Swing life away

Do I gotta scream like I did every day when I was a troubled teen?
Do you wanna know my past and see every single scar, know what they mean?
17, running up on Mickey Ds, begging for a double cheese
Saying I don't wanna grow up and nobody let you when you're 23
Came from nothing but I'm fuc***, I support a father I don't never see
I know what you're cooking, jury put my brother in a penitentiary
Never feeling criticism, made me the man I couldn't be
I'm reminiscing, oh, my life was different, spending every day at Chucky Cheese

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end
And all of these streets if you give me the chance I've been here so long
Maybe I should run away
Try to find a summer day
What is love? Love is pain
Love is butterflies and stomach aches
Love is looking out a windowpane
Tears dripping looking like you in the rain
For someone you don't even know
Or for somebody you may never see again
I am only alive once
And I'mma die when God wants
So fill the sky with diamonds
'Cause that's how is gonna look when I'm gone
Had a vision as a kid that one day
I would change the world with my song
Several years have passed and now that vision came to life
That boy's a fuc*** icon

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end
And all of these streets if you give me the chance Sometimes I don't wanna fuc*** wake up
When all they wanna do is bring me down
And all the things I went through as I came up
All the fuc*** reasons why I run this town

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end
And all of these streets if you give me the chance

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end
And all of these streets if you give me the chance

Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away
Swing life away