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PAST DUE lyrics
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Intro
First again, huh Calendar don't care if you ready
Verse 1
Red envelope sittin on the counter like a warrant Kitchen smell like old coffee and the pilot light went dormant Thumb through my wallet, count the same forty-seven twice Check the app, refresh it, check it back, same price Mama callin from the 954, I dodge it She gon ask about the light bill and I ain't got the logic Four walls gettin tighter every first that roll around My daughter need new shoes but I'm just tryna hold the ground
Pre-chorus
Fifteenth comin, then the first again Every month a different wound, same medicine
Chorus
Past due, past due, everything past due Rent check, neck check, stack what I had to Bills thick, fridge thin, clock runnin fast too And I'm still here countin, yeah, everything past due
Verse 2
Boss cut my Wednesday shift like I don't got a lease Side gig ghosted on the invoice, three weeks no receipt Homie talkin bout a lick that's guaranteed and fast Last dude who bit that line got twelve years on his back So I triple up on doubles at the warehouse past my spine Feet bleed through the steel toes by the end of overtime Pawnshop got my chain, the one my pops left, whatever Some things gotta break so other things hold together
Pre-chorus
Fifteenth comin, then the first again Every month a different wound, same medicine
Chorus
Past due, past due, everything past due Rent check, neck check, stack what I had to Bills thick, fridge thin, clock runnin fast too And I'm still here countin, yeah, everything past due
Verse 3
Momma moved us seven times before I finished middle school Every box we packed was lighter cause we lost somethin in the move Uncle signed a lease he couldn't read, they kept the whole deposit Grandma died in a place she ain't own, that still sit in my pocket Money split this family like a blade nobody sharpened Every eviction was a funeral with no coffin Now I sit here with a notebook full of business plans But the first keeps burnin pages 'fore I use my hands
Bridge
I ain't ask to be born into a deficit But I'm the only one who's gonna audit it
Verse 4
Nah, I ain't takin that job from Trey, I know what that lead to County beds and courthouse steps and momma cryin in the pew Sold the PlayStation, sold the Jordans, swallowed every piece of ego Picked up extra routes til my knees was screamin legal Small deposits, small deposits, that's the play nobody glamorize A dollar that don't cost your freedom worth a hundred in disguise Ownership the long way round, I know it don't go viral But survival with a blueprint beat survival in a spiral
Verse 5
You checkin this at 2 AM with rent due in the mornin I know that math don't add up, I know that panic performin But listen, stop treatin broke like it's a permanent condition It's a position, and positions shift with different decisions Save seventeen dollars, learn a skill the landlord need Fix a pipe, rewire a switch, trade labor for the fee The cycle crack the moment that you see it as a system Not a sentence, you ain't guilty, you was just born in the prison
Chorus
Past due, past due, everything past due Rent check, neck check, stack what I had to Bills thick, fridge thin, clock runnin fast too And I'm still here countin, yeah, everything past due
Outro
Past due... past due... But I paid it
Inside the recording
First again, huh Calendar don't care if you ready
Fifteenth comin, then the first again Every month a different wound, same medicine
Past due... past due... But I paid it
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