[verse]

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from the beginning
I didn’t really listen
they couldn’t tell me nothin'
I've been hardheaded
young and restless
down in my spirit
searching for direction
waitin' on a message
lesson learned again and i'm starting over

something better on the way
every day it's closer
every day, a step closer

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[pre-chorus]

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so it’s alright if I move a lil different

it’s alright I've got big ambitions
it’s alright you don’t know my reasons

it's alright

if never meet an expectation

it's ok I got big intentions
I’ll just keep on livin'
it’s alright

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[chorus]

 

​every day

every day it gets closer

every day

every day, a step closer

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[verse]

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I mean I grew from a long way
doin'it all wrong, on the long way
goin' the totally wrong way
wasn’t no turnarounds or do-overs
runnin' them obstacles smooth over
and did it broken-hearted like the whole way

seeing demons the whole way

been out here fighting with 'em
with that holy rhythm
out here spittin the truth

getting slept on but I kept on

17 with a boy on the way

let some of them dreams go

but I kept one to the side
2 kids at 25

we gone survive and then some day

mama gone find her pen
and get in again
then what them nappers is gone say?

tell 'em wake up and let a winner win

then at the end of the long day

tell 'em she did it her own way
tell 'em I did it my own way
tell 'em I went at my own pace
tell 'em I figured my own place
tell 'em I figured my own plays
showed up and really hit ‘em with that optism

wasn’t no decision this the mission I was given

cried a lot nights

but woke up with the same ambition: get it right
til somebody listen
winners gonna win i put that on my life

put that on my children

put that on as long as I’m alive

if I got breath then it’s alright

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[pre-chorus]

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alright if I move a lil different

it’s alright I've got big ambitions
it’s alright you don’t know my reasons

it's alright

if never meet an expectation

it's ok I got big intentions
I’ll just keep on livin'
it’s alright

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[chorus]

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every day

every day it gets closer

every day

every day, a step closer