These shoes are getting too heavy to run miles in
These depths are getting too deep to dive in
These tears are the reason the surface keeps risingMy breath is getting shorter, the closer the horizon
God knows how much longer can I keep watering this tree
With no signs of yield, yet I′m still full of belief
Is it hope or am I just naive?
Would I trade it all just for a pinch of sleep?
Just woke up into another pipe dream
And like steam I just want to rise and feel the sunbeams
But it might seem like I have to fake being real before I'm streamed
Make the nigga in the mirror not like me
And strike deals with devil just so I can blow up on these mine fields
I just wanna do the right thing
And paint these pictures like I′m Spike Lee
And if solitude keeps company
Then who else do I believe in, but me?
I trusted my pen
Didn't write like it
I been myself
Didn't feel like it
I saw my potential
Didn′t act like it
I knew my roots
Didn′t grow like it, I-
Still gotta carry these hereditary bags
One full of melanin, the other hungry for cash
Then another one full of letters for people who don't understand
That′s bones to pick, a diet
My clock don't allow me to get tired despite the distance and the weight
My clock don′t allow me to be late
Steep hills, still gotta get mine
That is a different definition of black time
How did we invent calendars but now we lack time?
Why do we waste time?
Why do we waste time?
Why do we waste time?
Spent hours trynna figure out what a real nigga is
Is it chains and whips or getting chained and whipped?
The love ain't coming from the outside, gotta search within
Hunger put a lot the plate so, go ahead dig in
We already could have crashed their business
But we′re too busy writing their promises on our wish list
The messengers now sit at the top of a hit list
How much time do you get in the spotlight, before getting dismissed?
And if they told you that love ain't worth it
Then would you listen?
If everybody heartless then how do we beat the system?
If they kept begging for second chances then would you give them?
Would you change yourself if they told you to be different?
Uh, don't make me feel guilty ′cuz I don′t play by the stereotypes
My ancestors never shot cane- still they been earning stripes
From battle scars to tribal marks, make another sacrifice
Stop showing them the open palms, you know we gotta live it right
In this life you gotta fight
Hungry, so I gotta bite
Bones to pick, I gotta write
Kept me up a lotta nights
Feeling like a dynamite
Don't let the spirit die tonight
Make the future shining bright
Don′t let the spirit die tonight
Rrrah!
Funny how the lowest moments
Bring you closer to the higher power
I'm on a full blackout, still this ain′t my darkest hour
Nah, still this ain't my darkest hour
Can you find strength at your weakest?
I been burning bridges ′cuz I was out here freezing
Escaping all these leaches and I'm growing tired of seeing the history repeat
In-side of them, inside of me
And If we blind then who is leading?
But that's a line you got tired of hearing
Another cycle completed
Are you feeling what I′m feeling?
Are you feeling what I′m feeling, tsk
I said, do you get the meaning?
Didn't have to FaceTime
Just to answer God′s calling
I'm balling different
And I barely touched Spalding
I see what it is
And I see what it ain′t
I know that these tears
Won't put fuel in the tank
Tried to throw shade
We still bloom in the rain
Mood up and down
Still see another day, ahh
