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When I was 15 they said "Get on that real shit
 Stop rapping 'bout the moon, there ain't no room for that Neil shit"
 They just assume that I'm in my room
 With posters of galaxies and that's why I'm closer to fantasy
 Nah brotha
 It wasn't spaceships I heard
 Only screams of her
 Her meaning my mother, father was slurring his words
 So when I wrote words like 'space'
 It's metaphor for safe, and stars are better places
 Get it?
 Both of my parents didn't
 The language barriers kept them from knowing anything about me
 All the things that I'd tell them would sound American
 I sell them, so why would they ever doubt me?
 I will continue my journey until my late teens
 An out of body experience, I would take 3
 Sniffing, smoking, having myself a space dream
 Feeling alone, can't connect to all of these earthlings
 What's a man without his word
 If we ain't got a bond then what's it all worth
 I can tell you the truth, but damn, the truth hurts
 As long as I'm living, I'mma give you my word
 Word
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 What's a man without his word
 When I turned 20 they told me "Get on that hard shit
 We don't want to hear about all of that broken heart shit"
 Money over bitches is all I heard
 Heard falling in love was only for herbs herbs
 So I spit about stealing your girl and how she want me
 Way I'm beating that pussy up, sounding hella thirsty
 Then it occurred that it ain't her that I wanted
 But the validation of all of my G's on the curb
 All that shit that I rapped about
 My dad, he had acted out
 The secret women that prevented us from a happy house
 As long as it was catchy I turned it into a chorus
 Pretending that my momma and sister would just ignore it
 So I yelled (bitches, bitches, bitches)
 Words becoming (contradictions, 'dictions, 'dictions)
 Now I can't label it a fiction
 It's sounding too convincing
 It is what it is when you say it with conviction
 What's a man without his word
 If we ain't got a bond then what's it all worth
 I can tell you the truth, but damn, the truth hurts
 As long as I'm living, I'mma give you my word
 Word
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 What's a man without his word
 They find real life boring
 Fantasy is corny
 Afraid of exploring, need someone to do it for 'em
 Fake shit do sound real when it's recorded
 So that fake shit sells to this country every morning
 And the real shit fails and gets put inside for storage
 But the real will prevail when the country's in mourning
 Word
 When you don't mean it you say 'Word'
 Word
 All it's become is just a four letter word
 What's a man without his word
 If we ain't got a bond then what's it all worth
 I can tell you the truth, but damn, the truth hurts
 As long as I'm living, I'mma give you my word
 Word
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 If I said I meant it and I'mma do it, do it
 What's a man without his word
 What's a man without his word
 If we ain't got a bond then what's it all worth
 I can tell you the truth, but damn, the truth hurts
 As long as I'm living, I'mma give you my word
 Word
 What's a man without his word