Rollercoaster Baby - Rob Roy

Mama pray, Pappy ache

Brother finna go and graduate

Ex-girlfriend in a different state

I still make minimum wage

Even though I’m known to exaggerate

Couldn’t get a loan at a low fixed rate

So I got a few things on my plate

In its place, give or take

Is it safe if it breaks?

Yes it ain’t, if that ain’t

Some kind of shit, don’t know what’s stank

Once is a bitch, two times is skank

Y’all, I finna dip like contemplate

Y’all ain’t gonna get me with that cake

All I really want is all at stake

All I really got is all I make

Wait.

.. I’ve made mistakes and all of that steak

For a lot of instantaneous weight

But it’s safe to say I make my own fate

That’s what I said, get out my head

I’m out my bed

Now let’s put pedal to the leg

And if it falls off the ledge

Then at least it’s all for the best

Yes, madame, done packing

In fact, I’m on Saturn and

Never would’ve got this far not rapping

Guess I would’ve got my car all crashed in

Let me tell you all thus far — this, that

And the other thing seem as though old-fashioned

So I dive in deep with feet backwards

Till I’m right in reach of me asking:

Rollercoaster Baby, are you

Falling off the wheels tomorrow?

Cause of all things Mama taught you

Don’t it always?

(Up and down)

So let me go get straight to it:

Way I view it, from the Buick

To the sewage — it’s congruent

Whether good or bad influence

Better to have had intuitively

Vacuumed gas tank fluid

Than to held back and attached brakes to it

Finna throw back in exact 2 minutes

Dead ass serious, call me curious

George!

Of course, the more I’ve written, it

Makes more sense to make more cents

And make sure dents lay on that fence

Hence, it’s as intense as all of that gets

So let’s invent some ways to pay rent

And send our kids to live how we meant

Invest in stocks, and less in «shock-and-awe»

It’s all we got:

The mall, the cars, the parking lot

Often, I’m off in the bars a lot

Cause often, I’m off in the stars a lot

It’s all for a cause that I’ve all but forgot

I’m not really positive I’m gonna stop

But God, if you hear me, I’m clearing a spot

Merely a thought, clearly I’m not

Yet.

Though I guess I’m expecting a lot

And I digress, so let’s be honest.

.. kind of

Most want it, don’t got it

So much for no college gold scholarship

If in the event there’s an inch not honored

In any instance, isn’t it ironic?

Considering since, in a sense, I’m hollering:

Rollercoaster Baby, are you

Falling off the wheels tomorrow?

Cause of all things Mama taught you

Don’t it always?

(Up and down)