One Night
So anyhow
Wasn't getting crazy into drugs or anything like that
But I had one night where I ended up in a taxi cab
And a woman said something to me, kinda rejected me
In, like, a mean way
And I hadn’t done anything wild I just expressed some interested
And she expressed interest and then I returned the expression and then she was mean to me
And she didn't reject me, rejection's fine, but she was mean to me, all a sudden
The taxi driver dropped her off, we were in a taxi
Next thing you know, I end up with the taxi driver
Four hours later me and him are doing cocaine together
And I’m driving the taxi
He's in the back, he's in the back with an escort
He bought me an escort I don't want no escort, you know
Luigi, that was the guy's name
And we're in north Harlem and I'm driving a taxi and the meter is still running I'm still paying for that taxi
[Chorus]
I wasn’t getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
I wasn’t getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
And that morning I was in New York because I had to be on a big radio show called "The Opie with Jim Norton Radio Show"
And they have, like, a million listeners and it was a huge opportunity
If you'd have asked me the night before, “Hey, man, are you gonna stay up all night partying, (go, girl) before you go into the radio?”
I’d have said, “No way I would never do that.”
And then here I was in this moment and it's 5:00 a.m. I gotta go to the radio, you know
I mean, I got to my hotel after driving taxi and then paying for it
Dude, just blown outta my mind, dude I couldn't feel my face with either hand
At first I thought something was wrong with my hands but then I realized something wrong with my face
I get to the radio station
Dude, I took three showers in 10 minutes before I went there
So you know you on some really svelte dust if you're taking three showers in 10 minutes and drying off between each one
And that’s cocaine, Papa
[Chorus]
I wasn't getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
I wasn't getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
And I get to the radio station
And I can't even talk
And the other guest for the day was Darryl Strawberry, Hall of Fame baseball player
And he's, you look him up and he's one of the greatest baseball players ever but his career was really a-altered by cocaine
And here he was I was on the radio with him I had collected his cards when I was young and I couldn't even talk
(I couldn't even talk)
The main gift that God had given me was my voice and I couldn't even use it
Because I'd been up all night
[Bridge]
Just using drugs to feel good somehow
Using drugs to feel good somehow
Using drugs to feel good somehow
Or using drugs to feel anything
Using drugs to feel good somehow
U-using drugs to feel good somehow
Using drugs to feel good somehow
Or using drugs to feel anything
[Chorus]
I wasn't getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
I wasn't getting crazy
But I had one night
I had one night, I had one night
And I get to the radio station 'cause I'd always thought in my head, “Oh, Darryl Strawberry, you think, you thought about him, and you thought, oh, he's on drugs he's this and that, he ruined his life.”
But then here he was in front of me, he was 13 years sober, he was eloquent, successful
And I mean he was a dang king sitting in front of me
And in that one moment that's where some things lined up in my life
That's where some things lined up in my mind and said, “oh, hey, look”
Here you are with this gift you think you have
That you can communicate
And you can't even talk because you fucked up, bruh
'Cause you been out driving taxi
And here you are with somebody who you had judged as being fucked up and here he is, a king
And it just lined things up in a perfect moment where I just had this moment of, like, “Oh, I need to”
Something needs to change for me