Someone get my city on the phone, tell them I'm coming home
Spend a different kind of life on the road, tell them I'm coming home
Maybe they won't make it where I come from, I think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road, tell them I'm coming home
This that motherfuck your couch, I'm Rick James
They don't know my story but I bet they know my name
Bet they knew my shin way before they knew my face
But I'd rather chase money than a story these days
Read all about, read all about it
Made it from the rubble through the struggle to the mountains
Now I'm looking down at all the reasons why I doubted
Almost lost my way for a second but I found it
Almost lost my way but that Moses with the game
Almost lost my brother, he got able with the game
Still can't feel my lungs but I'm in love with Mary Jane
Now I see the glass from different kinds of paper planes
I've never worked this hard to stay the same, I'm different
Got a new smile, got a new spirit, got a new heart, I'm lifted
Tell them bad man keep their distance, tell them bad man keep their distance
Someone get my city on the phone, tell them I'm coming home
Spend a different kind of life on the road, tell them I'm coming home
Many don't make it where I come from, I think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road, tell them I'm coming home
Someone get my mama on the phone, she don't have to miss me
Saving all the love I get for you, I go doomsday with me
Night time for my lovers, I get no one, I get demons with me
Now I roam the jungle with my pride, I go Simba's with me
I know they been plotting on my angels
But them shots can't both can say my hello
Save a penny, save a pound, save a peso
Hit the border for the lay low
Before I lay my crown, hope I grow to make a queen
Royal from the soil, throwing stones don't make a king
Pray I don't fall prey to violent things
Even when my back against the ring
I've never worked this hard to stay the same, I'm different
Got a new smile, got a new spirit, got a new heart, I'm lifted
Tell them bad man keep their distance, tell them bad man keep their distance
Someone get my city on the phone, tell them I'm coming home
Spend a different kind of life on the road, tell them I'm coming home
Many don't make it where I come from, I think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road, tell them I'm coming home
Govern, govern, govern, govern, govern people
Much reason to celebrate
Young black boy done made it you know
Let's be honest, I could've flexed way back when like Shakespeare with his bonnocks
Fell from grace, I don't need forgiveness until I'm old in age, reminiscing on my golden days
Teaching wrong from rights where my old mistakes hold the page
Let me get my mind right, these days I'd rather listen than talk
The wise man knows that he knows nothing at all
I put down the club in my evolutionary walk
That means I changed my own pathway before I could crawl as if fate decided
To let karma take the world, I am filled with a beautiful emptiness
Welcoming you are welcome, if any time to heal me then I'll be it
Whose words reach further, the man who whispers his peace to find peace
Or that who yells his troubles some to exalt his troubles
Won't you help me find the solace you promised
Trying hard to forget fleeting euphoria's
I can't keep on running if I don't know what from
I can't keep chasing a moment that's already gone
So if I reach for the stars hope I fall on the moon
And if I fall hopefully they don't forget me too soon
Tell my city I'm coming home
