Lonely at the Top Lyrics – J. Cole

Read the full Lonely at the Top lyrics by J. Cole from the album The Fall-Off along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy J Cole’s music, you can also explore 39 Intro and Old Dog, two other songs by J Cole.

[Verse]
Yeah, listen I want to help my favorites
To find that spark again
Somewhere deep in their hearts again
Man, chasing them is how I made it
I felt this for a while, but couldn’t frame it
In the proper rhythms, it seems like they stopped just like giving a fu*k and I fu*king hate it
‘Cause where you supposed to look on days when you feel unmotivated?
When all your heroes either disappeared or sound so deflated
The younger generation hellify, no I won’t debatе it
But they want what I got right now and one day they gon’ obtain it
Still I find it hard to rеplicate what I’m longing lately

That childish admiration like back when I had posters hanging
I do my best with this first, but s*it maybe there’s no explaining
Just venting, it’s no complaining
But listen to me
For years I felt like an only child with no one to play with
The older kids I watched went up the slides the wrong way or hang upside down from monkey bars while I was looking from a far just hoping for that future day when
I’d be able to do the same s*it, but now that day’s hit
Momma done let come outside, but now them slides are vacant
The big boys done skated
They pockets got too grown, for some it seems that love is gone
And now they pass the time with expensive glasses of wine at locations with the finest accommodations
And I ain’t hating just more so thinking about complacence and the realization that one day that’s what my fate is
The greatest hits fill up my playlist, not so much the latest
And I fu*king hate it
For selfish reasons I think I could help them reiginite the flame and fall in love with this, a game
If they could trust in young Jermaine we’d do our drills, we’d shake the rust, we blow the dust off the pain and go shake up the game
And maybe then I’d have someone I want to be again
But even as I write that thought I don’t believe it, dang
‘Cause maybe it wasn’t even them, it’s really me that changed
Maybe it wasn’t even them, it’s really me that changed
Hmm, s*it

[Chorus]
I never understood the phrase “It’s lonely at the top”
Until I scaled that mountain all the way up ’til it stopped

And if you’re ever blessed enough to make it to this spot
You’ll see the ones you looked up to unfortunately had to drop
I never understood the phrase “It’s lonely at the top”
Until I scaled that mountain all the way up ’til it stopped
And if you’re ever blessed enough to make it to this spot
You’ll see the ones you looked up to unfortunately had to drop