[Verse 1: Oppi]
Sitting on my back porch
Life is all you ask for
I've been good, what you ask for?
I'm a redwood in this asphalt
Forget about my cashflow
Verses might outlast those
Salary, naw what you making?
Salary, don't be forsaken
[Bridge: Oppi]
I guess it matters when it's all gone
It's just a matter of time, will you matter for long?
I guess it matters when it's all gone
It's just a matter of time, will you matter for long?
[Verse 2: Oppi]
I give a f** if ya'll don't feel me man I'm feeling myself
Ya'll don't toast to my health
Ya'll can't reach for my belt
Ya'll ain't took these footsteps
These ten toes, I ain't slipped yet
I've been down, I don't forget
I live and learn but still regret
See I got my palms up
One man ain't all us
Take down all these billboards
This ain't what we here for
Make a wave that ain't no shape determined by the moon
I got some brothers round the way the determined to make it soon
Whatever plan you got, a hand to a hand, it's best to see it through
Jay got on my pushing weight, he got a presidential view
I ain't goin' advocate but don't wait in this gold rush
Cause money makes decisions and they say they don't know us
[Chorus X 2: Oppi]
Go and take me to the roof
Show me where you stay
I've been dreaming of a sweet escape
I want to fly some day
With all my people
[Verse 3: Vhs]
Look I wonder where this all goes
She told me what the stars know
But I'm bundled up because I'd rather see them looking up with my eyes low
Watching out for these icicles
Falling fast but I grab hold
I've never been so I will go
This life here that's so so
And what you do is all you know
You got that but you need more
So get yours in this fine place
Talk smart, find fate
Look past these cold days with your warm legs got me so late
And I still wait, my heart sinks
Things happen, I don't think
I move fast, I'll break this
You think far, can I come with huh?
I'll be that and I'll be this
A strange hug and a missed kiss
No sleep and a long list
Of I should and what's good
I'm not doing what they would
No space so I stood on new growth in these old woods
And I don't have what they bring
Can't change that so I found things
High places we've never been
Way up and we need wings
With the city birds, they all sing
Can you hear it?
[Chorus X 2: Oppi]
Go and take me to the roof
Show me where you stay
I've been dreaming of a sweet escape
I want to fly some day
With all my people
[Outro]