Hell & Back (Remix) – English Lyrics

• By: Kid Ink, MGK
• Album: Up & Away

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on, I fire back

In this cold world, where your lighters at

Let's burn it down, fire back

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on, I fire back

In this cold world, where your lighters at

Let's burn it down, fire back

Uh, let's burn it down underrated

Could never say I was underground

Maybe a little misunderstood when I'm just riding round

In all lanes like all OJ

Doing big things, no small change

We ain't going nowhere like wine stains

You see me with the Arsenal

Welcome to the Austin show

Alumni, lace up, don't trip, I got it, bro

Sold out in my city, overseas, in your state

Wore xxl white T's and freshen to the xxl 2012 freshman

Damn, I rose up, in the front like rosa

It's been a roller coaster, now I'm riding in a Rover

See the camera's out, bitch you gotta stay focused

They expose us, but it's still so much

I swear that you don't notice man

You can tell them that I've been through hell and back

But I'm home, yeah, took a little time getting here

But I'm finally in my zone

So gone off that loud you can hear it in my tone

Put your lighters in the air

Let's start a fire storm

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on

I fire back

In this cold world

Where your light is at

Just burn it down

Fire back

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on

I fire back

In this cold world

Where your light is at

Just burn it down

Fire back

As we bow our heads

Amen, praise God for everyone

That made it out of the dark like cave men

And is this my moment, shit 'cause I've been waiting

Came in the game the least favorite

Made it through rain, now it's hailing

I'm just saying

Hell and back there ain't no trip for me

Please Satan don't hold me back

God said this ain't it for me

But these haters done got me trapped

Shit! And it's these haters that got me strapped

Paranoid by my friends, 'cause these favors done that got me jagged

Consequence a bunch of all the misdemeanors that I was

Willing to do to get some rougher ends until the cops, woop, woop

Then I'd hop the fence

You still owe me an old school like das efx

Another call collect and it's sad cause

Those are the friends that you grew with

Telling me they knew that they knew I'd make it

And now you got the chance to go prove it, gone

Pay stubs, cold cash, work this and I sold that

Wrote this in my notepad

Spill more ink than my whole tatts

Spill blood on that stage, uh

I'm the truth, and they know that

Critics lie, but these numbers don't

Say hello, to this gold plaque it's Kells

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on

I fire back

In this cold world

Where your light is at

Just burn it down

Fire back

You can tell them that

I've been from hell and back

When the heat is on

I fire back

In this cold world

Where your light is at

Just burn it down

Fire back

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Key Grammar Structures

• You can tell them that I've been from hell and back

  ➔ Present Perfect, Reported Speech

  ➔ Uses the **present perfect** 'have been' to describe an action that started in the past and continues to have relevance now, and the use of **reported speech** "tell them that"

• In this cold world, where your lighters at

  ➔ Relative Clause (Reduced)

  ➔ The phrase 'where your lighters at' functions as a reduced relative clause, modifying 'world.' This is because 'where your lighters at' is equivalent to 'where your lighters are at' or 'in which your lighters are at'.

• Maybe a little misunderstood when I'm just riding round

  ➔ Passive Voice (Implied), Adverbial Clause of Time

  ➔ The passive voice is implied: (I am) misunderstood. The clause starting with 'when' is an adverbial clause of time, specifying when the misunderstanding happens.

• Damn, I rose up, in the front like rosa

  ➔ Past Simple, Simile

  ➔ Uses the **past simple** tense 'rose up' to describe a past action and the use of a **simile** (like rosa) to make a comparison.

• See the camera's out, bitch you gotta stay focused

  ➔ Imperative mood, contraction

  ➔ Uses the **imperative mood** 'stay focused' to give a command and the contraction "gotta" (have got to).

• I swear that you don't notice man

  ➔ Emphatic 'do', direct object omitted

  ➔ Uses the auxiliary verb 'do' for emphasis ('do notice'). The direct object of 'notice' is implied (e.g., you don't notice this).

• Hell and back there ain't no trip for me

  ➔ Idiomatic Expression, Double Negative

  ➔ Uses the **idiomatic expression** 'Hell and back' to describe hardship. Also features a **double negative** 'ain't no'.

• And it's these haters that got me strapped

  ➔ Relative Clause with 'that'

  ➔ This sentence uses a relative clause, 'that got me strapped', to provide more information about 'these haters.' 'That' acts as the relative pronoun.

• Pay stubs, cold cash, work this and I sold that

  ➔ Parallel structure

  ➔ The sentence uses parallel structure with a list of nouns and phrases (pay stubs, cold cash), and then a short, parallel phrase, using 'and' as a connector, and verb phrases of the same tense.