momma proud, yeah

Been lost and been found
Been broke and torn down
Trying to swim but I drown (drown)
All this pain is so loud (so loud)
They keep breaking me down
They ain't breaking me down
Life ain't breaking me down
Breaking me down

Been lost and been found
Been broke and torn down
Trying to swim but I drown (drown)
All this pain is so loud (so loud)
They keep breaking me down
They ain't breaking me down
Life ain't breaking me down
Breaking me down