Worry About Me - Jay Johnson

Let me take you all down memory lane

Life has been nothing but struggle and pain

The number of times I’ve had to hustle in the rain

Just to find that my pockets are only rustling from change

Change, change, that’s what I thought I needed

Heads down, fun was up, never pleaded or conceded

I was running round town

Wore my shoes down to the sole

It’s cunning how now

To survive I must sell my soul

Working hard is the only thing that’s kept me living

You said to me baby you’re the gift that just keeps on giving

To show you a good time, I don’t need any money

You said that’s funny, I said honey it won’t always be sunny

Some days I’ll wake up and I won’t wanna say a thing

Used to being on my own that’s how I learned to play these strings

And playing these strings has given me wings

Now everywhere I look opportunity springs

Turning heads now

Everyone wants a piece of the pie

Not just a piece

They want percentages till the day I die

Who am I kidding, they want the music I’ve composed

So they’ll make money after I’m fully decomposed

I guess the number of people like me aren’t many

And I don’t mean to sound cold when you ask to meet

I feel like I’ve lived several lives and I’m only twenty

Being alone taught me to stand on my own two feet

So no matter what happens, I know I’ll still stand

But it means I find it hard to take a helping hand

So I’m sorry and I love you, there’s nothing else above you

Meant I love you and I’m sorry, but I don’t want you to worry about me

I don’t want you to worry about me

I don’t want you to worry about me

Darling I don’t want you to worry about me

Being around youth makes you feel young

But to tell you the truth, feel like I’ve never been one

I wish I didn’t have to grow up so fast

But childhood was too good to last

I grew up in fear, left it behind, that was a feat

It was only ever bitter not ever bittersweet

Savoury solitude became my favourite talisman

Slavery dresses its attitude up as capitalism

4 jobs, 3 months it’s was too much for me

Just so I wouldn’t have debt after I bought my degree

So I dropped out, may as well have hopped out as the car was moving

Didn’t care anyway I was grooving

Thought I copped out really I just cropped out with the most precision

Everything that wasn’t in my vision

I was scared then, I wasn’t prepared then, all this smoke and mirrors

But now I can say I see things clearer

You make music, can you really use it?

You’re working 9 to 5

I want a home before I’m 95

Said you’re working 9 to 5

I want a home before I’m 95

So no matter what happens I know I’ll stand

But it means I find it hard to take a helping had

So I’m sorry and I love you, there’s nothing else above you

Meant I love you and I’m sorry, but I don’t want you to worry about me

I don’t want you to worry about me

I don’t want you to worry about me

Darling I don’t want you to worry about me