T.I. Verse 1

Observing the estate through the Gate from the outside looking in

Bet you would think i got it made,better look again

I Got a butler, got a maid,and a mansion the belief is that im living out a millionaires fantasy

But Phantoms and Farrari’s in the driveway

But you see the pain and the change of a same mans sanity

Your vision jaded by the Grammy’s on the mantle piece

Just switch your camera lenses, you would see the agony apparently its damaging the man you see before you

on the canvas he may seem alright but all the disadvantages his family encounters overshadows his extravagance

Walk in my nines a while, i dare you, it’ll scare you while it’ll surely seem like kings life’s aint glamorous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs, because the camera doesn’t see beyond the walls of the smiles on the castle till it falls in a pile

T.I. Verse 2

Honestly to me I think I’d loose every benefit of all that ive accomplished, if my kids never with it, shit

Me knowing this, why should the verses i have laid, be more important to me then the persons i have raised

I guess im saying that, to say that opportunity today just don’t equate to all the time it take away

From the kids all the shit I did right is a mistake, If Deyjah end up a stripper and Major out slangin yay

How could I ever consider my self a great,if Messiah ain’t paid and Nique Nnique ain’t straight

Would your favorite song about the whips, money and shit be relevant if you found out, the money wasn’t real, nope

So me being the G.O.A.T shouldn’t mean more to me to see it to a King though

From a bad ass kid, to a man with some dough, otherwise i may as well of stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefin with Flip or Shawty Lo, if Gucci or Ludacris or if im fucking with a hoe

Did I snitch when I got arrested, or will I die over nonsense, internally im dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I dont get the chance, to kiss the hand

Or slap me in the face, ay im just a man

If they sayin I aint the best at making hit records,its cuz this my life these aint just records

I bet ya aint think it all look that deep, did ya dawg?

See you can’t see the castle for the walls till it falls

Betcha aint think it was that deep , did ya dawg?

See you can’t see the castle for the walls till it falls

T.I. Verse 3

For the record ay, I give a damn if I never said shit againmy career was meant for me to come and tell thishonest interpretation of how affected I’m faced withmatters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basementevery day that I walk away I ain’t saying that I’m amazingdownplaying the way I kept fellas from catching caseswon’t take into consideration how much it mean what I’m sayingand when I say what I mean even when I’m surrounded by the fakersfrom one of the greatest centers, blessed with most of God’s graceswho made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest placesso next time you rating royaltyand more is being given to recordings than the level of your loyaltyobvious you’ve been ignoring mewho else ya seen make through the storm, unharmed this charmingwhile all the critics was lookin for Prince charmingdisregarded the King of The South but raised doubteven though he made a castle out what used to be a house did shit that all favorites rappers only rap aboutbut most of yall don’t see the castle for the wallsand the smiles til it falls in the piles so wow