[Intro]
You just want to...
To step out of it, to step out of the whole place, the whole business
The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you
When you create yourself to make it
You're going to have to either let that creation go
And take a chance on being love or hated for who you really are
Or you gonna have to kill who you really are
And fall into your grave grasping on to a character that you never were
[Verse 1]
Set fire to thе backup plan
No parachute, I'm lamping reading on a battle plan
You see thе light moving, shining on my travel path
I'ma throw a fissile missile faster than an atom can
It's for the books, so scribe it on a metal plaque
You're tryna find a rare diamond in a shallow pan
But I'm looking for Zirconium, Plutonium enriched on a daily
And I came for your cranium
Crooks and castles, home of the skull and the crossbones
It's a bubble cross, so slow up on the crossroad
Whether tyres are Pirrelles or the Firestones
You came to a halt like being the centre of a crossbow
Autobiographical dirge for a war story
I'm the notable signpost that never appear blurry
Landmark, symbolic for a cornerstone, homey
Rosetta stones ain't vainglory for paying for me
Tell me who sent ya?
I put my claim on the map
I'm trying to get me and my people out of the trap
I'm raising a kingdom, it's sitting on my lap
They be the eyes smoke the enemy inside the camp
They know to stay and keep firing when they little
How they take something minuscule and make it triple
How to not be bothered even when the water ripples
Spit, shine, brush, bristle the blinding sun make it official
Only God know the story that time tells
El Diablo sinister road when the night fell
Chilling haze stayed in the air when the sky dry spell
Comforting stories that the lies tell
Heard in hoods in the streets where we were raised at
All the time spent on the almanac, you gon' pay back
I let it slip from my hands, no route to trace back
Heard em wish me luck to find a needle in a haystack
[Chorus]
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Get it off my chest
I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Get it off my chest
[Verse 2]
It's kinda strange when you're on a high plain slipping
Everything you know getting tested but no provisions
Flame thrown at the heat of the fire in the kitchen
You twisting and turning
How you burn for the mission
You figure something's missing
Cobra spinning in your cornea
Snake charmer fail blindfolded dysphoria
They say something is for the pain, here's a little morphia
Thank the chemist igniting the spirit of a warrior
Got me taking over every spot trying to stop me
Make the Turkish coffee hot, morning kinda frosty
Every hour around the clock, moving like it's liqour sales
Gotta keep it moving whether sinkor sail
These are scales recochet!
No quicker way to the ironside
Gotta stand for something strip away
Let this light shine
Fortify the landmark
Saw the Lord when Uzziah died
Diggin in the stakes is how you prepare for the landslide
[Chorus]
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Get it off my chest
I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Get it off my chest
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
Get it off my chest
Aye, I'm just trying to breath
