(Intro)
Yeah
I'mma take you a little journey right quick
Follow me
(Hook)
She said she wants the old me
The one that never confessed to being lonely
The guy that shied away when she would hold me
The dude that said if you real shorty then show me
Girl that's the old me
I don't think you know me
Nowadays I wait and I take it slowly
Said that she got a man, well, I'm glad she told me
Back in the days I would have treated her coldly
I promise that's the old me
(Verse)
Shallow Hal, I like the cute faces
I like to have girls in more than two places
Different cities, a few races
Women with bodies tighter than new braces
But I can admit some of them had flaws
Cottage cheese in the thighs, stomach was mad soft
But I wasn't perfect I now that a** course
Groupie told I wasn't working
It filled my path up
Tryna find happiness searchin' in a bottle
Clubbin', gettin' drunk and always flirtin' with a model
Hopin' that the DJ shouts me out ?????
So she can think I'm halfway famous
I wasn't seeing clear
Shorty had a man, husband or fiancée
I'm looking to score, like LeBron James
But like Bron used to do with the final seconds
I let someone else have it
I'm confessing that was the past
Writing these songs
About being cold, about being wrong
Player mentality, now, it's all gone
I treated the other gender like pawns
Imagine you trying to take someone else's queen
And you hatin'
Chess move strategies with everything you're saying
Breaking down barriers and looking for a way in
And the funny thing is dude don't even know he's playing
And he's losing
Now, I'm sittin' on this couch, a pretty baby mother
I'm up inside her house
Hintin' that she feels she want to put something in her mouth
Even though she claims that this is not what she's about
So she starts to tell me that I'm frontin' on her stupidly
And he don't treat her right, she's just using me
And I could walk away, it's like there's two of me
Cause now I'm besides myself, not who I used to be
But even if her man is in another chick
This instant, beating it and loving it
I still think it's an unfair punishment
To know that your wifey is somewhere getting other dick
But the old me never confessed to being lonely
I shied away when she would hold me
I said if you will shorty then show me
Girl that's the old me
I don't think you know me
Nowadays I wait and I take it slowly
Said that she got a man, I'm glad she told me
Back in the days I would have treated her coldly
I promise that's the old me
(Outro)
That's the old me
Yeah
I thank you all
For listening
Haha
It's a beautiful struggle
Finally evolve
I'm almost there
Yeah