The older I get, the more I realizeAlmost everything I believed in my life was a lieIt started as a child, first was Santa ClausThen I believed that a brawl would never come between my dawgs, wrongMy sister Mary filled me in when I was sevenTold me Hulk Hogan only existed on television (what?)The Stone Cold Stunner and the Leg Drop, all scripted?N.W.O. and X-Pac?DangI used to walk up to them automatic doorsMy momma told me that my finger was the power sourceSo I pointed with my pointer, then, pow! It was open, then come to find out she was jokin'Had to let it soak in, my mind as a boy didn't wanna believe that McGwire or Barry were on the 'roidsBut, uh, when I was young, I thought the world was alrightIt's funny, I even thought that Jesus was white, but yoAll that glitters ain't made of goldIt's the thing you've heard a million times beforeIt took a little time, now I realizeNow I know better, it's better late than neverNow I knowOver the years, you get more accustomed to painUsed to believe my dad when he said he'd come to my gamesEven believed my mother was a saint and could do no wrongAnd then she sat me down and told me how I was born (shoot)Mind blown, but now it all makes senseWhy she didn't spazz on me when she caught me havin' sexI was perplexed but now I get itI used to think America was finished with racism, how could I miss it?I'm mad so many people don't get itHoldin' this list of black names, but now I'm blacklisted?Got older, it's like it got no differentI found out that these independent artists isn't independentCause major labels fund them quietly to keep perceptionThat's deception in the game, used to believe I wanted famePlus my name written in them lights, now I know it's so much greater cause it's written in the hand of ChristThen, I, I used to say the radio would play what the people wantedNow I know they playin' what's payin'Feelin' jaded, but somehow I still believe in GodI even thought a college education got me a job, manAll that glitters ain't made of goldIt's the thing you've heard a million times beforeIt took a little time, now I realizeNow I know better, it's better late than neverNow I knowYes, I know betterNow I know betterYes, I know betterNow I know better (took me a while)Yes, I know better (just to realize)Now I know betterYes, I know betterNow I knowToo many times before
