5am in philly

Meek Mill

Scary times
Please, hold me close in these scary times
Don t say you love me and then change your mind
I need someone who understands
I m just a man, just a man

Chopper by the bed, glizzy by the door
How you think I m supposed
to live when only thing I see is war?
Yesterday, was on the Gram, I seen a baby on the floor
They said they hit him with a bomb
and that kid ain t with his mom
And I m used to seein death
cause I m from Philly where niggas die
Where the blacks kill blacks and I can t even tell you why
I know niggas stuck in beef and they can t even tell you how
If you strapped, you go to jail
but if you ain t, you gon die
(Scary times)
And yeah, I cried on the news when I had changed that law
And niggas still talkin bout me
shit got changed for y all
(Please, hold me close in these scary times)
I been famous since eighteen, I ain t really change at all
(Don t say you love me and then change your mind)
Niggas gettin in your head, that shit might change your dog
I change my drawers, then put on my Glock when I wake up
(I need someone who understands)
Crazy part, that shit just made my block really break up
I m the motivation, I made niggas get their cake up
(I m just a man, just a man)
Caught niggas with their face down
and I made em put they face up
I been tryin shine since Christina have had them Jacobs
Now it s Richard Millie when she see me fix her makeup
Flyin twelve hours, I be in Ghana when I wake up
Ain t no real niggas believe that lyin shit
they made up (Scary times)
I stand on everything I said
well, I ma stay up (Please, hold me close
in these scary times)
Tryna take my homie out the country cause he cased up
My other brother, life inside a cell
they got him caged up (Don t say you love me
and then change your mind)
Eighteen years and ain t seen him since, they tryna break us
I m ridin through the trenches, two hundred shots
they tryna take us
I gotta make it home to Lil Poppy, he got an A plus
I m so poppin , they throwin propaganda
you better wake up (I m just a man, just a man)
I m just a?
How you gon tell me you love me and change your mind?
I m readin everything, wrote a book about all your lies
I m peepin everything, so who crooked that s in the squad?
My homie lyin to me while he lookin me in my eyes
and shit (Change your mind)
It kinda hurt me, but really wasn t surprised
(I need someone who understands)
When the blind lead the blind, it can really fuck your mind
And the time meet the time
you forty without a dime (I m just a man, just a man)
And the only thing you own is a. 40 and a little. 9
So if he kill son, that s the only way he gon shine
I got a Richie, he get sixty years, we both doin real time
Only difference is, I made it rappin , puttin in real time
I still be talkin pain, shit
my people still dyin , still cryin
It was crab in the barrel, still climb
Niggas tried to put me down
when I got out, still throw a line
Doin too much for these people
gettin tough, ain t gon lie
Like I ain t had the city flyin
private real time (Scary times)
I had niggas at the clearport that never been
to the airport (Please, hold me close in these scary times)
Actin like they got an attitude, fuck is you here for?
Go back to the hood and bite my back, what you there for?
(Don t say you love me and then change your mind)
Broke boys hatin on the king
why would you care for? I m here for
Everybody that was with me
when I had a bad storm (I need someone who understands)
Everybody actin like they with me, all this glass on
5 a. m. in Philly, ridin round
I got my mask on (I m just a man, just a man)
This time s y all pass on
Hatin on your brother life, that s a bad jawn
I ain t seen my son in nights, that s a bad jawn
My homie in another life, that s a bad jawn
5 a. m. in Phily, ridin round, I got my mask on

Scary times
Please, hold me closely in these scary times
Don t tell me you love me and then try to change your mind
I need someone who understands
I m just a man, I m just a man