Growing Apart (to Get Closer) Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? 

Where are you going? We should be growing now 

(Smoke to it nigga, smoke to it nigga) 

Where are we going? We should be slowing down 

Where are you going? We should be growing now 

That's what she said to me, the place I used to call home is just a bed to me 

We don't even sleep, neighbors can hear her weep 

Meanwhile I'm in these streets with everybody, I'm trying to get it 

And she know they got me, I watch her feelings watch me 

As they stare me with the saddest eyes of loneliness 

Look each other in the face and barely blink 

Tried to make it right but the pen ran out of ink 

So if my letters don't reach you, I hope these lyrics in sync 

Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? 

Where are you going? We should be growing now 

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That's what it said to me but the place I call ambition now dead to me 

Gone and forgotten, I'm off track like Dale Earnhardt, my liver rotten 

Alcoholic tripping, fucking bad bitches and they got bad intentions 

Club night, guys and dolls, balling out but I'm about to drop the ball 

I'm calling out for help, my engineer called 

Told me come to the studio but I wanna tell nah 

That's what he said to but that place we call Heaven is unfair to me 

Only 144 can go, seven billion people on planet Earth today 

Is there something that I don't know? 

I know to follow him rather than follow people or follow vanity 

'Cause that means I'm following evil, guess I'm following evil 

I should follow cathedral, blessings I need but live like I don't need you 

So in conclusion, we all seem to stumble, planning our own demise 

Forgetting the big picture and making it wallet size 

So to what is important in my life, I apologize 

I promise to stay faithful, focused and sanctified, we all get distracted 

The question is would you bounce back or bounce backwards? 

Would you not know how to act or take action? It's just a part of life 

And if your vision's impaired, you probably lose it all tonight 

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Trying to visualize how to get it right but my vision's so blurry 

Trying to slow it down, stay close to the ground but we're always in a hurry 

And if I could make this world stand a little slower then I would 

Then we could grow a little closer, I think we're getting closer 

I think we're getting closer...