The Ways

Doin' what I gotta do, doin’ what I gotta do
This life is not for you
Uhh, woah woah woah woah

That's just the ways, yeah
I swear that's just the ways
I can’t change how I was raised
You know that's just the ways
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah yeah

I overthink too much
That's just how I was raised
I'm dealin' with choices that no one
Around me ever had to make
The result of going down the
Road less paved without ways
That’s just the ways, that’s just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah yeah
Dad cheated on Mom, that’s how I was raised
So how do you expect me
To have different ways?
Broken marriages somehow get inherited
I'm embarrassed to say, but that's just
The ways, that's just the ways, yeah
So how do you expect me to be financial
And manage the money that everyone
’round me can't handle?
How do you expect me to be a leader
If I never seen one?

Cause that's just the ways, yeah yeah
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways
I can't change how I was raised
Blowing weed
Yellin' "Fuck the police" every other day
Seen fiends to crack every day
That's just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah yeah
Cause that's just the ways
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways

At least I thought so until I
Got it from a different angle
Back when the closest thing to Arizona
Was the much mucho mangos
I was drained, though
Going through life no strings attached
Still gettin' tangled
Before I knew I was the one that
Realized the strings was handled by angles
Thinkin' I don't wanna have a kid in this
World and it might go to waste
Having a son with a gun on his waist
Falling victim to the system
That we can't escape
Stuck in the city like a never ending maze
Treating problems like they ain't problems
And they a phase raise cause he can't take
Advice I never gave, yeah yeah
Cause if Dad treated Mom
With a little respect, yeah
Then he gon' grow up and find
The right girl to protect
Cause family businesses ands good
Marriages somehow get inherited
When life give you that message, it's
Up to you to translate, yeah yeah

Cause that's just the ways
That's just the ways that's just the ways
I realize I can't change how I was raised
And give somebody something they never gave
Cause that's just the ways
That's just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah
That's just the ways
I ain't gotta be stuck in my ways
That's just the ways, yeah yeah
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways way, way
It's like this for you way, way
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah, yeah (ways)
Oh ah oh ah
That's just the ways, that's just the ways
That's just the ways, yeah, yeah