Calm Down Lyrics - Joe Budden - Joe Budden

[Intro] 

Calm down... calm down... 

Baby just calm down... 

(Calm down...) 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Moms use to tell me to... calm down... 

Baby just calm down... 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Moms use to tell me to... calm down... 

(She would pray that I would) Baby just calm down... 

Calm down... 

[Joe Budden] 

Look, I was such a lost soul, just wanted to be down with something 

Look at your son now mommy I amounted to something 

You couldn't figure out, what I had messed with the streets for 

Cause you saw my genius without a SAT score 

I took drugs and laced it with things 

But you a addict yourself, 

For you I was people places and things (how the fuck you thought) 

Angeldust use to have me in the hallways twurked 

I tried to hide it, but Visine didn't always work 

I needed someone to blame in my mind 

I thought if you and dad never used dope I would a came out fine 

And so I igged you hard when you threw in advice 

Like what I want to talk to you about you ruined my life 

You the reason why I ended up a con and I knew it 

The reason I filled my body with that bomin fluid, mommy 

You the reason that my life's gone illegal 

The reason I'm kinda different, don't think like normal people, not calm 

[Chorus] 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Moms use to tell me to... calm down... 

(Use to pray that I would) Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Moms use to tell me to... calm down... 

(You got to understand what I was going through) 

Baby just calm down... 

Everything's gonna be alright 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Moms use to tell me to... calm down... 

(But a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all 

[Joe Budden] 

Listen... ain't shit like seeing your moms crying on the floor 

Knowing you the reason why she ain't alright no more 

But so young, I was like whatever 

You use to chase me through the house with the knife like get your life together 

Fucking drugs, how could I ever amp on you 

And what made me think that I could lay my hands on you 

I'm not surprised that you mad at me 

Much as you hated my father, your youngest son is just like his daddy 

Mommy I live life rude, how could you not understand it 

On the same note I'm just like you 

I got moms sensitivity, my fathers balls, 

His humor, his g, yet my heart is yours 

Fuck school, cause I had my major 

Come to grips that it ain't so much the drugs, it's the addict behavior (no) 

Wasn't the dip jar, it's the cut that came with it 

Wasn't really the smoking, but the rush that came with it (wasn't calm people) 

[Chorus] 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

Calm down... 

(but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all 

(do it with me people) Calm down... 

Calm down... 

(try to understand it) Baby just calm down... 

(those kind of things) Everything's gonna be alright 

Calm down... (just bare with me for a... for a brief moment y'all) 

Calm down... 

Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all 

[Joe Budden] 

I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so what 

Then when Angela stabbed me guess who showed up 

And when people said I?d always be ill and twisted 

And when the therapist had told us that the pills would fix it 

Was sick of being sick, I was finally hurt 

With all the praying that you did ma, it finally worked 

God gave you a son back, I won't offend you again 

Won't let the disease turn me against you again 

Use to be high as ever, (but I) Joey Jr. got his life together 

As a result, now we tighter than ever 

So blessed, so grateful to be seeing tomorrow (see the whole world) 

That's why I can't take a drink, not if even a swallow 

I can't picture me twisted, like what I'm a do now 

Haters I can't stop yet, my mothers to proud 

Secure now, don't need to be down with nothing 

Look at your son now mommy, I amounted to something 

I'm so calm 

[Chorus] 

Calm down... 

Calm down... 

(but a nigga wouldn't calm down) Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all (hold up) 

She use to tell me to... calm down... 

(Use to pray that I would) calm down... 

(But I couldn't, I couldn't, couldn't do it) Baby just calm down... 

(Nothing heals like time people) Everything's gonna be alright 

(Understand that) calm down... 

Calm down... 

(Fucking miracle) Baby just calm down... 

You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all 

(They said I wouldn't reach 21 y'all... I'm still standing) 

Calm down... 

Thanks ma... 

Calm down... 

I couldn't do it without you 

Calm down... 

Calm down... 

You are appreciated 

Calm down... 

Fa sho... 

Calm down... 

It's a slow process y'all 

One day at a time though... to get beautiful