[00:00.04]everyone thinks that i have it all
[00:03.76]but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls
[00:10.16]these castle walls
[00:14.66]if i should tumble if i should fall
[00:18.20]would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
[00:24.37]there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls
[00:29.51]Castle Walls
[00:35.51]T.I(ft Christina Aguilera)
[00:41.96]observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in
[00:45.19]bet you would think i got it made, better look again
[00:48.45]i got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion
[00:51.27]the belief is that i’m living out a millionaires fantasy
[00:54.02]with pantoms and ferrari’s in the driveway
[00:56.48]but you see the pain and the change of the same man’s
[00:59.40]your vision jaded by the grammy’s on the mantelpiece
[01:03.33]just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony
[01:06.06]apparantly it’s damaging the man you see before you
[01:08.79]on the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family
[01:12.72]encounters overpowers his extravagance
[01:15.12]walk in my ? i dare you
[01:17.31]while it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous
[01:21.02]as seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs
[01:24.35]because the camera’s don’t see beyond the walls of the smiles
[01:27.64]only counts until it falls in the pile
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[01:29.36]everyone thinks that i have it all
[01:32.07]but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls
[01:36.58]these castle walls
[01:40.22]if i should tumble if i should fall
[01:43.39]would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
[01:48.50]there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls
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[01:54.09]honestly to me, i think i’d lose every benefit of all that i’ve accomplished
[01:57.97]if my key is never with it, sh-t
[01:59.75]me knowing this, why should the verses i have laid
[02:02.26]be more important to me than the persons i have raised
[02:05.45]i guess i’m saying that to say that ooportunity
[02:08.22]but they just don’t equate to all the time they take away
[02:11.01]from the kids all the sh-t i did right is a mistake
[02:14.46]if deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay
[02:17.34]how could i ever consider myself a great
[02:20.19]if messiah ain’t paid and nique nique ain’t straight
[02:23.06]would your favourite song about the whips, money and sh-t
[02:25.86]be relevant if you found out, the money wasn’t real, nope
[02:29.96]so me being the goat shouldn’t mean more to me
[02:33.71]than see it to a king though
[02:34.69]from a bad ass kid to man with some dough
[02:38.04]otherwise i may well have stayed poor
[02:40.48]so while they stay focused on me beefin with flip,
[02:42.51]shawty low, gucci or ludacris
[02:43.86]or if i’m f-cking with a hoe
[02:45.99]did i snitch when i got arrested or will i die over nonesense
[02:49.57]internally i’m dealing with this conflict
[02:52.36]so excuse me if i don’t get the chance to kiss the hand
[02:55.55]or slap me in the face, ay i,m just the man
[02:58.29]if they saying i ain’t the best at making hit records
[03:01.59]it’s cause this my life these ain’t just rapping
[03:04.40]sh-t, you think of that deep, did ya dawg
[03:07.28]see you can’t see the castle through the walls till it falls
[03:10.31]bitch ain’t thinking with the deep, did ya dog
[03:13.21]cause see you can’t see the castle through the walls till it falls
[03:15.27]
[03:15.82]everyone thinks that i have it all
[03:18.28]but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls
[03:23.51]these castle walls
[03:27.29]if i should tumble if i should fall
[03:30.49]would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
[03:35.52]there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls
[03:40.17]
[03:40.74]nobody knows i’m all alone
[03:42.61]living in this castle made of stone
[03:45.55]they say that money is freedom but i feel trapped inside it all
[03:51.37]and while i sit so high up on a throne
[03:54.50]i wonder how i can feel this low
[03:57.47]on top of the world it’s beautiful
[04:00.55]but there’s no place to fall
[04:02.41]
[04:03.08]for the record ay, i give a damn if i never said sh-t again
[04:06.85]my career was meant for me to come and tell it
[04:09.53]honest interpretation of how affected i’m faced with
[04:12.78]matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement
[04:15.55]the day that i walk i ain’t saying that i’m amazing
[04:18.41]down playing the way i keep fellas from catching cases
[04:21.56]won’t take into consideration how much it mean what i’m saying
[04:24.50]and when i say what i mean even when i’m sorrounded by the fakers
[04:27.57]from one of the greatest centers, blessed with most of god’s graces
[04:30.28]who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places
[04:33.36]so next time you rating royalty, i’m always being given to recordings than the level
[04:39.41]of your loyalty, obvious you’ve been ignoring me
[04:41.36]who else ya seen make it through the storm, unharmed disjointed
[04:45.36]while all the critics was looking for prince charming
[04:48.25]disregarded the king of the south raised doubt
[04:51.06]even though he made a castle out of used to be a house
[04:53.83]he did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about
[04:56.83]but most of y’all don’t see the castle through the walls
[04:59.91]and the smiles till it falls in piles so while…
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[05:02.52]everyone thinks that i have it all
[05:05.02]but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls
[05:10.18]these castle walls
[05:14.09]if i should tumble if i should fall
[05:17.03]would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
[05:22.30]there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls