Ilajide - Half As Long // Twice As Bright lyrics

[J Roc] Reaching for the stars, we'll catch 'em all with a skynet Terminator, always on top, numerator Y'all don't feel me, subterranean jeans, they say break a leg I get on stage and become a paraplegic Little light of mine vibrant Everything is in alignment Looping Orion through Levi's jeans we are shining [E-Fav] Like the pages of a rap book starring to rise an icon Glare (glow), Orion, a** grip on my sight on b**h slap you with my palm, thinking this Mr. Right On Mama don't be alarmed, thinking your son's Akon [Ilajide] Jihad this the a-bomb, more spirit than Saiyan I do it for my Mama when she told me bout my J gone Distorted out of sorts have to box us up like crayons Reflect the shine, ray band, you're drying out like raisins [Hook] We shining half as long, twice as bright tonight We shining half as long, twice as bright tonight So put a fist in the air Huey Newton the fight It's CSF in this b**h and we rocking it right We rock on and on an on and on On and on and on and on (x3) [E-Fav] Baby we shining, we own it Live for the moment, Inhale in the smoke And then drift into a coma, this the potentous Dopest since the Tribe CQ, coming soon n***a blazing through a speaker near you, spit that triple haiku Why you act fool, we are dope times two [Ilajide] Typhoon with a spoon, what we're cooking in the room Is incredible, immeasurable, by any file you Here we go, catching my sh** is velociraptic Attack it and now it's whipping them to five star splashing Mama I know you gasp 'em but you gotta know what got 'em We common denom'em we got ‘em on the bottom and rot 'em [J Roc] And you gon' read our ? with Ray Bans on Future bright as a quasar What you need know, we in a time crisis of dreams n***a reload, shoot it outside of the screen Only fall asleep to beats, take this instrumental Ambien Gun play ambience, surround sound ambulance Story of the city, watching Pac reload Keeping my body at work, gold like 3PO Everything I compose is full of gold The 14 carat sign it, go ahead pawn it [Hook] [Laz] I shine brighter make them squint at the writer My heart beat to a beat you can't beat what's inside it Keep an ear to the street and you can hear when I'm rhyming That my mind like a mine I got to blow to remind them People ? the kid turn his life into something It's like my Mom and Dad f** it how I grew up from nothing It's nothing, so when I'm pushing the bucket Cause the city and a deck can make a n***a some duckets Cash rules everything around me CREAM, get the money now these groupies all surround me Now I gotta question why you even ask about me When I'm out in public know you n***as tryna gas me See, I put my heart and ? in people that I'm f**ing with f** 'em then, feeling like I'm selling to the celibate Settling (never), to the top we gonna see You can catch a tan cause you know we gonna be [Hook]