Grey Ghost - Shigeto lyrics

[INTRO] [Verse 1] Yeah, when i was a young teenager All I did was draw in my sketchbook, a textbook failure I went from school to school My parents broke up next, so I went from house to house too My step-father was abusive My dad didn't know so I had to make excuses Don't bring up my brother and my sister, this dude he was useless My mother she was beautiful but had a thing for losers Sorry to my siblings for talking 'bout your dad But I gotta get it off the chest bad I'm just trying to get some context from where I was at Its not that I was sad, I was just a little mad So the prospect of boarding school sounded sorta cool Part of me felt I didn't have no more to lose Im talkin' like it was all doom and gloom I had a good childhood, I was just confused So many are at fifteen years old As I watch now in this boarding house alone And at the ( ? ) I used to wear matching tracksuits My shoes loose, my pants low like I had to Had a sketchbook full of graff But my CD player only had Green Day and that sort of crap So when this dude entered the room looking the same as me Knowing hip hop from A to Jay-Z I was taken, and so began my education I never woulda known it would become my occupation Year '99 I was in year 9 The year I heard the rhymes that would change my life In the form of a compact disc And when a bomb track hit, my whole perspective changed Re-arranging every cell within this individual The words political, feelin it was spiritual What the f** is this imagery and audio Righteous as hell, but still it wasn't corny though Caught me off-gaurd, I was hardly ready Like rock-steady sending a machete into my belly Thats when my whole f**in head had exploded The rap plus the beat equals double the dosage My troubles imploded, and sudden emotion Came rushing through my blood knocking the chip off my shoulder [Hook] Hip hop helped me out I'm never gonna let you down I won't ever forget I rap to pay back the debt, uh (x2) [Verse 2:] You may wonder what happened next Let me tell you it was something that I never expected If you were paying attention You may remember the dude that introduced me to rap that I mentioned Became best friends, then became enemies Then I get a call to tell me he'd been knocked off his feet By what?! by a cab, what the f**, wheres he at Im tryin to tell you now bro, he's dead I felt sick lost for words out of breath My own best friend dead was my first encounter with d**h This was the guy who taught me 'bout rap Id only been a listener, now time to change that I put the pen to the pad And I vented my crap To end all this sadness And in a way yo it kept me from madness And so I kept on writing this rap sh** And now equipped for whatever came I had words like bullets in a clip in a chamber So even when I found out my step-father Had laid his hands on the kids and my mother I knew not to get violent It would only make things worse so I chose just to write it down Even if that sh** was too heavy to put out It helps to write about every cloud And since then I've had a lot of sh** happen So I sing my songs and i keep on rappin' The way most ( ? ) I hope this can be a help for you [Hook] [Verse 3:] I was found by the sounds When I was down, uh huh Now I letting it out, (let it out, let it out) And times in my life when I was blinded, (you know the feelin' right) You gave me that ( ? ), ( ? ) [Outro]