Joe Budden Calm Down Lyrics

Calm Down Lyrics

[Intro]
Calm down... calm down...
Baby just calm down...
(Calm down...
)
She use to tell me to... calm down...
Moms use to tell me to... calm
down...
Baby just calm down...
She use to tell me to... calm
down...
Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
(She would pray that I
would) Baby just calm down...
Calm down...

[Budden - Verse
1]
Look, I was such a lost soul, just wanted to be down with
something
Look at your son now mommy I amounted to something
You couldn't
figure out, what I had messed with the streets for
Cause you saw my genius
without a SAT score
I took drugs and laced it with things
But you a
addict yourself,
For you I would peep(?) for places and things (how the fuck
you thought)
Angeldust use to have me in the hallways twurked
I tried to
hide it, but Visine didn't always work
I needed someone to blame in my
mind
I thought if you and dad never used dope I would a came out fine
And
so I hit you hard when you threw in advice
Like what I want to talk to you
about you ruined my life
You the reason why I ended up a con and I knew
it
The reason I filled my body with that bomin fluid, mommy
You the
reason that my life's gone illegal
The reason I'm kinda different, don't
think like normal people, not calm

[Chorus]
She use to tell me to...
calm down...
Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
(Use to pray that I
would) Baby just calm down...
You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make
it
She use to tell me to... calm down...
Moms use to tell me to... calm
down...
(You got to understand what I was going through)
Baby just calm
down...
Everything's gonna be alright
She use to tell me to... calm
down...
Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
(But a nigga wouldn't)
Baby just calm down...
You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it
y'all

[Budden - Verse 2]
Listen... ain't shit like seeing your moms
crying on the floor
Knowing you the reason why she ain't alright no
more
But so young, I was like whatever
You use to chase me through the
house with the knife like get your life together
Fucking drugs, how could I
ever amp on you
And what made me think that I could lay my hands on
you
I'm not surprised that you mad at me
Much as you hated my father,
your youngest son is just like his daddy
Mommy I live life rude, how could
you not understand it
On the same note I'm just like you
I got moms
sensitivity, my fathers balls
His humor, his g, and my heart is
yours
Fuck school, cause I had my major
Come to grips that it ain't so
much the drugs, it's the addict behavior (no)
Was it the dic charge, the cut
that came with it
Wasn't really the smoking, but the rush that came with it
(wasn't calm people)

[Chorus]
She use to tell me to... calm
down...
Calm down...
(but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down...
You
gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all
(do it with me people)
Calm down...
Calm down...
(try to understand it) Baby just calm
down...
(those kind of things) Everything's gonna be alright
Calm down...
(just bare with me for a... for a brief moment y'all)
Calm down...
Baby
just calm down...
You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it
y'all

[Budden - Verse 3]
I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so
what
Then when Angela stabbed me guess who showed up
And when people said
I'd always be ill and twisted
And when the therapist had told us that the
pills would fix it
Was sick of being sick, I was finally hurt
With all
the praying that you did ma, it finally worked
God gave you a son back, I
won't offend you again
Won't let the disease turn me against you
again
Use to be high as ever, (but I) Joey Jr. got his life together
As a
result, now we tighter than ever
So blessed, so grateful to be seeing
tomorrow (see the whole world)
That's why I can't take a drink, not if even
a swallow
I can't picture me twisted, like what I'm a do now
Haters I
can't stop yet, my mothers to proud
Secure now, don't need to be down with
nothing
Look at your son now mommy, I amounted to something
I'm so
calm

[Chorus]
Calm down...
Calm down...
(but a nigga wouldn't
calm down) Baby just calm down...
You gotta hold your head up cause we gone
make it y'all (hold up)
She use to tell me to... calm down...
(Use to
pray that I would) calm down...
(But I couldn't, I couldn't, couldn't do it)
Baby just calm down...
(Nothing heals like time people) Everything's gonna be
alright
(Understand that) calm down...
Calm down...
(Fucking miracle)
Baby just calm down...
You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it
y'all
(They said I wouldn't reach 21 y'all... I'm still
standing)

Calm down...
Thanks ma...
Calm down...
I couldn't do
it without you
Calm down...
Calm down...
You are appreciated
Calm
down...
Fa sho...
Calm down...
It's a slow process y'all
One day at
a time though... to get beautiful