A forty ounce for breakfast a brother through the day I I shoulda had a V8 instead anyway Let me contemplate my thought, back to a time When my fridge was full of booze but in my not one dime
I remember on Willis Ave, with my ace boom homey Mark Black I would the day off hearin' the sound of the fo' oh, crack I went to work blitzed so I got dissed And a shocker when my supervisor said, "You're dismissed"
Now as I stare at my check now my mind Is stressed and I spell relief, S T I D E S, yes, with a excess less the worry Why go job today? When I can sit back and smoke sack and drink And my problems shrink away
And by now the rent's due in two But inside my mind that's another problem brew can delete I got to the point where the court martial came to my door And said, "Get this kid, get your bags and You live here no more"
And now I'm ass out, I'm so damn I feel like I'm pass out I asked my for a handout and he hooked me Though I he had doubts
And so 'cause I had new shit to deal with I'm so confused I no control of my life I think I'll get lit So as my compile, I steady smile, oh yes Sippin' on that forty ounce that's leadin' me to a path of So as I think tomorrow, I hesitate and say "A forty ounce for breakfast get me through the day"
A forty ounce for breakfast gets a through the day I I shoulda rolled a joint up instead, anyway Seems like every time I start, I don't know when time to say when Now my mental all blurred and inside talk the ill behavin'
Coolin' my boys, no names need to be mentioned At a with some brothers, I don't know I'm chillin' in some E and J With a forty OZ to wash the down And plus a lot of now I need to sit down
I can't remember the last time I was blew out of my cranium My ears and head begin to hum aloud as the room spun, Next I know I blacked out woke up with vomit all over my coat talkin' out my ass I can't see straight but yet I quote
And I don't know what came over me, I started both my homies That I used to freestyle with and now I'm askin' them to me What they got not thinkin' straight I know why I posed the challenge Now my ego is erupting as if I was Mt. Saint
Some shit was I know I can't erase and now shit ain't the same I wish I had just one more to live that day again I 'cause this bid was to find a true friend And loose them to booze in my system ain't how I'm livin'
Nothin' I could really say to mend up how someone else And so I guess I wait and see if maybe the wounds will heal And I really didn't mean a word I though I can't prove that Now the only that I can really say is, I went out
And out I went and now and then I get and say A forty for, nah, a forty ounce for, fuck one more forty, just one more, I'll make this last day A forty for breakfast can get me through the day