[Intro]
You know perception is strange it's
Weird how one day it's back of the cla** jokes
Freestyles in lunch
Or after school
Chilling with your homies before you all head home
7,8,9,10,11,2
Getting in the house
Figuring that you'll do
The same as yesterday
That's how it seems
Then you move on changing
The next scene
[Verse 1]
Minds change, but people don't
And the moment those words were spoke
All my ideals went up in smoke
Can I appeal with a pen stroke?
I listen close to what they had wrote
I'm similar
But I'm still my own
So tell me why it's so hard I know
The difference between hoes and b**hes
One keeps b**hing
The other's tricking
But trying to make a living off of her s** appeal
And I gotta say that
I don't find it appealing
But I'm closer to the edge
So I know the feeling
I know I fear it
The thought of falling into a vice
Ignoring all advice
Then take another shot of it twice
Or maybe flipping a gram
Cause I got fronted a brick
And in the back of my mind
I call it easy money
Ambition never affected decisions
But instead what I need are basic provisions
Translation
Another n***a just making a living
Now isolation protected me from impatience
And turning into a patient
On some n***a sh**
But a dollar costs
And to be honest I've been applying
But I ain't found a job since I started
No, no
[Hook]
Ride to it die to it
Can't deal with this sh**
Mothers cries to it
Another body in the street
What am I doing?
I don't know...
I seem
Cursed or consumed by it
Maybe I'll slip and I'll die to it
Maybe I'll roll with my n***as when
We ride to it
My mindset guides to it...
[Verse 2]
And now a product of fear
Would be the reason that
You hear me in your speakers now
Worried bout sneakers now
Worried bout touring now
Worried bout how
I'mma make it out on my own now
A thousand thoughts
Running through my head
In just a minute
And most of y'all
Is worried bout booking
A couple b**hes
I wish I had the luxury
But time just ain't affording me
The ability to be the
Kid I want to be
Mind going crazy
I'm lazy but never hazy
This life it never amaze me
My joy is speaking frankly
About every surrounding
That once left me astounded
And now that the bell is sounded
I hope I don't end up drowning
[Interlude]
Lost these daze
Lost these daze
I'm Lost these daze...
(x2)
[Verse 3]
Pendulum swinging
The balance is still maintained
Losing my mainframe
Won't change
Anyone's mind frame
The state of mine is do or die
So if I miss it then
No one is going to miss it
It's funny how that sounds the same
But means something different
Blank faced stares looking at me
And I know the feeling
My homies offer me the sound
And I want to hear it
But I never take the hit
Cause I don't need it
I'm just trying to make a hit
Trying to keep eating
Cause I seen the other side
And I ain't leaping
I been there too many times
I'm just trying to leave it
And if a casket is my fate
Then f** it
So be it
But I ain't stopping till I'm heard
And I ain't dreaming
I'm just telling you my goals
Where I want to be
So can I live?
Or will I die touching the sky?
I'll wait to see it...