Artist: B.o.B Album: Strange Clouds Song: So Hard to Breathe Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash [B.o.B] Since day one I said fuck the fame and everything it dealt But the fame is really here just to facilitate the wealth But the wealth attracts you haters like you mosquitoes to a well and the water's getting deeper so I'm well set out to sail Someone called my cell, and left a voicemail that said congratulations on the million record sales As I'm flippin over furniture knockin shit off the shelf I told myself I'll never get too deep to take a breath but I'm sinkin [Chorus] And it's so hard to breathe, yeah And even more so to sleep when no one cares It was all I can eat, but now I'm sinkin, so deep I can't come up for air [B.o.B] Yeah - I've seen the valley, of the shadow of death I've seen the mountains, the wild childhood, that's why I sing about it I just try to move on and keep my peace about it But come to think about it I can't even count the days that I've spent, starvin tryin to find some decent housin That's why I'm always smilin but on this beat I seem so violent So ask me 'bout the music scene and what the fuck I think about it Time flies, I guess that's why I'm buggin Just yesterday I was rappin with my brother and my cousin If you had the stove or toaster on you couldn't use the oven We knew that we were strugglin we just acted like we wasn't It's either make it rappin, if not that then hustlin So all I see is magazine covers in this game You either surface or you plummet; it's a thin line and I'm just tryin to keep my head above it - DAMN~! [Chorus] [Interlude] Air, I-I-I I sink away, cause I sink away I sink away I sink away, I sink away Get carried away, get carried away But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans [Chorus] [Outro] Damn - this was never in the plans But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans Damn - this was never in the plans But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans Damn - this was never in the plans But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans Damn - this was never in the plans But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans But now I'm sinking, so deep I can't come up for air, airrrrrr Ah-ha-ahhhhh-ahhh-ah-ahhhhhhh