Castle Walls (feat. Christina Aguilera)

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty livin' behind

These castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screamin' behind

These castle walls?

There's no one here at all

Behind these castle walls

Observin' the estate through the gate from the outside, lookin' in

Bet you would think I got it made, better look again

I got a butler, got a maid and a mansion

The belief is that I'm livin' out a millionaire's fantasy

With Phantoms and Ferraris in the driveway

But you see, it came in exchange of a sane man's sanity

Your vision jaded by the Grammys on the mantlepiece

Just switch your camera lenses, you will see the agony

Apparently is damagin', the man you see before you

On the canvas, he may seem alright, but all the disadvantages

His family encounters overshadows his extravagance

Walk in my nines a while, I dare you, it'd scare you

While it surely seem like the king life seem glamorous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the camera doesn't see beyond the walls

Of the smiles on the castle till it falls in a pile

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty livin' behind

These castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screamin' behind

These castle walls?

There's no one here at all

Behind these castle walls

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit

Of all that I've accomplished if my kids never win at ****

Me knowin' this, why should the verses I've laid

Be more important to me than the persons I have raised?

I guess I'm sayin' that to say that opportunities today

Just don't equate to all the time it take away

From the kids, all the **** I did right is a mistake

If Deyjah end up a stripper and Major out slangin' yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If Messiah ain't paid and 'Nique-'Nique ain't straight?

Would your favorite song about the whips, money and ****

Be relevant if you found out that money wasn't rich?

Nope, so me bein' the goat

Shouldn't mean more than me to see it to a King, though

From a bad **** kid to a man with some dough

Otherwise, I may as well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefin' with Flip

Or Shawty Lo, Gucci or Ludacris, or if I'm **** with a hoe

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonsense?

Internally, I'm dealin' with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

That slapped me in the face, hey, I'm just a man

If they sayin' I ain't the best at makin' hit records

It's 'cause this my life, these ain't just raps

Betcha ain't think at all it was that deep, did you, dawg?

See, you can't see the castle for the walls till it falls

Betcha ain't think it was that deep, did you, dawg?

'Cause see, you can't see the castle for the walls till it falls

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty livin' behind

These castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screamin' behind

These castle walls?

There's no one here at all

Behind these castle walls

Nobody knows I'm all alone livin' in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom, but I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne, I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world, it's beautiful, but there's no place to fall

For the record, ay

I give a damn if I never said

**** again, my career was meant for me to come and tell this

Honest interpretation of how it felt to have faced with

Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

It's the day that I walk away they ain't sayin' that I'm amazin'

Downplayin' the way I kept fellas from catchin' cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm sayin'

And when I say what I mean, even when surrounded by the fakest

From one of the greatest sinners, blessed with most of God's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you ratin' royalty, and more is bein' given to recordings

Than the level of your loyalty, you obviously been ignorin' me

Who else you seen make it through the storm unharmed, this charmin'?

While all the critics was lookin' for Prince Charming

Disregarded the King of the South and raised doubt

Even though he made a castle out what used to be a house

Did **** that all your favorite rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see the castle for the walls

And the smiles till it falls in a pile so while

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty livin' behind

These castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screamin' behind

These castle walls?

There's no one here at all

Behind these castle walls