One Night - Akira the Don, Theo Von

So anyhow

Wasn’t getting crazy into drugs or anything like that

But I had one night where I ended up in a taxi cab

And a woman said something to me, kinda rejected me

In, like, a mean way

And I hadn’t done anything wild I just expressed some interested

And she expressed interest and then I returned the expression and then she was

mean to me

And she didn’t reject me, rejection’s fine, but she was mean to me, all a sudden

The taxi driver dropped her off, we were in a taxi

Next thing you know, I end up with the taxi driver

Four hours later me and him are doing cocaine together

And I’m driving the taxi

He’s in the back, he’s in the back with an escort

He bought me an escort I don’t want no escort, you know

Luigi, that was the guy’s name

And we’re in north Harlem and I’m driving a taxi and the meter is still running

I’m still paying for that taxi

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

And that morning I was in New York because I had to be on a big radio show

called «The Opie with Jim Norton Radio Show»

And they have, like, a million listeners and it was a huge opportunity

If you’d have asked me the night before, «Hey, man, are you gonna stay up all

night partying, (go, girl) before you go into the radio?»

I’d have said, «No way I would never do that.»

And then here I was in this moment and it’s 5:00 a.m. I gotta go to the radio,

you know

I mean, I got to my hotel after driving taxi and then paying for it

Dude, just blown outta my mind, dude I couldn’t feel my face with either hand

At first I thought something was wrong with my hands but then I realized

something wrong with my face

I get to the radio station

Dude, I took three showers in 10 minutes before I went there

So you know you on some really svelte dust if you’re taking three showers in 10

minutes and drying off between each one

And that’s cocaine, Papa

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

And I get to the radio station

And I can’t even talk

And the other guest for the day was Darryl Strawberry, Hall of Fame baseball

player

And he’s, you look him up and he’s one of the greatest baseball players ever

but his career was really a-altered by cocaine

And here he was I was on the radio with him I had collected his cards when I

was young and I couldn’t even talk

(I couldn’t even talk)

The main gift that God had given me was my voice and I couldn’t even use it

Because I’d been up all night

Just using drugs to feel good somehow

Using drugs to feel good somehow

Using drugs to feel good somehow

Or using drugs to feel anything

Using drugs to feel good somehow

U-using drugs to feel good somehow

Using drugs to feel good somehow

Or using drugs to feel anything

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

I wasn’t getting crazy

But I had one night

I had one night, I had one night

And I get to the radio station 'cause I’d always thought in my head, «Oh,

Darryl Strawberry, you think, you thought about him, and you thought, oh,

he’s on drugs he’s this and that, he ruined his life.»

But then here he was in front of me, he was 13 years sober, he was eloquent,

successful

And I mean he was a dang king sitting in front of me

And in that one moment that’s where some things lined up in my life

That’s where some things lined up in my mind and said, «oh, hey, look»

Here you are with this gift you think you have

That you can communicate

And you can’t even talk because you fucked up, bruh

'Cause you been out driving taxi

And here you are with somebody who you had judged as being fucked up and here

he is, a king

And it just lined things up in a perfect moment where I just had this moment of,

like, «Oh, I need to»

Something needs to change for me