Lil JJ Reynolds - One Day At A Time Lyrics

Ya, one day at a time, one day at a time

Life is a tick clock, ticking from seconds to minutes
No time for loners with depression to be happy, while sinning
I spend a decade in destruction from pain and consequences
Feeling guilty with expenses in this world that's expensive
Allergic to this bubble of aggression that's pent up in my brain
My biggest side effect was going insane
Ripped up my silent death plans to live life on the edge, as an spokesman
Through music that controls my emotions
From escalating, dangerously, which built up reasons for me
To turn to what I never wanted to be
Til I had no choice but to accept me, now no more apologies
To the ones who won't accept me for me, respectively
Grinding, viciously, thru struggles and refusing to quit
Turning to a man that's legit, while squashing what's irrelevant, uh
Staying true and keeping fake-ness behind, while building faith inside my mind
One day at a time

A tree that fills a man's embrace, grows from a seed link
A tower, nine stories high, starts with one brick
And here's the most famous line out of a doubt
A journey of a thousand miles begins with what?
One first step, one first step

This 9 to 5 got me feeling dead inside and broke
Provoking odds stacked against me, almost made me lose hope
My empty skull is full of question marks, now where do I go?
In between surviving and tryin' to find myself, as I flow
On these empty pages, life is hard but I'll go with the flow
Even if I'm struggling to keep my soul warm when it's cold
On down this road onto my journey of inventing more sounds
Through hating busters and critics who mutes my style, y'all feel me now?
Brought up and raised on the east side from astray
Learned to respect myself in a way that never drives me away
From what I love and what inspires me to swim through these waves
On top of the storm of this evil curse that tries to lay me in the grave, uh
I gained more strength and built more heights, as I climbed
Repairing my heart to breathe more life in this life of mine
My destiny is peace to leave the dark for the shine, while building faith inside my mind
One day at a time

Take one step
I don't even know about tomorrow, I never think about tomorrow
All I know for sure is that this won't be the day
I do it, one day at a time
That's how you overcome anything, called an addiction in your life
You take it, you reconnect yourself to the source from which you came
Which is a source of what?

Twisted memories spinning up my thoughts in a knot
From every word on the sheet, adds a beat to my clock
Inside my heart that wouldn't stop, unless it wanted to vent
About the feelings from it's money that it already spent
On decent closure, but society would force an exchange on my brain
To accept the flaws of rejection and pain
As I became a loner, way before I grew with an illness
Like it was simply a curse sign to grow up and feel it
But no one witnessed what I suffered with, nor was it fair
But it was life and it's reality where no one cares
I dug my share on only caring for myself to survive
I lost myself in this generation that stripped me from my pride
That came with it's lies, that's why I couldn't find truth
I couldn't breathe in this air with a broken parachute
But no matter what I'm going through, I'll stay on my grind and keep the faith inside my mind
One day at a time

What am I doing here?
My body is breaking down
But the way that you finish the marathon
Is not by saying, "I'm going to run twenty six miles"
You don't do that, especially when you still got five or six to go
You just say to yourself, "can I put my foot in front of the next one?"
"Can I take it, one step at a time, can I do it, one step at a time?"
And before you know it, you've accomplished greatness