Cheer up

[00:01.80] Cheer Up

[00:12.48] J. Cole

[00:13.37] Even through the joy I feel the pain

[00:14.51] Even in the Sun I feel the rain

[00:15.89] Even when I'm high I feel the lows

[00:18.55] Like that's all I know

[00:20.56] Lord knows I can't complain

[00:22.81] But even when I do it feels the same

[00:25.50] I'm getting high just to fight the lows, cuz that's all I know

[00:28.75] School girl, cool girl

[00:31.87] You dressing sexy and your mama is a cougar

[00:34.04] So she let you do the grown folks thang

[00:36.27] Let you hang with them boys and they play you like a fool girl

[00:39.39] You got your new hair, it look so good

[00:42.08] You write the same niggas name in your notebook

[00:44.38] You know the same one from class, the one you let smash

[00:46.53] Now you see him 'round school and he won't look

[00:49.00] Now girl you is fine, ain't no doubt about it

[00:50.72] But why else you think he hit it and forgot about it?

[00:54.02] Its cause your mind dont match what your ass got

[00:56.34] But cheer up, you gotta be your own mascot

[00:58.86] You see you're lookin for a man like you need somebody

[01:01.58] Get your ass off of Twitter, you could be somebody!

[01:03.78] A doctor, a rock star, baby, live life!

[01:06.38] But you rather wet up all your pillows at night thinking

[01:09.87] That's all I know, that's all I know

[01:37.32] That's all I know, that's all I

[01:38.41] Hey cheer up!

[01:40.09] Ey lil' mama, cheer up!

[01:42.84] You got your whole life to live, ey why you want tear up?

[01:48.10] Don't let them lil' boy comp

[01:53.79] Hey, hey!

[01:59.03] Yea, I wake up in the morning and I ask my self

[02:01.21] Is life worth living, should I blast myself?

[02:03.41] Don't even wanna get up out of bed

[02:05.31] I got the Glock to my head, feel I rather be dead

[02:06.80] Hey, am I hopeless? Raised with rats and roaches

[02:08.81] Never like them teachers, couldn't stand my coaches

[02:12.58] Ask whats the matter but you can't relate

[02:15.21] Living the life that you hate but you can't escape

[02:17.29] Feel like I'm stuck here, that's why I won't give the fuck here

[02:21.08] There's no luck here! No body to trust here

[02:23.18] My own mother, yeah I love her

[02:24.98] But things I heard as a child under my covers

[02:27.10] Left me with scars, it was hard to see her suffer

[02:29.44] Blocking my heart and I don't know if I'll recover

[02:31.89] I'm going under and as I'm headed to the front door

[02:34.41] She said she proud of me and I wonder what for

[02:36.74] And once more