[Verse 1] Usually I wait a couple of bars But ain't no time for that between and dayjob Prolly I should wait a couple summers But I'mma drop gems on you before the sky blue Blue ink on yellow paper, try'nna make it green Red numbers in my life, rent due by the fifteenth People holding pink hopes in color For young eye, few things be how they seem out here Is like a five cheese pizza Try'nna see past, it remind me of nina She said a child's eyes freedom Is not clouded with the fear of seeing I'm paraphrasing, but what I mean is Even if the face behind the desk Green black, brush is in the paint on your eyeballs [Hook] Baby, I know it burn bright Don't let your eyes adjust Keep 'em wide open though It might just, just might Dark fronting like a shining light Don't let your eyes adjust [Verse 2] I'm writing this to you while you're still in the room
Or you might be when I show up, but appear he's overdue Nine months if you're really there try'nna peak through Know that few things be what they appear to out here The right wind blow Charlie out in the US, she my one move My boy in London Is marching in Stockholm again though Half of those fools caught in the Stockholm syndrome Ain't no making excuses for But I still ain't see no newborn with Somebody taught them to see through couple thousand years powertripping It's a reason we call them, it be there It still be there Still dividing Laying down with your uncle, your uncle I feed That's why they building walls Long as the source pouring up the [Hook] Oh baby, I know it burn bright Don't let your eyes adjust Keep 'em wide open though It might just, just might Dark fronting like a shining light Don't let your eyes adjust