(Verse 1: MaJiK)
High without the smoke…lines without the coke
I turn to these rhymes in times I need to cope
With emotions when they got me broken
And hopeless; these poems help me refocus
See, I'm afraid…I've been scared to tell the truth
Scared of telling you what nightmares I've held as proof
To my insanity…they loom inside and panic me
The more I kept them hidden, the more they tried to vanish me
It was damaging to keep everything bottled up
Every time I was shaken, I feared it'd all erupt
But just a touch, what a rush…pencil to the paper
Never thought that I could trust this silent friend to be my savoir
So I labor on these pages…cleansing my soul
Turn the tears that never rolled down my cheeks into these flows
Swallowed my pride…acknowledged that I
Needed to dead the past so tomorrow sees life
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Emotions (on the tip of my tongue)
With no one (and nowhere to run)
I open (my soul to this canvas)
(Words I imagine give voice to the madness)
(Verse 2: Duce2uce)
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(Verse 3: MaJiK MC)
Why me? That was always the question
I haven't figured it out but I call this progression
Getting closer when I'd jot down a sentence
These thoughts full of tension would start to make sense and
I could see myself through the shapes of each letter
My soul's outline being traced released pleasure
Exposing my weakness was making me better
Memories I was running from were safe to rememeber
Owning up to my mistakes, moving forward out the past
No one knew the kind of hate brewing up behind the mask
But with this outlet, out went the doubt in
The outfit of the clouds that surrounded
My mind and my life…black ink, silver lines
Dark thoughts captured by non-filtered rhymes
To reveal a heart of gold, soul made of diamonds
And a burning pa**ion that's been keeping me alive inside
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