[Verse 1]
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\nI was shot from the womb in a natural birth
\nOn the day of the Earth
\n4/22
\nIn a dim little room in a trailer home park
\nEyes lit with a spark
\nCarpet shaggy blue
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\nPop ached to break away, prayed to procreate
\nClawing out of Oklahoma backwoods, high noon
\nPained he made his way, stacking bricks by day
\nPlotting to bring home the moon
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\nCuz it cannot be that our destiny
\nIs living next to gangs and drug fiends
\nTo survive we
\nTap the Latter-Day Saints’ welfare
\nClothes threadbare, hang on a prayer
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\nThen Tony Robbins’ tapes
\nPlayed in my dad's brain on repeat
\n(On repeat)
\nPromising a better fatе
\nAim for the apex, look up, name it
\nThе Secret? Say "I am," hang a pic, claim it
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\nGod made you to be a giant, not compliant sheep
\n(Affirm)
\nA lion, fated for high assignment, don’t you see?
\n(Your worth)
\n
\nYeah
\nTurns out we can actualize…
\nWe don’t gotta be confined to a life
\nRobbing Peter to pay Paul to scrape by
\nFind food, flee, fight if you have to, fuck, then die
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\n[Chorus 1]
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\nWe
\nWill rise
\nRealize
\nAnd actualize
\n
\nWe
\nWill lie
\nDeny
\nOur actual lives
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\n[Verse 2]
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\nSo I raised my eyes, aiming all the way up
\nStriving-to-make everything better than enough
\nSeeking to live my dreams, reach the peak
\nAchieve every whim and bring in my kingdom
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\nSo I freed my best self through chemistry
\nThen convened with gurus, to lead the way
\nWhether Rajneesh, Maharaj Ji, LGAT
\nLimiting beliefs I will obliterate
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\nI don’t want it, I demand it
\nI expect to be a man expanded
\nWith the perfect life, the perfect wife
\nThere’s not a single speck of dust I won’t brush ’til I shine
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\nAll a game to make the character in my brain
\nFully stacked, six-pack abs, maxed-out stats, no pain
\nStealing fire from the divine
\nEnlightenment will stabilize
\nUntil I…
\n
\n...Give rise to the shrine of me - hah!
\nRefusing to believe the burdens of biology
\nPossessed by a self-obsession
\nMy fulfillable potential, unquestioned
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\nI will break the chains, cleanse the grime
\nAll you toxic people, fuck outta my life
\nI fought from the bottom - for this shit
\nThis is my trip
\nSo lemme get what I wanna get
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\n[Chorus 2]
\n
\nWe
\nWill rise
\nRealize
\nAnd actualize
\n
\nWe
\nWill lie
\nDeny
\nOur actual lives
\n
\n[Verse 3]
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\nMaterially killing it, mentally I’m astute
\nSpiritually superior, working the interior too
\nHealing childhood wounds, addicted to breakthroughs
\nI got it great
\nWhile Pop?
\nMoved to his doom
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\nOn my way to “the top,” I watched, as he dropped
\nHis spouse, lost
\nHis house, gone
\nIn for a shock, at 50, back at his mom’s
\nThe docs peddled Oxy ’til his body was a blob
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\nAll to cope with the back he broke
\nFrom bricks he stacked to pull
\nHis family outta broke, playing his role
\nNot building up a statue of his ego
\nAnd me? narcissistically seeking the steeple
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\nDesperate to be destined to break the mold
\nThough it seems criminal to have it this incredible
\nWhile Pop never rested in his soul, ever restless I hope
\nPerfectibility has to be possible
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\nSo breach the ceiling, keep peeling to heal, and hopefully reveal
\nA feeling really appealing so I can finally still the wheels
\nBut until then, every year trauma clears, IFS harmonized
\nAll the while I’ve been fighting for highs, family’s denied
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\nAnd my own dead father
\nNever got to see the son that he brought up
\nJust because he was a bit of a bummer
\nThe basics of being a human have crumbled
\nAnd for what?
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\n[Bridge]
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\nSo you get bulletproof, cool, but for who?
\nYou wanna be whole; that’s laudable, bro
\nWanna have it all though; improbable
\nBut ya know what’s applaudable?
\nJust play your role, there’s a lot of growth
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\nDon’t gotta grope for it or force it
\nYour ordinary human story is plenty important
\nAnd the people you forfeit with your poor comportment
\nAs you actualize… they’re left to die while you indulge
\nIn polishing brass
\nOn the path
\nWe forgot the life we have
\nIronic
\nAll we ever wanted
\nWas to love what we got
\n(To see) we are the arrival that we sought
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\nA brother, a lover, a son
\nIt has ever been thus, under the sun
\nA father, an uncle, a friend
\nAll has ever been here, I stand
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\n[Chorus 3]
\n
\nWe
\nWill rise
\nRealize
\nOur actual lives
\n
\nWe
\nWon’t hide
\nDeny
\nActual, not actualized\n\n
