[00:00.00]New Flower! (feat. Leon Thomas) - Aminé/Leon Thomas
[00:00.29]Produced by：Dahi/Ely Rise/FNZ
[00:00.52]You've grown yourself a flower
[00:06.94]In the garden
[00:08.69]See I was like eighteen
[00:10.22]Wasn't nothin' to my name
[00:11.09]But overdraft fees
[00:12.06]Jealous of the rich tryna get cheese
[00:13.95]'Cause I always knew
[00:14.78]This life wasn't no breeze
[00:16.02]And my purpose like Amerie
[00:16.89]Was one thing
[00:17.86]But where I'm from
[00:18.54]They called it a far fetched dream
[00:20.01]'Cause baba don't believe in a sure thing
[00:21.88]But now he do 'cause my wrist
[00:23.03]Like the west wing Prezi Prezi
[00:24.73]I had to grow my own garden
[00:26.15]Plant the seeds but I was faint hearted
[00:27.98]The courage it took to get this started
[00:30.13]Meant a new flower had to get sprawlin'
[00:32.03]All my friends was havin' college fun
[00:34.20]Me I didn't have the college funds
[00:36.25]In my head is where I be at
[00:37.92]Couldn't let the petals die
[00:38.80]Just for a Fiat believe that
[00:40.50]You've grown yourself a flower
[00:46.94]In the garden
[01:04.10]Look I was on 145th and Saint Nick
[01:06.75]Takin' that A Train down to the mix
[01:08.62]Complex wasn't really payin' me
[01:10.76]And Def Jam had me gettin' sandwiches
[01:12.40]Got one for Big Sean but at least he tipped
[01:14.74]And that twenty saved my life that week
[01:16.64]New York but I'm feelin' Memphis bleak
[01:18.59]I was eatin' plain rice
[01:19.48]And I'm far from cheap
[01:20.76]Ha ha ha ha
[01:22.24]Yeah bury me before I'm a burden
[01:24.14]DIY 'til my conscious certain
[01:25.63]But the garden can't grow
[01:26.66]If it ain't got purpose
[01:27.58]True
[01:28.30]Carin' for the seeds since 2014
[01:29.97]I been waterin' this
[01:31.23]Every week
[01:32.16]I didn't know where I'd be at
[01:33.87]Growth can't slow but it bloom
[01:35.14]Now we see that
[01:35.81]Believe that believe that
[01:36.74]You've grown yourself a flower
[01:42.81]In the garden
[02:00.44]I used to do gardening
[02:04.61]It's grandpa Aminé
[02:07.01]He force you to plant
[02:10.59]And keep it maintenance and everything
[02:12.91]So after you come from school
[02:14.95]Then he go to the garden
[02:17.50]And maintaining it uh giving it water
[02:21.92]Stuff like that
[02:22.72]This is how I grow up
[02:25.54]And when the sun hits your skin
[02:27.75]I hope you know you belong where you been
[02:33.82]And we'll grow that's for sure but in the end
[02:37.06]We'll be back in the ground once again
[02:39.80]Yeah look we all want success
[02:42.14]But can you grow more with less
[02:43.74]'Cause money change everything
[02:45.05]I see the effects
[02:46.23]Lifetime friends think
[02:47.09]I think of 'em less
[02:48.50]No I am depressed
[02:49.90]If people don't like me
[02:50.91]Then I don't get a check
[02:51.95]Which means both my parents are stayin' in debt
[02:53.90]And I prefer to be the only
[02:55.14]One that carries the stress
[02:56.79]If I never got rich
[02:58.04]Maybe sunset wouldn't have me sick
[03:00.12]'Cause that crash almost toe tagged my sis'
[03:02.07]Is it my fault that she even had that risk
[03:04.70]But what I can't control
[03:05.81]The best advice I'll get from myself alone
[03:08.19]And after all that Portland rain is combined
[03:10.11]All I need is thirteen months of sunshine
[03:13.51]And when the sun hits your skin
[03:15.67]I hope you know you belong where you been
[03:19.63]Been
[03:21.83]And we'll grow that's for sure but in the end
[03:25.01]We'll be back in the ground once again