[Verse: Tom Pepe]
Look, to tell the truth y'all - I'm feeling pretty lost
I was trying to be a boss but they nailed me to a cross
Cut open my head so that they can read my thoughts
Blessed with this gift but it came at a cost
I be cursed in my own mind, hurts when I don't rhyme
Workin' on my verses like I'm searching through a gold mine
Lately I've been faced with reality, even college graduates barely got a salary
Rappers think they fat but they barely got a calorie
Grew up in Seattle, where they used to call me Casualty
Because I never backed down from a battle scene
Life is good but it damn sure ain't ha**le free
An MC, well it's sort of what I had to be
My life is one big beautiful catastrophe
I take a rap beat, turn it into a masterpiece
A starving artist, I ain't leaving 'til I had a feast
There's some things that I had to experience to stop being oblivious
And take life serious, I'm so tired everyday I feel delirious
Only livin' for the people who be hearing this
I make music cause see that's where all my spirit is
The definition of a heart felt lyricist
Hard to find, it don't matter what year this is
Nearly died now I'm livin' with this fearlessness
Like whatever gonna happen, hope it happens for a reason
If it don't well then I'm coast, still be happy that I'm eating
Life ain't fair, that's why I'm rappin' instead of preachin'
So I'm absolutely pa**ionate with every word I'm speakin'
If you feel it then just pa** it on, it's more people I'm reachin
A student of the truth but it's the youth that I be teachin'
If you breathing in the air seeing things ain't really fair
Make a difference because you can instead of livin' like you isn't there
Most nights well I feel like I have to write, my life's a chess game -
Seeing things black and white. We live like animals, thinkin' of the afterlife
It's overwhelming so we drinkin' or we pa** the pipe
I go to rap shows, wishin' they would pa** the mic -
'Cause they repeatin' what you heard like a cla** you don't like
I'm back in the fight, ain't asking you twice It's only ignorance left so I pa** on the right
And...
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[Hook: Tom Pepe]
And I keep tryin', giving you my soul but I know it ain't the one that you buying
And I keep runnin', feeling all alone but I know I didn't come here with nothing
And I keep tryin', giving you the real yo I feel what I know that you lying
And I keep tryin', giving you my soul but I know it ain't the one that you buying
And I keep tryin', yo I keep tryin'
And I keep tryin, giving you my soul but I know it ain't the one that you buying
Still I keep tryin, yeah - I keep tryin'
I keep tryin', giving you my soul but I know it ain't the one that you buying