Matter of Time

It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time
It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time
I don’t really need an introduction
When I send a message I don’t click a button
I don’t pick the phone up when I make a call and if I ever do then it’s a quick
discussion
Like the hitters hit me and we hit the function
Got the riders with me when we get it jumping out the ceiling
Running with a squad of fifty in the city hunting
And I’m dumping bills from my account it’s spilling like a fountain
Thumbing through it counting, humming
What a feeling
Miss me with a hundred thousand I just want a milli
Clean or dirty, get it grimy, filthy ‘til it’s shiny, silky and they find me
guilty
I’m the one they doubted now they sounding silly
While they chillin' loungin' I been busy filling in the bigger picture—it's a
mountain
Really, it’s astounding, building til they come and kill me
Put a bounty on me if you ‘bout it homie
Get it bouncing with us got the ounces lit up, yeah, the house is cloudy from
the loud we sparking
And the doggies in it like the pound they barking if they see a kitty then they
pouncing on it
Man we bound to get it til we drowning in it
Got announcements coming y’all surrounded listen
It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time
It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time
Or so they tell me
I’ve been working hard
I’ve been staying healthy
I’ve been earning karma
I’ve been moving stealthy
Had to tint the car I need my windows dark
And I’m by myself no one in it with me
I just hit the city yelling come and get me
Lord forgive me
Will I see tomorrow?
Man it’s fifty-fifty
All my time is borrowed
Hope they don’t forget me
I know she don’t love me she don’t even miss me
I don’t even blame her—got a messy history
It get heavy heavy, I been all alone
I can’t trust nobody ever since he showed me we were never homies
Shit, you never know
I don’t let ‘em close enough to get to know me
I’ve been learning lessons—really getting tested
Gotta testify, this my testimony
Yeah the devil want me he a step behind me
So I’m on the bridge and I’m doing ninety
Like it’s do or die, going through the fire
I might not survive, no, don’t remind me
The thrill send a chill down my spine
It’s too late I’m over the line
I’m from a whole different design
They know I’m one of a kind
It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time
It’s only a matter of time
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
I cannot wait on a sign
No backup, I’m back on my grind
She still in the back of my mind
But I can’t go back and rewind
I built the ladder I’m climbing up
It’s only a matter of time