Its a long way home At the end of the road I'll be pavin' my own way To the top I'll be here to stay So take my name Remember this face Keep the change and have a nice day And live for the moment not by the past Homie live each day like it's your last All my life I couldn't fit in like a bad shoe I was always to square, too cube Too tall, too weird, too blue Forget them high school hotties Now I'm too cool I guess I came a long way from that young kid The schools most popular lame No friends No style, no clothes, no ends Just a bed, fell asleep and never woke up again Yeah, and my last prayer Was don't ever let me end up Like the people that's down here Cause the ones that fear change Be the ones that don't care Look at themselves And see somebody else in the mirror But you could always pick me out of the crowd Loud mouth with my very own style And what I know now Is don't ever pretend And live every single day like you won't see it again So take my name Remember this face Keep the change and have a nice day And live for the moment not by the past Homie live each day like it's your last And if you only had 24 hours And 1400 minutes Before your dreams gone Then you better go live it 'Cause whatever you love Could be taken away So live like it's your dying day I dedicate this To my teachers that never believed in me And the mother that conceived But ended up leaving me I just wish y'all could see me smile This big grin's on the TV now Uh, and I took it from the bottom to the top From the holes in my socks Ramen noodles in the pot Used to rob 'em on the block Now they spot me in the drop Middle finger up And that ain't gon' stop I used to take orders And now I make bets I used to scrub floors And now I sign checks I used to push carts Now I push songs Yeah I used to be there Now I am so gone I fired myself Found a job myself Established my name Then I signed myself And what I tell myself Is you did this by yourself And when I'm on so long I'll be by myself I'm gone So take my name Remember this face Keep the change and have a nice day And live for the moment not by the past Homie live each day like it's your last And if you only had 24 hours And 1400 minutes Before your dream's gone Then you better go live it 'Cause whatever you love Could be taken away So live like its your dying day I wish I could see their faces When they heard your boy spitting Wish I could know what they thinking When they heard my first hit 'Cause I remember them wishing That I wouldn't get big Now I bet they wishing they wouldn't have said that shit I came out of a dying city Brought back life Everything they said I couldn't do I did 'bout twice Multiply that by the battles that we popped each night That equals out to a celebration Bitches more ice Make a toast to the underdogs Toast to the team Toast to the fact we this close to the dream Pour one for my exes Used to talk reckless But now I push Benz's And rock Rolex's Came from the city And until they come and get me Turn around and see the whole east side still with me And that's how we living Ya mans don't change Look its still the kid Still cant tell me god damn thing So take my name Remember this face Keep the change and have a nice day And live for the moment not by the past Homie live each day like it's your last And if you only had 24 hours And 1400 minutes Before your dream's gone Then you better go live it 'Cause whatever you love Could be taken away So live like its your dying day Its a long way home At the end of the road I'll be pavin' my own way To the top I'll be here to stay So take my name Remember this face Keep the change and have a nice day And live for the moment not by the past Homie live each day like it's your last