So Hard to Breathe - B.o.B

Since day one I said fuck the fame and everything it dealt

But the fame is really here just to facilitate the wealth

But the wealth attracts you haters like mosquitos to a well

And the waters getting deeper so I must set out to sail

Someone called my cell, and left a voicemail

They said congratulations on the million record sales

As I’m flippin over furniture, knockin' shit off the shelf

I told myself I’d never get too deep to take a breath but I’m sinkin

And it’s so hard to breathe, yeah

And even more so to sleep when no one cares

It was all I could need

But now I’m sinking, so deep, I can’t come up for air

Yeah, I’ve seen the valley of the shadow of death

I’ve seen the mountains, a wild childhood

That’s why I sing about it

I just try to move on and keep my peace about it

But come to think about it I can’t even count the days

That I spent starvin' tryin' to find a some decent housing

It’s why I’m always smiling but on this beat I seem so violent

So ask me about the music scene and what the fuck I think about it

Time flies I guess that’s why I’m buggin

Just yesterday I was rappin with my brother and my cousin

If you had the stove or toaster on you couldn’t use the oven

We knew that we were struggling we just actin like we wasn’t

It was either make it rapping, if not that then hustling

So all I see is magazine covers in this game

You either surface or you plummet

It’s a thin line and I’m just tryin to keep my head above it, damn

And it’s so hard to breathe, yeah

And even more so to sleep when no one cares

It was all I could need

But now I’m sinking, so deep, I can’t come up for air

Air I (I sink away)

Air (I sink away)

Air (As I sink away) I (Damn I sink away)

Damn air damn pots and pans

Get carried away damn get carried away it

Was never in the plans

But hey, it’s long way from beatin' pots and pans

And it’s so hard to breathe, yeah

And even more so to sleep when no one cares

It was all I could need

But now I’m sinking, so deep, I can’t come up for air

Damn it was never in the plans

But hey, it’s a long way from beatin' pots and pans

But now I’m sinking so deep I can’t come up for air, air, ah