Growing Apart (To Get Closer) Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 [Chorus: Jhene Aiko]

2 Where are we going? Why are we slowing down?

3 Where are you going? We should be growing now

4 [Kendrick Lamar]

5 Smoke to it nigga, smoke to it nigga

6 [Chorus]

7 [Kendrick Lamar]

8 That's what she said to me

9 That place I used to call home is just a bed to me

10 and we don't even sleep, neighbors can hear her weep

11 Meanwhile I'm in these streets with everybody

12 I'm trying to get it and she know they got me, I watch her feelings watch me

13 As they staring with the saddest eyes of loneliness

14 Look each other in the face and barely blink

15 I tried to make it right but the pen ran out of ink

16 So if my letters don't reach you, I hope these lyrics in sync

17 [Chorus]

18 [Kendrick Lamar]

19 That's what it said to me

20 But that place I call ambition now dead to me

21 Gone and forgotten, I'm off track like Dale Earnhardt

22 My liver rotten, alcoholic tripping

23 Fucking bad bitches and they got bad intentions

24 Club night, guys and dolls

25 Balling out, but I'm bout to drop the ball

26 I'm calling out for help, my engineer called

27 Told me come to the studio, I wanna tell him nah

28 [Chorus]

29 [Kendrick Lamar]

30 That's what he said to me

31 But that place we call Heaven unfair to me

32 Only a hundred and forty-four can go

33 Seven billion people on planet earth today

34 Is there something that I don't know?

35 I know to follow him, rather following people

36 or follow vanity cause that means I'm following evil

37 Guess I'm following evil, I should follow cathedral

38 Blessings I need, but live like I don't need you

39 [Chorus]

40 [Kendrick Lamar]

41 So in conclusion

42 We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise

43 Forgetting the big picture and making it wallet size

44 So to what's important in my life, I apologize

45 I promise to stay faithful, focused and sanctified

46 We all get distracted

47 The question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

48 Would you not know how to act or take action? It's just a part of life

49 And if your vision's impaired, you probably lose it all tonight

50 [Jhene Aiko]

51 I'm trying to visualize how to get it right

52 But my vision's so blurry

53 Trying to slow it down, stay close to the ground

54 But we're always in a hurry now

55 And if I could make this world stand a little slower

56 Then I would, then we could grow a little closer

57 I think we're getting closer

58 I think we're getting closer