[Song 1: Cruel World]
(sleepy, tired, fighting biters)
[Chorus]
Starving artist
Coldest heartless
How he grow into this
With the pain how he became
Sleepy, tired
Fighting biters
Watching quiet
Can't let it go
[Verse 1]
Struggle too long can't take my shit
Little brown boy always goin' through it
Abandoned, searching for something
Fallen in the pit
Bottom of the barrel
Where the way out
Starin' down a barrel
Speaking darkness into carols
Make you think its cool
I'm reaching deeper
To the people living on my parallel
Hope you make it through the hell
Motion going faking well
Smile solid hiding shame
Weakness non-attractive
Beaten down again
On my own can't handle it
Hand on chin to keep my head up
Ain't no time to kick my feet up
Barely get to roll my weed up
Stole my art supplies
Had to get by and get high
Been on ethic working hard
Say my dreams is stupid
Slip in quicksand
Falling quicker as you going down
Make it easy, take the crown
No making loot with them
They never liked me anyway
You know its mutual
[Chorus]
Cruel life
It's nothing to me anymore
Black the sky (black it, yeh, black it)
Starving artist
Coldest heartless
How he grow into this
With the pain how he became
Sleepy, tired
Fighting biters
Watching quiet
Can't let it go
[Outro]
So, so, so
That's what I chose so
So, so, so
That's what I chose so
So, so, so
That's what I chose so
What I chose so
That's what I chose so
That's what I chose so
That's what I get
That's what I reap
That's what I sow
It's a cruel world
I'll be working through the weekend
I be working through the weekend
[Poem 1]
The artist's path
Vulnerability, humilty
Failure with care
I hold no talent everything worked for
I hold no talent everything worked for
Nothing physical to show
I'm embarrassed, but I'm trying
If I get a pat on my back I'll take it
No hand outs round my way
Checks cut bi-weekly
It's a cruel world, kid
[Song 2: Acceptance]
Time never wait, yeh
Time never wait for no man
[Chorus]
Time never wait for no man
Gimme that acceptance
Moment of redemption
Reapin what I'm sowing
Hope I bask in the blessings
Time never wait for no man
Gimme that acceptance
Moment of redemption
Reapin what I'm sowing
Hope I bask in the blessings
[Verse 1}
Bullshit stressin'
Life full of a lessons
Darkest ones be the hardest to forget it
The blunt stay stuck up on my lip
Like it glued to it
Sad shit stick bubblegum on it
Stuck in a shell like you
Stuck in a hell with you
Will the spirit leave the body when I can't breathe anymore
Will it break down all the barriers they put on me before
[Chorus]
Time never wait for no man
Gimme that acceptance
Moment of redemption
Reapin what I'm sowing
Hope I bask in the blessings
Time never wait for no man
Gimme that acceptance
Moment of redemption
Reapin what I'm sowing
Hope I bask in the blessings
[Bridge]
Hear the voice
Hear the voice
Hear the voices
Tellin' me it's okay
Tellin' me let go of fear
Foggy house keep my head clear
Hear the voice
Hear the voice
Hear the voices
Tellin' me it's okay
Tellin' me let go of fear
Foggy house keep my head clear
Time never wait for no man
Time never wait for no man
Give me that acceptance
Give me that acceptance
Time never wait for no man
Time never wait for no man
Moment of redemption
Give me some acceptance
Foggy house keep my head clear
Foggy house keep my head clear
Give me some acceptance
I just need acceptance
Trying to find acceptance
Mm, yeah
I'm a O.G. in a cruel world
Trying to find acceptance
{Poem 2]
Hallucinations in a countryside suburb
Somewhere I don't belong
I never stay long
All my real friends: non-cotton
In our families: black sheep, yeh
Embracing terms they coined on me
Time been impatient
You are non-rewindable
I can't forget
I resist, but
I do forgive
Give me that acceptance
[Outro]
Mmmhmm
Mmmhmm
Na-na-na-nah
Moment of redemption
Moment of redemption, yeh
Mmmhmm
Foggy house keep my head clear
Moment of redemption
Moment of (yeh)
Gimme that, give me that acceptance
Moment of remeption
Give me that acceptance
Moment of Redemption
[Song 3: Others}
[Intro]
Been so selfish
Maybe I do not deserve it
Desert me
Left you stranded
Yeh, Just how I planned it
Lonely ain't bad
Lonely ain't so bad
Sometimes it's what I chose
[Verse 1]
Angry in bed
Waking with the wet pores
Downpour wipe the sweat
Hope my art outlive my chest
Hope my life outlast my breath
Fuck the fame, yeh, gimme that change
Real money, real change
New life with a new light
Broad day bright
Get paid & give back
I prolly shouldn't say that
Know the devils don't like that
Learn to fight
You better bite back
My best never good enough
My best never good enough
My best never good enough, yeh
But I'm better than the others
I know I'm better than the others (know I'm better)
Know I'm better than others
No comma on display for checking account
Negative 45 dollar on count
Ain't a way to get ahead
Walmart copping cheap bread
Microwave a meal
Eat the cheapest deal
Fuck a beat up when I feel
Smoke a cig, hunger fill
Dollar menu pimp
Ain't walking with a limp
Got my eyes up
Keep it anti-simp
[Bridge]
Mmm, nah nah
(Up there, high, high)
Here it comes, that little ship
All the feelings in a bottle
Let 'em loose, let 'em loose
(Up there, high, high, up there)
High up there where I do not care
[Verse 2]
Selfish and silly
Still chasing a dream
(Still chasing a dream, yeah)
Damn near 30
Damn near 30
(Damn near 30)
Time ticking on you
Clock out early
Selfish and silly
Still chasing a dream
(Still chasing a dream)
Damn near 30
What the fuck that mean?
I thought I would have like
At least a hundred grand
(Hundred grand, hundred grand, yeh)
By the time I'm this age
By the time I'm this age yeah
By the time I'm this age, yeah
I thought
I would have more
But what it really mean
I guess it's okay
This american dream, yeh
Mind ain't locked up
Seen alot of folk fall victim to the bottom
Bottom of the pit, yeh
Try to bring 'em up
They refused, didn't want it
[Poem 3]
Selfish and silly
Still chasing a dream
Damn near 30
What the fuck that mean?
