treading water - mgk

Lyrics by：Colson Baker/Derek "Mod Sun" Smith

Composed by：Colson Baker/Derek "Mod Sun" Smith

Produced by：SlimXX/BazeXX/Nick Long/No Love For The Middle Child/Mod Sun

And oh what a life to live

When you're dying for someone to give

To give you their love

To give you their love

Lie awake stargazing I won't sleep till morning

Echoes of your words sayin' "Don't write a song for me"

Everything is wrong in me raised under wings of demons

And even if God's with me without you I have no reason

This'll be the last time you hear me say sorry

That'll be the last tear you waste on me crying

I broke this home

And just like my father I'll die alone

And oh what a life to live

When you're dying for someone to give

To give you their love

To give you their love

I'm lookin' at the kids' faces sittin' in the driveway

While I pack up suitcases I just ruined their holiday

And lies don't die they grow

And everything you try to hide eventually shows

The beast killed the beauty the last petal fell from the rose

And I loved you truly that's why it's hard to let it go

I broke this home

But I'll change for our daughter so she's not alone

Oh what a life to live

When you're dying for someone to give

To give you their love

To give you their love

And oh what a life to live

Oh what a life to live

When you're dying for someone to give

When you're dying

To give you their love

To give you their love

To give you their love

Mmm

I wrote this in room 3 spending Christmas in rehabilitation

I got no phone just a cell that I'm trapped in while my home's vacant

I'm an inpatient but I lost patience I just broke something but I'm fixated

On the gossip that I know is happenin' while I'm just being left out of the conversation

It's a complicated relationship that's nobody's business but I'm in this business face it

I've been hiding from the ideation that the public has of ruinin' my reputation

And it's crazy seeing quotations from a source that somebody curated

'Cause for me y'all can feel pure hatred but just keep our baby out the situation

It's a long road to redemption and a shorter one to damnation

I know which one is my destination but the journey doesn't come without the frustrations

Like it doesn't come without the temptations and failure can lead to an elevation

'Cause sometimes you gotta see what's waiting on the other side to know your soul's worth savin'

And oh what a life to live

When you're dying for someone to give

To give you their love

To give you their love