Today I Cried

Album: At Your Inconvenience (2011)
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  • I only went and fucking did it
    Used to be a dream but now I fucking live it
    Weren't even writing raps I was down and out about to fucking quit it
    Lucky for me that I fucking didn't
    See lily came along when I was at my lowest
    Selling wraps of coke not the raps I flow with
    I made it and I owe to a chat I had with her,
    Who knows where I'd be if that chat hadn't occurred
    Back with the bag, with the bag full of herbs in it
    Instead I got her on a track and I murdered it
    My name started causing murmurs in the industry
    But none of these labels would work with it until virgin did
    Put my first single out and we earned a hit
    That's why we never ?
    I know it must burn a bit
    Just did a show and everybody knew the words to it
    The day I risked everything for I couldn't have given
    Anything more all these years away everything
    But this is something that nothing could have readied me for
    What you think all my problems are remedied cos' I get an applause, there not

    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why
    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why

    My single went in at 3
    My album went in at 2
    For a debut not to shabby if I have to I make do
    Finally some form of reward for the things I came through
    But it's different to the perfect picture people paint you
    On the way up you might be a person people take to
    Then you break through and the same people who rated you hate too
    All of a sudden anything you may do may make news
    And I'm sick to death of explaining what is ain't true
    Spend a day in my shoes and maybe you would feel the same too
    Though I know I've got to make the most of it there will be no take 2
    And I'm grateful I would hate to see 'em cos' I'm leaving my dream now
    But I don't sleep now
    And all these hours awake are making me senile
    Snap ? to my final
    Even people I've been round my whole life are looking at me like I'm a new me now
    They say I've changed but I just don't see how
    I've always lived my life taking corners that I can't see round
    Never knowing what it is I'm trying to seek out
    But I'm even beginning to question me now

    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why
    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why

    (Don't know why I cried)

    I know it must seem mad to you
    It's mad to me
    All I've done is what I've had to do
    Been who I've had to be
    But the path I've walked has been so gravely
    It's been a strain to remain human amongst all this inhumanity
    Thankfully I had nan who was a mum and a dad to me
    You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
    Temporary happiness for me has been a fallacy
    ?
    Sick of hearing how happy I should be
    I just don't know how to be
    I can no longer pretend
    No more making out to be
    Maybe all I needs a slap,
    Someone to shake it out of me
    Help me to spell my irrational thoughts think more rationally
    Sick of being in the state of vanity
    It's agony
    Am I torn or is it all some twisted form of vanity
    Can it be I'm really just obsessed with myself,
    Obsessive compulsive depressed, my pressures reflecting my health
    Taking care of my career but I'm neglecting myself
    Rejected therapy no I just won't except any help
    I pride myself on my honestly but in all honestly today I lied
    I was asked how I was and I said I was fine, I'm not

    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why
    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why
    Today I cried
    And I don't know why
    But today I cried
    And I don't know why Writer/s: Alexander Hayes, Edward Hayes, Stephen Manderson
    Publisher: Bucks Music Group, Royalty Network, TUNECORE INC, TuneCore Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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