Storybook Ending (feat. Seafood)

I remember we were kings of the blacktop Always lookin' for new things, new ways to act up Only saw the real world through a laptop, damn Life isn't all what it's cracked up to be I remember bein' ranked by our kicks Only question in my mind was When we hoppin' on the sticks? I wasn't ready for reality to hit me like some bricks That a happy ever after was just a bag of tricks 3 o'clock in the mornin', yeah my door it swung open Both my parents in a frenzy, my little brother they were holdin' He was cryin' so loud, both his lips, they were swollen I have never seen my parents so defeated, so broken Now this next part of the story, no one ever wants to tell When we found out there was a battle goin' on between his cells I don't really like to share, I keep my feelings to myself But my first time without my brother made my life a living hell Readin' off the page of my own story Look inside my book No happy ever after, fighting for glory Reality's a thief, my life it took Try to go to see the world through my eyes It's all good man, stop pretending Don't you think the journey's hard enough? We all deserve a storybook ending Let me take y'all back in time with this image I'ma draw My momma grippin' to her heart as she leaned up against the wall Now I'ma tell you all the story of when I almost lost it all Why it gotta be my mom, why couldn't I take the fall This the woman that had always had my back And to see her so defenseless with her heart under attack I was frozen up with fear, ashamed of the strength that I lacked Why was I the one afraid? Well just look at the facts Got down on my knees and to the Lord I had plead They said another minute late and she would've surely been dead When she woke up, she couldn't keep her thoughts in her head She had to spend her own birthday in a hospital bed Fast forward a couple years later me and God made amends Got told my dad has a tumor, he has surgery in ten I didn't understand, I couldn't comprehend Was this shit really happening all over again? Readin' off the page of my own story Look inside my book No happy ever after, fighting for glory Reality's a thief, my life it took Try to go to see the world through my eyes It's all good man, stop pretending Don't you think the journey's hard enough? We all deserve a storybook ending Readin' off the page of my own story Look inside my book No happy ever after, fighting for glory Reality's a thief, my life it took Try to go to see the world through my eyes It's all good man, stop pretending Don't you think the journey's hard enough? We all deserve a storybook ending