So Hard To Breathe lyrics - B.o.B

[Verse 1:]

Since day 1 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 waters 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 flipping over furniture knocking shit off the shelf

I told myself I'll never get too deep not to take a breathe

But I'm sinking

[Hook:]

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah

And even more so to sleep when no one cares

It was all I can need

But now I'm sinking

So deep, I can't come up for air

[Verse 2:]

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, starving tryna find some decent housing

That's why I'm always smiling 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 bugging

Just yesterday I was rapping 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 struggling, we just acted like we wasn't

It's either make it rapping, if not that than 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 tryna keep my head above it

Damn...

[Hook:]

And it's so hard to breathe

And even more so to sleep when no-one cares

It was all I can need

But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air

[Bridge:]

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

[Hook:]

And it's so hard to breathe

And even more so to sleep when no-one cares

It was all I can need

But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air

Damn, this was never in the plans, but hey it's a long way from beating pots and pans [x3]

But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air, air