Ay, lemme kick it to you right quick man   Not on some gangsta shit man on some real shit   Anybody who been through the same thing   I'm sure you feel the same way      Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone   And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone, dead and      Ever had one of them days wish you would have stayed home   Run into a group of niggas who gettin' their hate on   You walk by, they get wrong, you reply then shit get blown   Way out of proportion way past discussion   Just you against them, pick one then rush them   Figure you get jumped here that's next   They don't wanna stop there now they bustin'      Now you gushin', ambulance rushin'   You to the hospital with a bad concussion   Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine   Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound   Never mind that now you lucky to be alive   Just thinkin' it all started fussin' wit three guys   Nigga pride in the way but your pride is the way you can fuck   Around get shot down any day      Niggas die everyday, all little bullshit   Dope money, dice games, ordinary hood shit   Could this be cuz of hip-hop music   Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?   Usually niggas don't know what to do when they back against the wall   So they just start shootin'   For red or for blue or for blow I guess   From Bankhead at the old projects      No more stress, now I'm straight   Now I get it, now I take time to think   Before I make mistakes just for my family stake   That part of me left yesterday   The heart of me is strong today   No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away      Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone   And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone, dead and      I ain't neva been scared, I live through tragic   Situations could been dead lookin' back at it   Most of that shit didn't even have to happen   But you don't think about it when you out there trappin'   In the apartments hangin', smokin' and rappin'   Niggas start shit next thing we know we cappin'   Get locked up then didn't even get mad   Now I think about that what a life I had      Most of that shit look back just laugh   Some shit still look back get sad   Thinkin' my home boy still be around   Had I not hit the nigga in the mouth that time   I won that fight I lost that war   I could still see my nigga walkin' out that door   Who would of thought I'd never see Philant no more   Got enough dead homies I don't want no more      Cuz a nigga his jump cost me more   I'd a took that ass whoopin' out for sure   Now think before I risk my life   Take them chances to get my stripes   A nigga put his hands on me alright   Otherwise stand there talk shit all night   Cuz I hit you and you sue me   I shoot you get locked up poor me      No more stress now I'm straight   Now I get it now I take time to think   Before I make mistake just for my family stake   That part of me left yesterday   The heart of me is strong today   No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away      Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone   And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone      I turn my head to the east, I don't see nobody by my side   I turn my head to the west, still nobody in sight   So I turn my head to the north, swallow that pill that they call pride   That old me's dead and gone but the new me will be alright   I turn my head to the east, I don't see nobody by my side   I turn my head to the west, still nobody in sight   So I turn my head to the north, swallow that pill that they call pride   That old me's dead and gone but the new me will be alright, 'cause      Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone   And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long   Just tryin' to find my way back home   But the old me's dead and gone   Dead and gone, dead and