Verse 1:

Hey, jade
You're busting my brain
You started off to college and the rest of us stayed
We was black, we was hood
Competition wasn't good
Working everyday for paper
Cos my dad was long gone
Fighting everyday,
Street was all there is to me
Talking bout my history, I left it all behind
I stay the same
The young kid with a little ambition
Saving the last dance, what a wishful peasant
Listening to the sounds, not the times or the seasons
All the time I was wishing I was home with my mama eating
To all my people, I was pest and I was evil
Searching to find the wealth to make fly high as eagle
My people
I came crashing all the way to Jesus,
My feet was so feeble, And the shame was unfiltered
While wishing
I rode the path that calls upon my name
And History was made
Then my figures escalated

Hook:

(I know where I'm going)
I've been working, working, working always, yeah
(I know where I'm going)
All my life I had to learn the hard way, yeah
(I know where I'm going)
Its so hard to take this life so simple
(I know where I'm going)
Getting along, taking the walk, yeah

Verse 2:

I'm heading south to the southam'n
24 degrees, held the city to a still
And the rest unannounced and
Heard the people talking on the pedestal workings
They said I was a pauper by the time I met Joppa
My son was over hearing it,
The truth I wasn't telling him
I said Son, you'll only understand when you get bigger
I did a lot of dumb Sh*t
I'm not afraid of saying,
I'll tell you all the stories if you want, juxtaposing
My father was a warlord before he left the village
And ever since the story changed when mom became a widow
We ran out of materials, like groceries and seedlings
No one will dare to help us when the uncles came and raid us
They said
"Your husband die with no inheritance yo!
You better tell your son to stay at home and help with the work
Can you survive all the hardship, the hunger, the crisis
Tell it to your sons, its now history.

Hook:

(I know where I'm going)
I've been working, working, working always, yeah
(I know where I'm going)
All my life I had to learn the hard way, yeah
(I know where I'm going)
Its so hard to take this life so simple
(I know where I'm going)
Getting along, taking the walk, yeah