Coming From (feat. Mary J. Blige)

Believe me, when I say

Before light, there was a dark

Where you going, where you going?

Where you going, where you going?

Where you going?

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Where) Where would I go?

(Where) If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Ohh) Where would I go? (Where would I go?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

Where would I go? (Where would I go?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Ohh) Where would I go? (Where you going?)

Place that I've been, things that I have seen

What you call a nightmare are what I have as dreams

Bad as that may seem, I know is only going to get worse

Love, or a slug, which one am I gonna get first?

My journey's been a rough one, I'm not sure when it begins

But the way it's looking, I kind of know when it's gonna end

What? Said love, hold me down, baby, it's gonna be a rough ride

**** gave us plenty of room, 'cause I guess enough died

Let me travel, 'cause my intentions are to travel in peace

But fuck around, I lay you down, you hit the gravel and cease

I could be a beast, or I could be a gentleman

But if you ain't my dog, you gonna be like, oh, it's him again

**** will never win, this whole rap game is mine

Hot as you ever been, I was that in eighty nine

Seek and you shall find, look within and you will know

Where you coming from and where you gotta go

Come on

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Where) Where would I go? (Where would I go?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(If I don't know) Where would I go? (Gotta keep it real with me)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(So the hell with you) Where would I go? (Now, where am I going?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(I think I'm going to the top) Where would I go? (Me and DMX)

I will spend mad time in one spot plotting my next move

Trying to figure out what is it that X do what X do

Some questions go unanswered, that's what I'm afraid of

Sometimes I can't show, but I know what I'm made of

They made love, or should I say they made lust

Bound, there didn't have to be love there, but they made us

I got quite a few sisters, I was the only boy

But being with my dog was my only joy (Come on)

Like a kid with a now toy, I forgot about the grime

Escaped the misery, didn't think about the crime

Lost all track of time, was in another world

Everybody knew Earl, but there was another Earl (Come on)

Lighter side of the dark, fighting in the park but wouldn't wanna

Stay and fought, but when they jump me, became a good runner

One by one, they all went under, so I had the last laugh

They all thought it all was a joke, but I had the last laugh

(Ha ha ha ha ha ha)

Come on

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(If I don't know, I don't know) Where would I go? (Where would I go?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Yay yeah) Where would I go? (Where we going, where we going?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

Where would I go? (But I know where I'm going)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Do you know, do you know?) Where would I go?

I feel the ghost from within coming back to haunt me

Stay love in my peoples even though they don't want me

When I was bad, I was forgotten, like I was dead and rotten

Should've been getting love, but instead was plotting

Shit wasn't right and it was all blamed on me

Didn't know that I was special till this rap shit came to be

Gave me a way out, showed me it was better to teach

Than bust **** with the .44, leave them dead in the streets

Over beef that was worthless than the cost of the slugs

That I bought to kill 'em

And that's because I thought I ought to kill 'em

Little did I know, death wasn't right

Didn't always show every breath was a life

It was to be captured in suspended animation

To be felt by all, understood by every nation

What's the sense of hating when I can show love?

What's the sense of faking when I can show blood?

(Now, what's the moral to this story?)

Come on

If I don't know where I'm coming from

Where would I go? (Where would I go?)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(If I don't know, I don't know) Where would I go?

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(I don't know) Where would I go? (But I know where I'm going)

If I don't know where I'm coming from

(Do you know where you're coming from?) Where would I go?

Yonkers is where we grew

Trials we got through

On top is where we staying

Till the end, as long as we pray

BK is whistler's play

Thin tracks is every day

On hot '97 ya hear

DMX all through the year