Not Going Back - Childish Gambino

It seems like they all want me to fail

But I'm not going back

Not going back baby

Please tell me you don't want me to fail

Cause I'm not going back not going back

I coulda been a tragedy

That's why these fake niggas

Who call me p**sy are mad at me

Cause they ain't have the smarts or the heart

Ain't you read the f**king book

'Things Fall Apart'

I was never gonna stay the same

All I ever really wanted was to change the game

Spent the year kicking a** and taking names

Try to tell it to your heart Taylor Dayne

Mama told me I was special

When them test scores came in

Calling the new Will Smith that's Jaden

Calling me a faggot

When I'm rapping that's hating

I need to slow down

What the f**k is y'all saying

Step inside the party y'all

Niggas is mood killers

My lifestyle simple live easy and Bruce Willis

I'm the boss Michael Scott

Y'all b**ches is just Phyllis

Set the world on fire y'all motherf**kers

Is chilling what is this

That's why these f**king

MCs want their asses back

Don't you know that I'm a rapist

Ask a track

Whiskey-sipping wanna drink the whole bottle

But these smart middle-class

Black kids need a role model

F**king hate me that's what I'm used to

Suck a dick we the sh*t Metamucil

God damn man there's gotta

Be a better way

Than pill-popping all these ***

So I can stay awake

Like I'm Jessie in this b**ch

I'm so excited

There's a party at the top

You ain't invited but it's lame

And all the b**ches is fake

You think about your old girl

And how breaking up's a mistake

Black dudes assume

I'm closeted or kinda gay

White people confused like girl

On Glee and Gabourey

I am Donald is a full-time job these niggas

Want me to fail so they can write me off

It seems like they all want me to fail

But I'm not going back not going back baby

Please tell me you

Don't want me to fail cause

I'm not going back not going back

Dirty girls love my dick

They're cockroaches

Jewish girls eat my meat

It's not kosher

Relax black chick I think

That I have offended thee

Got nothing against the sistas

I just don't think they're into me

I am not a thug AKA what they pretend to be

I am just myself AKA my worst enemy

Yeah b**ch cut the swag

With a f**king knife

I come hard like my life

Keep her p**sy tight

It's cool though it's all good

You want a dude who keep

It real and stay hood

I'm sorry babe but I act me

I don't act black whatever that be

I'm just happy these

Girls seem into me now

Yeah they looking for some In N Out

Animal style

With this lettuce cheese

Bread making sandwiches

That's why you niggas fail like

All of your parent's marriages

Ran into Rashida Jones told me

That she heard my song

When I called her mixed like

The crowd at my last show

She said to write her something

Nice on the next track

But she cute so I wrote her a** a whole rap

Man I threw that sh*t away

It felt dumb believe me

It was bad we're better off

You're welcome

I worked hard on that song like day and night

That whole song made

This one verse crazy right

I guess it all goes somewhere you know that

Like that b******t you

Talked before Culdesac

"I didn't know he had it in 'IM "

Couldn't see me as Spiderman

But now I'm spitting venom

Now you paying attention

Pick your f**king face up

When I wanna be a superhero

I just wake up

Renaissance man with a Hollywood buzz

I refuse to go back to not liking

Who I was because

Fake love these fake dreams

These fake sounds

All the things that we felt your voice

Was screaming too loud

I know what you're ready to be

But it isn't with me

So I'm ready to leave you alone

I don't really wanna fight like this

I don't ever wanna lose your kiss

All I ever wanted was someone to hold on to

I just wanna be your girl

Everything you haven't heard plus

I just wanna be with you

With you with you with you with you

With you I just wanna be with you

With you with you with you with you

Oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh