American Pie - Jon Connor

Come with me if you will, if I could take you back in time

Back in high school, hitting skins was the only thing on my mind

Eleventh grade, boy, you couldn’t tell me shit, I was in my prime

Moms blocking your cell phone, tired of girls tying up the line

I mean, I spent so much time trying to get ass and, yeah, I did

I think back, I thank the Lord, I wasn’t ready to have no kid

I’m on the phone till five in the morning, knowing I gotta get up early for

class

Mama said I need to slow down, but I told her all these girls so fast

Look, all these girls so fine, all these girls got to be mine

So many times I said, «It's only you,» knowing damn-well I was lying

Saying, «I love you,» and, «It's just you,» I ain’t even gotta touch you

Running that game, nah, girl, I ain’t even tryna rush you

I ran into this chick I used to hit, aw yeah, she was bad

Now she got five babies, four baby-daddies, yo, this shit’s sad

Now I think back to them times I used to make an empty promise

I think, «Is this my fault?»

Shit’s just weight on my conscious, for real

The weather changes winds, they blow

Sun will shine amidst the snow

If only chose how we fall

It’d be too easy to brush it off

So it ends, and it begins

So it ends, and it begins

So it ends, and it begins

So it ends…

Beauty is her gift, and her beauty is her curse

Look, between home and school, she don’t know which one is worse

Every nigga tryna hit it so she don’t know what she worth

When she gave it to her first, he went around saying he hit it first

Now, picture that, now she bitter

Her daddy used to hit her

Yeah, nigga had a temper

Used to get touched on by the babysitter

All that shit’s still in her

But we ain’t tripping, we just walk on by

Wave when we say hi

But what’s inside, made her use her bathroom breaks to go and cry

We don’t ask, so she don’t tell, so she figures nobody cares

Teen years have us isolated thinking nobody there

Insecure about what to wear

She hates the person that’s in the mirror

But as a teen, all we seen was light skin with pretty hair

Teachers used to think that she was fast, all cos of how she looked

But jealousy don’t stop just cos they grown, you’ll learn that in no book

Her beauty was a burden

On the inside, she was still hurting

Never found herself and now she grown and still searching

It was…

She had posters all on her wall

Of her favourite artists, she’d call

Her girl to pick her up when she want to go catch niggas down at the mall

Don’t judge a book by its cover

I say judge a book by the authour

What no God is there if my father

Wanna go hit the club with his daughter

Daughter probably 'bout just as lost, she ain’t got no chance

Just a victim of circumstance

None of this shit was in the plans

Nah, not still living at home with her moms

Not get knocked up by no slob

Niggas spend all day playing 2K, ain’t thinking about no job

They say, «Girl, getchu an athlete,» like that mentality helps

She takes all kinds of abuse, dude, she don’t know how to fend for herself

Her mouth will tell you all kind of lies, but her eyes will tell you the truth

Behind that pretty face, there’s so much pain that we never knew

And that’s… Real!