You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E

[Monoxide]

It was me, my brother, and my mom and pops,
Just standing on the porch we heard shots
Somebody start tripping in the front of my house,
And start blasting at anybody walking around
I got shoved to the ground, And he got shot when he ran
Before the cops could even come, I knew my life began
I was only seven when this all went down,
But I was 7 mile when we stopped moving around
In the beginning it was different, but everything was cool,
Than it all started to change back in highschool
Wrong Crowd, That was me
In a pair of moon boots and some dungarees
Gettin chased out of school by some thugs and thieves,
Until I had to start bringin' a piece to walk me
This is how it was, and forever will be
Known as a look into my history

You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E

Now I'm 16 and I'm addicted to chicks
And the only thing on my mind is which one will I get,
I'm so sick with it, that my mom's ashamed
Cause every other day, it's a different game, a different name,
But the drama's the same, enough to drive me insane
Or better yet drive down the wrong way, down the wrong lane
Before the fame or change changed the charm,
I was hittin' dime pieces before the tats on my arm
Dropped out, 'cause me and school didn't fit,
Instead of hittin' tha books, I'd rather hit this bitch
Plus if I didn't stop, I'd probably get shot,
'Cause I'll be damned if I'm about to keep runnin' all of these blocks
Cross that out, I'd rather learn from the street,
Instead of just goin' to high school, to get my ass beat
This is how it was, and forever will be,
Known as a, look into my history

You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E

Parents trip, and I gotta get out,
All I do is sit around, and fuck chicks in a house,
And I got, no drive, and im almost twenty
No job, but I got chickens a-plenty
And I got one of 'em pregnant, From there we went to court
Now I'm twenty two years old, paying child support
This is just a couple of stories before we met
And maybe now you can see why I'm a little upset
You forget that I'm as human as you,
But you can really only know me by the music I do
I don't hold it against, or no taking offense,
I'm just showing the other side of my fence

You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E
You don't want to, see me
Y'all don't really wanna test me
M-O-N-OX-I-D-E