One Day

I know one day I won't have to wait in line

I know one day I'ma get keys to that new ride

I know one day I'll be fine

And I know one day I'll get mine

And I know one day, hell it might be Monday

Uh, I remember thinking man I need a decent ride

And I would have to ask my momma for the keys to drive

With my brother riding in an old Cutlass

Black and mild lit, whole roof busted

Well who knows maybe one day we'll have a little more

We'll finally shop somewhere else besides the corner store

My little sister say she gotta have a pair of Dior's

But right now they'll probably stop us before we hit the door

My Uncle say that's how it is where we come from

And if it weren't for bad luck, we wouldn't have none

Hard to tell the good days from the bad ones

If I could catch a shooting star then I would grab one

I'd grab one for real

I know one day I won't have to wait in line

I know one day I'ma get keys to that new ride

I know one day I'll be fine

And I know one day I'll get mine

And I know one day, hell it might be Monday

Yeah, yeah, I remember feelin' trapped and no I couldn't get out

And when they laid my momma of no it just didn't amount

I still remember how she looked when she walked into the house

But still she tried her best to show what was Christmas about

And if we wanted hot water we had to microwave it

And every day the power cut off, but we tolerate it

The thoughts of all the beats I lost because I forgot to save 'em

I'm screaming at me in the mirror like "I gotta make it!"

My teacher tryin' to get through to me because of my behavior

I said, "I got big dreams and I gotta chase 'em"

I never cared a damn thing about a college major

I only had one need, that was a lot of paper

But see I never had a thing but a lot of prayers

After school, open mic night, rockin' stages

It all started from a demo to a limo from a limo to a Lambo

And all of this came up outta Decatur

I know one day I won't have to wait in line

I know one day I'ma get keys to that new ride

I know one day I'll be fine

And I know one day I'll get mine

And I know one day, hell it might be Monday

I used to dream about these days and the thing that I'd do

Had to get a new life, 'cause the old just won't do

I used to dream shades of gray, now the sky's shinin' blue

And everyday it feels like there's a way I can't lose

'Cause I knew one day I wouldn't have to wait in line

I knew one day I would get keys to that new ride

I knew one day I'd be fine

And I knew one day I'd get mine

Yeah, I knew one day, and not just Monday

Yeah

What motivates B.o.B?

Like, initially where you young and you trying to be heard

And you know, you broke tryna get money, then that shit motivation

You been able to have commercial success

You know what I'm saying? You doing shows, you eating and shit

So then people look like what-what he, you know, what's his struggle?

You know wh-, since I was a kid, man, like you know

I grew up in the house, you know I tell the story a lot of time but

You know I grew up in a house where, there really wasn't a house

You know, we literally grow up on a construction site, you know

We ain't have no doors and windows, no heat, AC (damn!), No refrigeration

You know, we used to put our food in a cooler at night

You know when the sun went down we had to go to sleep

'Cause we ain't have a light (damn! That's crazy)

So, mind you at-at the same time as I'm growing up

I'm thinking about the fact that these people in Third World countries is so way worse

That I've actually seen now traveling the world, performing and be like, yeah, you see me

They had way worse that this (exactly!)

And so it's like, I never really, I never really took my, my situation that much to heart

To the point where it was like a sad story for me, but it was more of a motivational thing

It was like a'ight, nothing would ever be this bad again