[ Featuring Dj Red ]
"Day 1"
Intro: (Court cudio from E.i.'s prison sentencing)
-Chorus-
"Hold my head up high tears I've cried cll the things I been through
Not a day goes by in my life
I'm thankful for my issues
This is for my Day Ones hold me down when I really didn't have nun Down bad and I'm plotting bout to take sum
Feel my pain you don't know where I dun came from
Yea, yea, yea
Verse 1
"cll my pain it had a purpose
I couldn't see it I was way too busy hurting
I try to hid it but it lurk beneath the surface
Deep inside I swore that I was worthless even gave up searching, yea cll that depression it had me sick
That rage is building in my heart that means I'm quick to flip
I gave up on myself and didn't even know I quit
Settled for the less cuz I was clinging to the counterfeit
Path to destruction and act like it was nothing
Hang with my dawg older cousins they introduced me to thuggin
Got addicted to hustling and the squad I was running with
So the street life I'm loving it I got caught up in luxury"
-Chorus-
"Hold my head up high tears I've cried
Cll the things I been through
Not a day goes by in my life
I'm thankful for my issues
This is for my Day Ones hold me down when I really didn't have nun Down bad and I'm plotting bout to take sum
Feel my pain you don't know where I dun came from
Yea, yea, yea
Verse 2
"cll the consequences came half my life in the prison system resulting from the game, yea listen I was fiendin for the fame tried to find my identity in what other people think
I abandoned my children I know I badly had damaged them
Worst of my failures hope one day feel like a man again
Claim to be real but then act fake like a mannequin
Personal problem but it affects the whole family man
Hard to just sleep at night
Guilt be tearing me up inside
Hope one day I will get this right
Before I throw away my whole life
-Chorus-
"Hold my head up high tears I've cried
Cll the things I been through
Not a day goes by in my life
I'm thankful for my issues
This is for my Day Ones hold me down when I really didn't have nun Down bad and I'm plotting bout to take sum
Feel my pain you don't know where I dun came from
Yea, yea, yea
Verse 3
I found my peace inside of tragedy
When it all fell apart and everyone abandoned me, yea
I guess it took a couple causalities
Wake me up and get my attention to see what's happening
You know the feeling you can't take back what you just committed You wake up and you 30 not a dream this is what you liven
You start to realize there's a problem and its time to deal with
Its time to bring it to the Savior let Him start the healing
I know the feeling of relentless pain drive you insane
But there is purpose for the madness let me just explain
It drives you to your potential and forces you to change
So won't you bring out to Jesus let Him break off those chains"
Outro: (E.i. talking on a prison phone call)
"This is...THE INCcRCERcTION"
