Castle Walls (feat. Christina Aguilera)

[christina aguilera]
Everyone thinks that i have it all
But it's so empty living behind
These castle walls
(these castle walls).
If i should tumble
If i should fall
Would anyone hear me
Screaming behind
These castle walls?
There's no one here at all,
Behind these castle walls.
[t.i.]
Observing the estate through the gate
From the outside looking in
Bet you would think i got it made,
Better look again
I got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion
The belief is that i'm living
Out a millionaires fantasy
With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway
But you see the pain and
The change of the same man's
Your vision jaded by the grammy's
On the mantelpiece
Just switch your camera lenses
You would see the agony
Apparantly it's damaging
The man you see before you
On the canvas he may seem
Alright but all the disadvantages his family
Encounters overpowers his extravagance
Walk in my ? i dare you
While it really seem like
The kings life aint glamourous
As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs
Because the camera's don't see
Beyond the walls of the smiles
Only counts until it falls in the pile
[christina aguilera]
Everyone thinks that i have it all
But it's so empty living behind
These castle walls
(these castle walls)
If i should tumble
If i should fall
Would any one hear me
Screaming behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all,
Behind these castle walls
[t.i.]
Honestly to me, i think i'd lose every benefit of all that i've accomplished
If my key is never with it, shit
Me knowing this, why should
The verses i have laid
Be more important to me than
The persons i have raised
I guess i'm saying that to say that ooportunity
But they just don't equate
To all the time they take away
From the kids all the sh-t i did right is a mistake
If deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay
How could i ever consider myself a great
If messiah ain't paid and nique nique ain't straight
Would your favourite song about the whips,
Money and shit
Be relevant if you found out,
The money wasn't real, nope
So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me
Than see it to a king though
From a bad ass kid to man with some dough
Otherwise i may well have stayed poor
So while they stay focused
On me beefin with flip,
Shawty low, gucci or ludacris
Or if i'm f-cking with a hoe
Did i snitch when i got arrested or will i die over nonesense
Internally i'm dealing with this conflict
So excuse me if i don't get the chance to kiss the hand
Or slap me in the face,
Ay i'm just the man
If they saying i ain't the best
At making hit records
It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping
Shit, you think of that deep, did ya dawg
See you can't see the castle
Through the walls till it falls
Bitch ain't thinking with the deep, did ya dog
Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls
[christina aguilera]
Everyone thinks that i have it all
But it's so empty living
Behind these castle walls
(these castle walls)
If i should tumble if i should fall
Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls
Nobody knows i'm all alone
Living in this castle made of stone
They say that money is freedom
But i feel trapped inside it all
And while i sit so high up on a throne
I wonder how i can feel this low
On top of the world it's beautiful
But there's no place to fall
[t.i.]
For the record ay,
I give a damn if i never said sh-t again
My career was meant for me
To come and tell it
Honest interpretation of how affected
I'm faced with
Matters most rappers used to
Keep locked away in the basement
The day that i walk
I ain't saying that i'm amazing
Down playing the way
I keep fellas from catching cases
Won't take into consideration
How much it mean what i'm saying
And when i say what i mean even
When i'm sorrounded by the fakers
From one of the greatest centers,
Blessed with most of god's graces
Who made his way amongst
The greatest from the grimiest places
So next time you rating royalty,
I'm always being given to recordings than the level
Of your loyalty,
Obvious you've been ignoring me
Who else ya seen make it
Through the storm, unharmed disjointed
While all the critics was looking
For prince charming
Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt
Even though he made a castle out
Of used to be a house
He did shit that all your
Favourites rappers only rap about
But most of y'all don't see
The castle through the walls
And the smiles till it falls in piles so while
[christina aguilera]
Everyone thinks that i have it all
But it's so empty living behind
These castle walls
(these castle walls)
If i should tumble if i should fall
Would any one hear me screaming
Behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all,
Behind these castle walls