5AM IN PHILLY Lyrics – Meek Mill

Read the full 5AM IN PHILLY lyrics by Meek Mill along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Meek Mill’s music, you can also explore ROBBIE SON and Proud of Me, two other songs by Meek Mill.

[Intro]
Scary times
Please, hold me close in these scary times
Don’t say you love me and then change your mind
I need someone who understands
I’m just a man, just a man

[Verse]
Chopper by the bed, glizzy by the door
How you think I’m supposed to live when only thing I see is war?
Yesterday, was on the ‘Gram, I seen a baby on the floor
They said they hit him with a bomb, and that kid ain’t with his mom
And I’m used to seeing death ’cause I’m from Philly where n!ggas die
Where the blacks kill blacks and I can’t even tell you why
I know n!ggas stuck in beef and they can’t even tell you how
If you strapped, you go to jail, but if you ain’t, you gon’ die
(Scary times)
And yeah, I cried on the news when I had changed that law
And n!ggas still talking ’bout me, s*it got changed for y’all (Please, hold me close in these scary times)
I been famous since eighteen, I ain’t really change at all
(Don’t say you love me and then change your mind)
N!ggas getting in your head, that s*it might change your dog
I change my drawers, then put on my Glock when I wake up
(I need someone who understands)
Crazy part, that s*it just made my block really break up
I’m the motivation, I made n!ggas get their cake up
(I’m just a man, just a man)
Caught n!ggas with their face down, and I made ’em put they face up
I been trying shine since Christina have had them Jacobs
Now it’s Richard Millie when she see me fix her makeup
Flying twelve hours, I be in Ghana when I wake up
Ain’t no real n!ggas believe that lying s*it they made up (Scary times)
I stand on everything I said, well, I’ma stay up (Please, hold me close in these scary times)
Tryna take my homie out the country ’cause he cased up
My other brother, life inside a cell, they got him caged up (Don’t say you love me and then change your mind)
Eighteen years and ain’t seen him since, they tryna break us
I’m riding through the trenches, two hundred shots, they tryna take us

I gotta make it home to Lil’ Poppy, he got an A plus
I’m so popping, they throwing propaganda, you better wake up (I’m just a man, just a man)
I’m just a—
How you gon’ tell me you love me and change your mind?
I’m reading everything, wrote a book about all your lies
I’m peeping everything, so who crooked that’s in the squad?
My homie lying to me while he looking me in my eyes, and s*it (Change your mind)
It kinda hurt me, but really wasn’t surprised (I need someone who understands)
When the blind lead the blind, it can really fu*k your mind
And the time meet the time, you forty without a dime (I’m just a man, just a man)
And the only thing you own is a .40 and a little .9
So if he kill something, that’s the only way he gon’ shine
I got a Richie, he get sixty years, we both doing real time
Only difference is, I made it rapping, putting in real time
I still be talking pain, s*it, my people still dying, still crying
It was crab in the barrel, still climb
N!ggas tried to put me down, when I got out, still throw a line
Doing too much for these people, getting tough, ain’t gon’ lie
Like I ain’t had the city flying private real time (Scary times)
I had n!ggas at the clearport that never been to the airport (Please, hold me close in these scary times)
Acting like they got an attitude, fu*k is you here for?
Go back to the hood and bite my back, what you there for?
(Don’t say you love me and then change your mind)
Broke boys hating on the king, why would you care for? I’m here for
Everybody that was with me when I had a bad storm (I need someone who understands)
Everybody acting like they with me, all this glass on
5 a.m. in Philly, riding ’round, I got my mask on (I’m just a man, just a man)
These times y’all pass on
Hating on your brother life, that’s a bad jawn
I ain’t seen my son in nights, that’s a bad jawn
My homie in another life, that’s a bad jawn
5 a.m. in Philly, riding ’round, I got my mask on

[Outro]
Scary times
Please, hold me closely in these scary times
Don’t tell me you love me and then try to change your mind
I need someone who understands
I’m just a man, I’m just a man