[Intro] Chilling, crystal in the veins Running kinda low Two homies stop by With a plan I didn't know Said mask up Take this gun Their friend carries ounces And supposedly he'll run Come out from the shadows When we set the meeting right Take everything he's carrying Then we'll split it down the line I asked— What if he fights back? How you want me to react? They looked at me like nothing— Click-clack. Just blast. [Verse 1] Addiction had me tempted Should I do it? No. Fuck that. I can't. So I took the gun Looked at both of them Said— Let me get this straight You want me to rob your friend You've known for all this time For some shit? Really? Even have me go as far As ending someone's life For a bag that'll disappear Before the end of fucking night? Fuck you. Give me what you got. Fiends had an ounce Couple hundred bucks And this pistol Wanted me to become a murderer Because they didn't have the guts Are you fucking serious? Now they're on the ground Pistol-whipped Funny how the plan changed When the shadow turned around. [Chorus] I tempted fate More times than I can count Walked toward doors I shouldn't have walked out One wrong night One different choice One trigger One noise Could've buried everything Before I knew what life became I tempted fate And somehow crossed the other side Still don't know why I'm standing here But I'm alive. [Verse 2] Still young and dumb Only fifteen Running with an older crowd Trying to find somewhere to be Met a guy inside a trap house Told him I was down to ride Smoking meth all night Going neighborhood to neighborhood Breaking into houses Construction sites Everything we got He took and sold I got half in dope At fifteen years old That sounded like A perfect fucking setup. Until one night— He needed me To go on a mission Kick in a door Collect what they owed But something wasn't right In his homie's eyes That little feeling said— Don't go. So I told him: My mama's been crying Every time I leave with you Tonight I'm staying home I need to ease her mind Didn't know that sentence Might've changed The rest of mine. [Chorus] I tempted fate More times than I can count Walked toward doors I shouldn't have walked out One wrong night One different choice One trigger One noise Could've buried everything Before I knew what life became I tempted fate And somehow crossed the other side Still don't know why I'm standing here But I'm alive. [Verse 3] That was the last time I ever saw him free Later found the story Printed in the paper In front of me He collected Then he left His homie stayed behind What happened in that house Turned everything into life Two men locked away Third strike No coming home And I sat there realizing How close I'd fucking come One decision One bad feeling One night I didn't ride Was the distance between reading it And being named inside. Month later Got a letter From behind the line Dumb motherfucker Implicating me in crimes I stared at it Never replied. Some doors don't need an answer. Sometimes you survive By leaving them behind. [Verse 4] Another night they asked me If I wanted to come through I was tearing down a stereo Had some other shit to do Got swallowed by the project Never made it out that night Didn't know another hotel room Was waiting down the line Later heard somebody died there Over half an ounce of crystal And I'm staring at these pieces Of a half-dismantled stereo Thinking— That's it? That's what changed the road? No wisdom No great plan I just happened not to go Another door I didn't enter Another night that passed me by Another ordinary choice Between my future And somebody dying. [Bridge] How many roads Did I almost take? How many cells Had room for my name? How many graves Were one decision away? How many times Can you tempt your fate? No prophecy No guardian light Just moments when something Didn't feel right Sometimes I listened Sometimes I didn't Somehow I lived long enough To know the difference. [Final Verse] Now I'm thirty-seven And clean Two kids And my best friend That's everything I really need Deep down Maybe part of me is scared Of getting caught back up Because I know exactly Who I was And what I would've done I've seen where those roads lead I've watched them swallow lives I've watched a bag become a cage And one night become all time So maybe keeping distance Isn't weakness in disguise I've tempted fate enough And made it To the other side. [Final Chorus] I tempted fate More times than I can count Some doors opened Some I never walked through One wrong night One different choice One trigger One noise And somebody else Could've been telling my story now I tempted fate And somehow crossed the other side Nothing glorious about it I survived. [Outro] Fifteen years old Down to ride. Thirty-seven Still alive. Somewhere between those numbers A thousand roads divide I don't need to walk them backward To know What's on the other side.
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