Flashbacks-Deante' Hitchcock/Miguel/St. Beauty

[ti:Flashbacks (Explicit)] [ar:Deante' Hitchcock/Miguel/St. Beauty] [al:BETTER (Deluxe) (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Flashbacks (Explicit) - Deante' Hitchcock/Miguel/St. Beauty [00:02.06]Lyrics by：Deante' Hitchcock/Brandon Phillips-Taylor/David Fuller/Miguel Pimentel/Alexandria Rosemond [00:04.12]Composed by：Deante' Hitchcock/Brandon Phillips-Taylor/David Fuller/Miguel Pimentel/Alexandria Rosemond [00:06.18]Bad b***h wild s**t [00:09.65]Just wake up and boom bap [00:13.57]Just f**ked up [00:16.43]Aight [00:19.18]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:20.51]Ay ooh yeah [00:22.53]Flashbacks to that laundromat with my momma [00:24.47]I was young and wildin' out on the wave and karma comin' [00:27.53]They say the first child should [00:28.66]Pay for the sins of the father [00:30.16]So I bought 'em out to Mars and f**k it [00:32.10]Look uh [00:33.21]Tell Nick I'm sorry I had to do [00:34.77]What I couldn't take [00:36.00]If I don't kill 'em I'm sorry shawty [00:37.55]We ain't gon' make it [00:38.79]Girl I done seen my lowest lows [00:40.25]I mean low as the basement [00:41.32]Tryna reflect without usin' a mirror [00:43.08]'Cause I'm too scared to face it [00:44.29]What am I chasin' [00:44.93]And will it be fearful once I catch it [00:46.86]I need some straightforward answers [00:48.20]'Cause I been livin' backwards [00:49.64]Can't feel the pastor when he talk about upcomin' rapture [00:52.11]Preachin' money's the root of all evil [00:53.62]But ask for money after [00:55.04]So comin' up we ain't have it to give [00:56.77]But we still gave it [00:57.85]The church was makin' a killin' of our lil' savings [01:00.47]But you can't put a price on faith [01:01.98]That's how my momma phrased it [01:03.12]But mom if this house of the Lord [01:04.60]How can we not appraise it [01:06.06]I was young and confused with nothin' to lose [01:08.65]Better to be human than God word to Langston Hughes [01:11.09]Ironic when your brain start the spark and try and defuse [01:13.63]But my n***a the only choice that [01:14.99]We have in life is to choose so I'm choosin' [01:17.82]I got a homegirl convinced that everything we see [01:20.24]Is tricks and this life is just an illusion [01:22.07]Some days I entertain it I know that thinkin' is dangerous [01:24.49]Just be feelin' like it's [01:25.57]So much more it's hard to explain it [01:27.36]But I do believe in God in this uh [01:29.17]But I know the even when [01:30.08]I'm strayin' far away from my path [01:32.12]There's a reason that you have it [01:34.06]Word to my boy from TDE that I met in them sessions [01:36.40]This is the Revenge of the Dreamer [01:38.17]I seen a rose grow from out of [01:39.61]That concrete yeah right there up my block [01:41.54]Right on the corner where DeVonte got shot [01:43.57]And then it hit me [01:44.68]One day eventually things'll change [01:46.27]And maybe somethin' beautiful can rise [01:48.22]And thrive from all that pain so RIP [01:50.49]I'm sure as a sigil [01:53.61]That I believe [01:56.21]It's hard to believe in anything [02:01.42]With all that I've been through [02:04.50]All that I've seen [02:07.29]Can't just believe in anything [02:12.07]Much to my surprise [02:13.77]I'm old enough to know [02:16.37]I can't do anything on my own [02:21.41]So I believe in God [02:24.67]I've cried enough to know [02:27.31]I'm trying every day to hold on hold on [02:34.03]No one [02:36.82]Ever gonna do it for you quite like [02:40.34]Quite like you [02:42.35]Quite like Quite like you [02:44.92]No one [02:47.65]Ever gonna do it for you quite like [02:51.21]Quite like you [02:53.21]Quite like Quite like you [02:55.85]That's why it's hard to put my faith in anyone else [02:58.96]So I don't put my faith in nobody else [03:02.05]Though I know that we all need some help [03:05.05]Me too [03:12.70]Is any of that true yeah [03:16.74]Uh [03:18.70]Ay uh ay [03:21.29]I know I ain't been all that you expect from me ay [03:27.91]Still talkin' to God [03:29.09]I been so lost so low I need you desperately [03:35.43]Still talkin' to God [03:36.64]I swear I heard them say the truth will set you free [03:43.00]Still talkin' to God [03:44.24]If there's one thing I learned [03:46.94]I can't be nothin' else but me [03:50.72]Still talkin' to still talkin' to still talkin' to