[Verse 1] Picturing the future, past, and present Compare to contrast, to my named paved on cement Making my mark on society of state and time But I'm working in my prime to keep the rate sublime An maybe it's crazy to be shirking, lurking for a better life Sometimes it's like breaking a fetter with a knife Brothers getting used to shoe laces Spewed places, backgrounds, memories hound, strew traces Many races, plenty faces, grace is herbing in the garden of life
Peaces lived, forgived, but was murdered by the strife Poetry singing, flowers springing, and the hours wringing Clouds devouring air, the flare towering the very bare The devils snare the weak and its a glare shriek, a family rancid Heirs speak to gain finances, or to avoid strain chances I grooving to rain dances And in an instance of pain, we must gain our advances