Hills and Valleys

Listen to me, listen your father been trying to speak

Tell me exactly where in my word it says that valleys ain't something you'll see

Said when you walk you won't fear the evil that's trying to keep you from getting your peace

Down in the valleys you still can be free, now take my hand there's something I want you to see

See man, the valleys are tough, but Imma teach y'all how to walk on the hills now. Ay let the drums drop

I said let me teach you bout the hills now

Yeah that feeling when you paid up all your bills now

When you making beats you know that got the ill sound

Got the faith that make both fathers feel proud

Yeah, it's a feeling that you've been waiting on. Ain't it rookie?

Y'all been playing hooky.

Skipping work then get mad you ain't get a cookie

Then when you get it it's a blessing that you never gon forget

God brought you to the top but there's a lot that you regret

Like making that decision or writing that description

Cause now your bars mad hot, boiling in the kitchen

But all them cold nights always got you reminiscing

Man, how far would I be if I just read my word and listened

But you gotta understand it's the valleys that build you

You wouldn't even be here if they hadn't killed you

Had to strip you of your pride, your arrogant ways

So you could fly on the hills not a bird in a cage

Yeah there's certain mistakes that turn your sorrow to strength

Turn your pain into joy. Fill your void with terrain

But that's a choice that you make to simply not be destroyed

By all of the labels that tend to make a lot of noise

Yeah, they tell you your purpose

Boy, you know you're worthless

Girl, you ain't pretty if you don't cake up all your surface with the makeup that you purchase

Tell me, is it worth it?

To spend all of your days listening to labels chirping?

I'm cutting it off along with Satan's cell phone

That's a double kill, two birds, one stone

Imma sling it like I'm David

All of my Goliaths gonna wish I wasn't praying

It's a new day, so stop stressing

Life that we live in is pretty short, but there's two important things that you better not ignore

As you go up, you gon' learn how to soar. But as you go down, man, you gon' learn a lot more

Hills and Valleys