Ray Ellis - Textbook lyrics

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Ray Ellis - Textbook lyrics

[Imogen Heap Sample] [Verse 1] Dreams of a team Hoping to blow up and to be seen on a screen Or am I just living Through false allegations of whats on my television Out working to be a witness of fortune in their position Instead of paying attention in cla** or paying tuition I'm sitting in my room, beats spinning, me spitting To the illest instrumentals, hoping you feel this mental Of a young black man whose pa**ionate through the pencil And nah, I ain't asking to be in issues of a Double XL Or magazines that are issued, Even though that would be dope I put my whole live on hold like rosaries, what I'm grasping is sentimental I'm blasting right at your temple without me grabbing a pistol Shooting lyrical bullets that may just happen to hit you I'm sorry for contact, but I will not miss I'm aiming for anybody who may feel like this, they like [Course : Imogen Heap Sample] [Ray Ellis Mumbles] They like They like what I'm saying They like what I'm doing They told me to drop my music And keep ya head into school I say no, so F a textbook, textbook Yea, F it [Verse 2] I told my family I wasn't going to college after I graduated I'll never forget the day that I looked in the saddest faces And tired to explain the way that, I know I'm gone make it But things started changing, and hearts started breaking My parents got separated and they went they separate ways Now my momma can't make a payment without getting section 8 And it hurts, cuz every time she opens up that budget plan I'm reminded I got to make it through this crooked government It's motivation cuz its takes me to a whole nother zone Where the eyes are closed, and the skies don't move And I'm standing in a room, Where I get to choose To to speak in this microphone until these people eyes are open To the sound of the truth, this is how I know I'm chosen To be spitting in a booth and make a difference with my notions Yea, now with that being said What makes you little n***as think you'll ever get in my head saying [Will Smith] It's very simple, this is what I believe, and I'm willing to die for it. Period The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is you have to believe it There's no reason to have a plan b because it distracts from plan a