Lyrics Green Balloons - E-Man Bates

Green Balloon: As a person starts achieving success
Greed begins inflating a person ego craving more attention
Burning more bridges and ruining more relationships
Until the pressure from their situation builds up and they ultimately explode
Or the envy as they see the next man seemingly doing better than their selves
A person becomes more and more infatuated in living a life
That's not their own frustrated with their own situation
Their ego deflates from comparing yourself to the next man
Even though the next man's situation in reality is not all that it appears...
Over the next 7 songs, I'll tell you a story speaking from first
And third person experiences throughout my life and from people around me...
RIP Donna Johnson... this is my warning

Now It's been a long road
Yes lawd its been a long road to get this far
And I played a few shows
And I shook some hands and earned some scars
I made some fans and I made some fam
Killed some beats and rocked with bands
Lost some friends and lost some time
Sometimes wish I could rewind
Back to when it all began
Back to the start of the plan
Back to when I was just a young man with a pen in his hand
Till it Jammed for all the words he crammed
God damn those were simpler times
Playing shows out my basement just to shine
Setting up closet booths to rhyme
Spamming facebook with my grind
Just to earn my respect
Just to boost my rep
Just to to earn a check someday as proof to my family with this gift I was blessed to make it
Destined for greatness
Fuck all of this fake shit
I'm showing the world me and my flaws so thanks for your patience
As this albums starts I wanna say
I just wanna say
I thank you for pressing play
For pressing play
And someday we'll be worldwide
But for now we local
See it with your own eyes
Put on the bifocals
But what happens when you get to big and you lose your way
And The people who were here before have gone away
And its your fault, you pissed em off
Just fuck you's and so longs when feeling complete is long gone
And you hit the stage with swan songs saying
Why oh why oh why oh why am I so lonely
Everybody know my name but they don't know me
I don't show any love, fuck a homie
All I want are these hos and that money
Living life like rappers do
Yea that image do seem cool
But that image ain't so vivid if you knew the stories with it
If you chase that life, you catch it
Better hope that you well rested
Sacrifice your whole life, hope you don't regret it
That's my message cause these
These green balloons a trip, greed and envy boost egos
Get that money get that money
Nigga Fuck these other people
That's your stelo till you max out
Now what to show for it
You ain't rich cause you keep the club pourin'
Think more important something with some substance
As I sip another substance in abundance cause these kids they fuck with addicts it's dramatic
And its tragic that it's got this bad
But that's the way it goes
Thinking real live is what they see in videos
Oh here we go
Thinking that's it's cool to run the streets
Facebook live'n with your piece
Spent a check just to be a hypebeast
Man please that shit is played out
Shit don't even matter
Between being BMF and investing bread I'd rather choose the latter
Pitter patter of a few kids, a wife and a kittens but for now
I'll make a killing off these writtens that I've been spitting and the killing part is I'm good at it
Me with a pen is like magic
Hogwarts'n the beats
Harry Potter but I'm more savage
I'm toe tagging these flows
And I'm taxing for the shows
All the progress over time I've I've made it on the low
I put my team on my back, and next is my city
From the D to the Lanti got people fucking with me
Cool with hipsters and hood niggas
Scholars and scholars and drug dealers
Doctors and the trigger man that put em in the hospital
Not boasting I'm staying facts
Get to know me through these tracks
Until I get my word across
I can never stay lax
From the moment out the womb
Until I hit my tomb
Imma paint the World with my war wounds
More coming soon
If These green balloons inflate
And if that ends up my fate
You can never say that I was a ever fake
E Bates