Cheer Up - J. Cole

Even through the joy I feel the pain

Even in the sun I feel the rain

Even when I’m high I feel the lows

Like that’s all I know

And Lord knows I can’t complain

But even when I do it feels the same

I’m getting high just to fight the lows

Cause that’s all I know

Yeah, school girl, cool girl

You dressing sexy and your mama is a cougar

So she let you do the grown folks thang

Let you hang with them boys and they play you like a fool, girl

You got your new hair, it look so good

You write the same nigga’s name in your notebook

You know the same one from class, the one you let smash

Now you see him 'round school and he won’t look

Now girl you is fine, ain’t no doubt about it

But why else you think he hit it and forgot about it?

It’s cause your mind don’t match what your ass got

But cheer up, you gotta be your own mascot

You see you’re lookin' for a man like you need somebody

Get your ass off of Twitter, you could be somebody

A doctor, a rock star, baby live life

But you rather wet up all your pillows all night thinking…

Even through the joy I feel the pain

Even in the sun I feel the rain

Even when I’m high I feel the lows

Like that’s all I know

And Lord knows I can’t complain

But even when I do it feels the same

I’m getting high just to fight the lows

Cause that’s all I know

That’s all I know, that’s all I know

That’s all I know, that’s all I…

Hey cheer up!

Ey lil' mama, cheer up!

You got your whole life to live, ey why you wanna tear up?

Don’t let them lil' boy come but do some when they try push up

Hey, hey

Yeah, I wake up in the morning and I ask myself

Is life worth living, should I blast myself?

Don’t even wanna get out the bed

I got the Glock to my head, feel I rather be dead

Hey, am I hopeless?

Raised with rats and roaches

Never liked them teachers, couldn’t stand my coaches

Ask «what's the matter?»

but you can’t relate

Living the life that you hate but you can’t escape

Feel like I’m stuck here, that’s why I don’t give a fuck here

There’s no luck here, nobody to trust here

My own mother, yeah I love her

But things I heard as a child under my covers

Left me with scars, it was hard to see her suffer

Darkened my heart and I don’t know if I’ll recover

I’m going under and as I’m headed out the front door

She said she proud of me and I wonder what for?

And once more

Even through the joy I feel the pain

Even in the sun I feel the rain

Even when I’m high I feel the lows

Like that’s all I know

And Lord knows I can’t complain

But even when I do it feels the same

I’m getting high just to fight the lows

Cause that’s all I know

That’s all I know, that’s all I know

That’s all I know, that’s all I…

Hey cheer up!

Ey lil' mama, cheer up!

You got your whole life to live, ey why you wanna tear up?

Don’t let them lil' boy come but do some when they try push up

Hey, hey