Logic - In Retrospect Lyrics

What?

Here we are, money on my mind (now)
Here we are, place most never find (now)
Here we are, I'm not coming down (now)
Here we are, lifetime from the ground (now)
Here we are, money on my mind
How much do it cost to keep it real with ya?
Here we are, place most never find
How much do it cost to be a real nigga?
Here we are, I'm not coming down
Open your eyes and see the real picture
Here we are, a lifetime from the ground
How much do it cost to keep it real?

It's going down like that Maybach
I'm living it up like I never could back in the days way back
Write it record it, let the people absorb it
I'm morbid and want more of it on the the 101 flooring it
The definition of a schmirical rapper
It's been a decade it's a miracle I'm still a rapper (now)
Yeah, you the furthest from innovative
No wonder the people hate it
In the back of the Mercedes getting faded
When it comes to the flow you know I confiscate it then made it better
I pull strings like the guitarist in Greta Van Fleet
My camp meet at the pinnacle like Everest, like Mike Posner
Far from a poser, my flows are crazy I thought I told ya
Better hold ya money tight 'fore I snatch that shit
Roll it light it up and then pass that shit
People got problems but use substances to mask that shit
We past that shit, you better seek therapy human
What the f*ck is we doing? Killing one another for nothing
Man most of these people is bluffing
Acting like they got the world in they hand but really got nothing
Why you think they Twitter fingers be aching?
'Cause they forsaken what it means to be a person
And worsen their mental daily by involving themselves in extracurricular activities
I am the blackest white boy that you've ever seen, nigga, please
It's apparent my skin is transparent
Only color I ever really gave a f*ck about was green
Only people I f*ck with is my family, friends and my team
Twenty albums in under a decade, bitch, I'm a machine
Talking 'bout you don't like Logic, bitch, what the f*ck do you mean?
Why you listening to me then? Why you watching on your screen?
'Cause I'm all you have in the world at this moment
And the fact that I'm winning and you ain't winning hurts, don't it?
You see, I know you're not a hater, not really, not deep down
You just got a lot going on that you keep deep underground
Maybe you was molested, even beaten as a child
And when you see other people this happy it drives you wild
How did I know this? How do I know this?
'Cause I myself was beaten and molested
God drug me through the fire every day I was tested
'Cause really when you look at me what you see is a mirror
That reflects who you wish you really was but even clearer
And makes you uncomfortable that I'm comfortable with who I am
That's that reason that you hate and the reason that you stan
The reason that you obsess, you're my biggest fan
So my advice is seek therapy and find clarity
I know you hate me but I love you with sincerity

Here we are, money on my mind
How much do it cost to keep it real with you?
Here we are, a place most never find
How much do it cost to be a real nigga?
Here we are, I'm not coming down
Open ya eyes and see the real picture
Here we are, a lifetime from the ground
How much do it cost to keep it real?
Here we are, money on my mind
How much do it cost to keep it real with you?
Here we are, a place most never find
How much do it cost to be a real nigga?
Here we are, I'm not coming down
Open ya eyes and see the real picture
Here we are, a lifetime from the ground
How much do it cost to keep it real?

Thank God for synthetic gravity and ribeye that never came from a cow
I still don't understand how we grow meat without livestock
The marvels of AI, my friend
But wasn't it also because of AI
That every country in the entire world deployed nukes
As an auto defense against Russia's initial attack on the New Americas?
Mmh, I mean, but the steak though
Uh, so good