they wanna see me fall i been on my own doin good they think i m prodigal why am i here if i don t got a goal in my room and never on the road always knew i was an outcast way before i heard of andre sat alone in the lunchroom never ate the food my mom made wrote rhymes in the math class turned everything in all late knew one day i d be a dropout mom i wanna be like kanye young man with a plan young bull with the vans got the vision at a glance saw it comin in advance knew i had to take a chance aye turned my haters into fans aye turned my heroes into competition oh yeah we throwin hands aye been on my own ain t had a team i had to grow yeah yeah ain t make the cut snuck in the league now i m a pro yeah yeah i had a dream that when i leave i ll be the goat yeah yeah now they want me but it s too late i got no room they wanna see me fall i been on my own doin good they think i m prodigal why am i here if i don t got a goal in my room and never on the road i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah yeah take you back to 9th grade had like only 2 friends parents worried bout grades i couldn t have cared less tried to find me an escape started messing with the pen looked silly back then but knew it work out in the end didn t really go to parties back then they didn t want me used to keep up with the trends now i m the one they wanna copy couldn t keep up with my classes overdosin on coffee knew i couldn t end up normal but the future looked foggy aye take you back to graduation i was going through some changes on the way to go to college wondered if i d really make it life hit me like a train then i was running out of patience told mom i gotta drop out opportunity is fading  they wanna see me fall i been on my own doin good they think i m prodigal why am i here if i don t got a goal in my room and never on the road i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah i know i can t stay yeah