Lonely at the Top (Bonus)

Bah-bah-bah, buh-bah-bum-bah

Buh-buh-buh, bum-bah

Bah-di-ah-di-ah

Bah-bah-bah, buh-bah-bum-bah

Buh-buh-buh, bum-bah

Bah-di-ah-di-ah

Yeah, listen, I want to help my favorites

To find that spark again

Somewhere deep in their hearts again

Man, chasin' them is how I made it

I felt this for a while, but couldn't frame it

In the proper rhythms, it seems like they stopped just givin' a fuck and I fuckin' hate it

'Cause where you supposed to look on days when you feel unmotivated?

When all your heroes either disappeared or sound so deflated

The younger generation, hell if I know, I won't debate it

But they want what I got right now, and one day they gon' obtain it

Still, I find it hard to replicate what I'm longin' lately

That childish admiration like back when I had posters hangin'

I do my best with this verse, but shit, maybe there's no explainin'

Just ventin', it's no complainin', but listen to me

For years, I felt like an only child with no one to play with

The older kids I watched run up the slides the wrong way or hang upside down from monkey bars

While I was looking from afar, just hopin' for that future day

When I'd be able to do the same shit and now that day's hit

Mama done let me come outside, but now them slides are vacant

The big boys done skated

They pockets got too grown, for some, it seems that love is gone

And now they pass the time with expensive glasses of wine at locations with the finest accommodations

And I ain't hatin', just more so thinkin' 'bout complacence and the realization

That one day that's what my fate is

Their greatest hits fill up my playlist, not so much their latest

And I fuckin' hate it

For selfish reasons, I think I could help them reignite the flame and fall in love with this again

If they could trust in young Jermaine, we'd do our drills, we'd shake the rust

We'd blow the dust off of the pain and go shake up the game

And maybe then, I'd have someone I want to be again

But even as I write that thought, I don't believe it, dang

'Cause maybe it wasn't even them, it's really me that changed

Maybe it wasn't even them, it's really me that changed

Hmm, shit

I never understood the phrase "it's lonely at the top"

Until I scaled that mountain all the way up till it stopped

And if you're ever blessed enough to make it to this spot

You'll see the ones you looked up to, unfortunately, had to drop

I never understood the phrase "it's lonely at the top"

Until I scaled that mountain all the way up till it stopped

And if you're ever blessed enough to make it to this spot

You'll see the ones you looked up to, unfortunately, had to drop