Lonely at the Top (Bonus)

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Yeah, listen, I wanna 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 like 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 first, 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 went up the slides the wrong way

Or hang upside down from monkey bars while I was lookin' from a far

Just hopin' for that future day when

I'd be able to do the same shit, but now that day's hit

Momma 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' about 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 blow the dust off the pain and go shake up the game

And maybe then I'd have someone I wanna 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

Hm, shit

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

Until I scaled that mountain all the way up 'til 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 'til 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