Heroin - Cam Meekins

They always wonder why I talk that shit

It’s 'cause I’ve seen a lot of messed up shit

A lot of messed up kids that turned bad man they coulda been kings

Yeah

Every, every, yeah, uh

They always wonder why I talk that shit

It’s 'cause I’ve seen a lot of messed up shit

A lot of messed up kids that turned bad man they coulda been kings

Anxiety has got me stressing, am I better than this?

I wanna tell my story, I ain’t looking for sympathy

It’s like these kids don’t realize how fragile this shit can be

I was 18, just got put on to the scene

Out in Boston doing shows, I was trying to do me

Has a group of friends running around and they was older than me

A couple of them had some problems with some drugs

They was in the program, sorry to touch up on the subject, dawg

It ain’t a slow jam, this real life, I had no plan

He was managing the club we would all perform at

I wanted to be famous and he said he had the format

Homie started managing me and pretty soon

We started traveling and doing shows, jamming to beats

We had this one show in New Jersey, Mac Miller was headlining

The school of rock in Hackensack, maybe it was bad timing

But homey he was sober, I was young and drinking

So he drove the car home, I guess I wasn’t thinking

We’re cruising down the highway, it was 2 in the morn

Back then it’s no hotel, no getting paid to perform

My homie’s in the driver seat, starts falling asleep

I’m screaming, «Wake the fuck up» this dude’s crashing my jeep

He comes back to life, we stay cruising through the night

I ain’t think nothing of it other than the dude was tired

I guess I should’ve realized the bigger picture

But pretty soon I’ll find out but damn God I miss you

This ain’t really, this ain’t how shit goes

No one ever, no one ever knows

If you feel me don’t let your friends go

Down that road man, man we all should know

This ain’t really, this ain’t how shit goes

No one ever, no one ever knows

If you feel me don’t let your friends go

Down that road man, man we all should know

We all think this can’t happen to us

But nowadays all it take is a injury to get on some drugs

He was the plug telling everybody about Cam Meekins

And then we found out that he was getting high before all his meetings

From Percocets to Oxys, pretty soon it’s heroin

And then he found a savior and pretty soon she married him

And that was that, he skipped town on bad terms

Had some shit with club promoters, he ain’t hold up his word

He ain’t manage me no more but you know how it is

You wanna give these people help, you got your own life to live

Shit that’s how I justified it and pretty soon

I had more money and more problems, shit I’m up to my eyelids

And I’m sorry for the rant but then I signed a deal

And thought that he was upset he ain’t get no money from the event

We had a falling out, we all chucked it up

To homie figuring out his life out, we all shut him out

And this here is the lesson to learn, most of the time

People burning bridges on you, there’s a reason they burn

Sometimes it’s a cry for help but who am I

To be the bigger person 'cause I’m getting fucked up myself

Not drugs but the herb, but should I be concerned

Is it my responsibility when somebody is hurt

This shit’s an epidemic, right?

But still it took me

Six years just to get this fucking pennant right

I wish I had the answer, the government doesn’t

I know you’re listening right now but know somebody who doesn’t

This dude nodded off while he had my life in his hands

We can’t talk no more so this is how I write to you fam

When you don’t do drugs yourself you think these people selfish

But when you think about it man, addiction is hell, shit

I’m 'bout to call my homie, try making it right

That’s when I got the text that he had taken his life

This ain’t really, this ain’t how shit goes

No one ever, no one ever knows

If you feel me don’t let your friends go

Down that road man, man we all should know

This ain’t really, this ain’t how shit goes

No one ever, no one ever knows

If you feel me don’t let your friends go

Down that road man, man we all should know