Calm down, calm down   Baby just calm down   She use to tell me to calm down   Moms use to tell me to calm down   Baby just calm down      She use to tell me to calm down   Moms use to tell me to calm down   (She would pray that I would)   Baby just calm down   Calm down      Look, I was such a lost soul   Just wanted to be down with something   Look at your son now mommy   I amounted to something you couldn't figure out   What I had messed with the streets for   'Cause you saw my genius without a SAT score   I took drugs and laced it with things   But you a addict yourself   For you I was people, places and things   (How the fuck you thought)   Angel dust use to have me in the hallways twurked   I tried to hide it, but Visine didn't always work      I needed someone to blame in my mind   I thought if you and dad never used dope   I would a came out fine   And so I hit you hard when you threw in advice   Like what I want to talk to you about you ruined my life   You're the reason why I ended up a con and I knew it   The reason I filled my body with embomin fluid, mommy   You the reason that my life's gone illegal   The reason I'm kinda different   Don't think like normal people   Not calm      She use to tell me to calm down   Moms use to tell me to calm down   (Use to pray that I would)   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up 'cause we gone make it   She use to tell me to calm down   Moms use to tell me to calm down   (You got to understand what I was going through)   Baby just calm down      Everything's gonna be alright   She use to tell me to calm down   Moms use to tell me to calm down   (But a nigga wouldn't)   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up   'Cause we gone make it y'all      Listen, ain't shit like seeing your moms cryin' on the floor   Knowing you the reason why she ain't aight no more   But so young, I was like whatever   You use to chase me through the house   With the knife like get your life together   Fucking drugs, how could I ever amp on you   And what made me think that I could lay my hands on you   I'm not surprised that you mad at me   Much as you hated my father   Your youngest son is just like his daddy      Mommy I live life rude, how could you not understand it   On the same note I'm just like you   I got moms sensitivity, my fathers balls   His humor, his g yet my heart is yours   Fuck school, 'cause I had my major   Come to grips that it ain't so much the drugs   It's the addict behavior   (No)   Was it the dic charge, the cut that came with it   Wasn't really the smokin', but the rush that came with it   (Wasn't calm people)      She use to tell me to calm down   Calm down   (But a nigga wouldn't)   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up   'Cause we gone make it y'all   (Do it with me people)   Calm down, calm down   (Try to understand it)   Baby just calm down      (Those kind of things)   Everything's gonna be alright   Calm down   (Just bare with me for a, for a brief moment y'all)   Calm down   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up 'cause we gone make it y'all      I felt so alone, I had a crew but so what   Then when Angela stabbed me guess who showed up   And when people said I?d always be ill and twisted   And when the therapist had told us that the pills would fix it   Was sick of bein' sick, I was finally hurt   With all the prayin' that you did ma, it finally worked   God gave you a son back, I won't offend you again   Won't let the disease turn me against you again      Use to be high as ever   (But I)   Joey Jr. got his life together   As a result, now we tighter than ever   So blessed, so grateful to be seein' tomorrow   (see the whole world)   That's why I can't take a drink, not if even a swallow   I can't picture me twisted like what I'm a do now   Haters I can't stop yet my mothers to proud   Secure now, don't need to be down with nothing   Look at your son now mommy   I amounted to somethin'   I'm so calm      Calm down, calm down   (But a nigga wouldn't calm down)   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up 'cause we gone make it y'all   (Hold up)   She use to tell me to calm down   (Use to pray that I would)   Calm down   (But I couldn't, I couldn't, couldn't do it)   Baby just calm down      (Nothing heals like time people)   Everything's gonna be alright   (Understand that)   Calm down, calm down   (Fucking miracle)   Baby just calm down   You gotta hold your head up   'Cause we gone make it y'all   (They said I wouldn't reach 21 y'all, I'm still standing)      Calm down   Thanks ma   Calm down   I couldn't do it without you   Calm down, calm down   You are appreciated   Calm down   Fa sho   Calm down   It's a slow process y'all   One day at a time though   To get beautiful