[Verse 1] I walk the night Just mortified by life Lights might burn my eyes like We live, we learn, we love, we earn, we yearn And the tables turn like oh Hasty motives Heavy shoulders Hazy motion Keeling over Daisy days The nights grow colder Time moves slower Fight emotions Plights & potions Riding novas Comatose when hope erodes Lows and patchwork souls Holes in spirit blows Poems on polaroid pictures Rolling on rivers The fluctuation, everything it diminishes Highs & lows so еvery constant is frivolous I’ve been in bondage likе Nineveh I was so close to being finished up Chewed and spat out by the whale and the winter gust Before the noise, it was me and my cousin Play twenty one, sleeping on floors Dreams in the mortar are melded with concrete Imagine touching ceilings Swinging on doors Crooked teeth, stare up and smile at the wind Snuck out church singing raps like they’re hymns Mum said I can’t run away from my sins Pack my bag, rap at school then it’s Sunday again How it goes I just been lending my soul out to everyone Burry my head in a hole Wasting time simulating a hologram Instead of stomping a ground of my own I’m the rain that’ll bust up the levee now Trialed and tested, a mountain of growth Forgiving myself when I’ve fallen short Unlearning everything that I know [Chorus] Before the noise it was me and my cousin A bag full of youth We were dreaming of buzzing Dry-heave then spit blood up Piss time down the gutter Could call you a friend but you're more like a brother Night terrors of perish The lunar above us Can’t live my truth hiding under the covers Found home in the music In love with the thunder I slide through the show like a knife in the butter But standing for something You know like I be on my way up Wake up, lace up The times are shifting Change up Seasons and ages Don’t tesselate and stay stuck Even the moon in the sky go through phases Yeah [Verse 2] I’m trying to work from integrity Not for clicks like a company selling schemes Take your phone and then dip it in kerosine Your eyes wide like a twerk on the telly screen I was taught there’s no sex before marriage and Wearing awkwardness Shame and embarrassment Like Elijah a chariot fly me up Compensate with a head full of malice, tough I said that I’d slip on the bally and Warship like a Galleon damaging Embellishing, insecure about everything Up and down in the labyrinth of dizzy thought Trying to prove the scam, I knew it’s derelict I saw that, that veil was wearing thin It was toxic and truly irrelevant Detrimental to my growth and embetterment A u-turn at the road to perdition now Shaking off me a ghostly ambition that Saw me winning but loathing and finicky Coaxing people to call me the king of them Trying to dismantle age-old traditions of Keeping up family addictions but All of their pain and adversity never limited the love They were giving [Chorus] Before the noise it was me and my cousin A bag full of youth We were dreaming of buzzing Dry-heave then spit blood up Piss time down the gutter Could call you a friend but you're more like a brother Night terrors of perish The lunar above us Can’t live my truth hiding under the covers Found home in the music In love with the thunder I slide through the show like a knife in the butter But standing for something You know like I be on my way up Wake up, lace up The times are shifting Change up Seasons and ages Don’t tesselate and stay stuck Even the moon in the sky go through phases Yeah [Outro] And it all happened so fast At home, holding hands draped in pink Lilac and other variants of joy Together, before we were torn And taught traditions of the masc I was never over you But I became the glacier between us A cruel fulfilment of past A termination of volition determination of a path The tyranny of a judge banging his gavel on the glass I yearned for clemency not a cast Abandoning membership With the ancient practice of exposing truth Unlearning their pseudo-fact The old social anthropology Melting myself down Debunking the myth I was The act resembled an acer tree Its shadow cushioned my fall Its leaves had veins like I do Its solace spoke with tact A truth that passed through the grapevine The voice that brought me back
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