Whole RentE

(first of the month) (paid)

Whole rent! (whole!) Half the bed! (half!)

You took the PlayStation, left the lease, left the dread

Whole rent! (whole!) On the first! (first!)

Picked up doubles, never called you, and that's the part that hurt you worst

Paid it! (paid!) By myself! (self!)

One name on the mailbox now. I peeled yours off myself.

Fourteen-fifty. Used to be seven and a quarter each

You left on the twenty-eighth. That's strategy. That's reach.

I had four hundred and a Honda with a light on

Called my manager that night. Said "whatever shift. I'm on."

Opened at the diner, closed at the front desk of the gym

Ate the mistakes off the line. Showered at the gym. Slim

Margins. Sold the couch we picked together. Eighty bucks.

Sat on the floor that month and it was fine. It was enough.

First of the month I walked it to the office in a envelope

Lady counted it. Looked up. Said "just you now?" I said "yup."

Whole rent! (whole!) Half the bed! (half!)

You took the PlayStation, left the lease, left the dread

Whole rent! (whole!) On the first! (first!)

Picked up doubles, never called you, and that's the part that hurt you worst

Month four I got the raise. Month six I bought a couch. Alone.

Green velvet. You'd have hated it. It's mine. It's home.

Your boy say you been askin' how I'm doin'. Tell him this:

The light is off the Honda. I got it fixed. With tips.

I don't want you broke. I don't want you hurt. I want you to know

That every single first I thought about it, and I ain't fold

You was bettin' on a phone call. You was bettin' on me short.

I was short. I just refused to let you be the one I called for.

Now I got two months saved and a lease I'm 'bout to sign

One bedroom. My name. Fourteen-fifty. Every dime.

First of the month... (paid)

First of the month... (paid)

Every single one.

(WHOLE RENT!)

Whole rent! (whole!) Whole bed! (whole!)

Keep the PlayStation, I kept the lease, lost the dread

Whole rent! (whole!) On the first! (first!)

Picked up doubles, never called you, and that's the part that hurt you worst

Paid it! (paid!) By myself! (self!)

Green couch, my name, whole rent. I'd do it all again. Myself.