Lumenate - Bars after Bars lyrics

You must listen to the Elephant, he stand in the room No avoidin' the lesson, lesser you talk, I will prove Everything I ever dreamed of will be soon comin' true I feel enormous, ego big you cannot walk in my shoes Let's get it, oh lord Runnin' out the back door Hop into a black car Pullin' out the backyard The backyardigans are damagin' the hooligans You mediocres really should go back to school again To touch up on the subjects when you never paid attention Like: you listen to my oldies just in case I'm ever mentioned In a conversation, save it, always patiently statin' The facts - this dedication and a heart in the making, in fact Remember bein' little like "I hope I will make it" Then at 21 years I was one of the greatest And if that - don't get you on your f**in' toes I got plenty mo' flows that'll have you wipe your nose I'm the cold man, frozen, arctic sand and I'm Holdin', moldin', closin' in, but I Know that I might go right in If they give me a beat I can "fin" Like fatality, your majesty, the casualties done I done swept the floor with everyone and mopped with their tongues This is not a new rendition of what I might become I got 99 methods, bein' rich ain't one I can see why you would wallow all the way to gallows When you constantly in competition with your own shadow I ain't comin' up short, I report, not a snob, but I snort at retorts That be sayin' I'm supportive of the violence in the city, might as well just pull the chord Cause the plug kept us alive but won't hold us up in court Ain't nobody f**in' with me, I don't even need a stencil Just to draw up some more imagery that I write with a pencil This ain't history, this mystery, enigma in the making Better turn a blind eye soon as everybody faking Taking everything they can Cause when they think ahead they don't see a vital plan Or even understand I was rollin' down the street pretendin' I was in a rented Tinted windows, dented on the fender when I fully vented My emotions to the atmosphere and slowly looked around I was in a void yelling as if there was just a crowd And nobody comin' near Cause everything I'm saying got'em trembling in fear, ugh Pedal to the metal when I go in top gear By the time I reach my limit you 'gon see me switchin' tiers With no peers Not even your top 5 could battle my top lines I get the motive "competition", f** it, it's all mines And I ain't sharin' any of my cake 'less you rollin' with the squad Sittin' at the dinner table sending prayers to the Gods Cause after this move, we'll be goin' for their ranks Funny, water gives us life and I'm the fish outside the tank Or the salty piece of food in the belly of the beast Tell me, will you sing about me or just tell me rest in peace? Everything I ever wanted can't be too far off from now And eventually, man, you gon' see me buyin' Momma's house On the beach in Dominican Republic with a peach in her right hand Drink in the left, and her skin so pretty in the light, I confess That her son in the game tryna' lift the sundress, like b**h Milkin' the mothaf**in' cash cow Workin' so hard and I feel I'm 'bout to pa** out Many free tickets to my upcoming shows Just so everyone can show up and think "Man he really blows." This from AM to PM to the end, please I got old friends and new friends that love my frees I got business connections that you won't believe I got music and lyrics and melodic beats I got fans and the talent and all these things But I ain't sh** 'til I put to use what I have received I found a little piece of heaven in the art of my craft I found a little piece of hell that always stuck on my path I drank the holy water, whole, then I swallowed the gla** And I ain't preachin' for nothin', better give me what I ask This is how I- Paint a pretty picture from the pineal Everyone around me lookin' at me like I'm not real People think that I be only making sh** up For the buzz or the love or the film reel But, then still- They comin' to me daily just get some more vibes Cause everything that I be saying resonates with their lives I know I got a lot of time to make it out of this city But I ain't tryna wait no more, I need to do it more quickly So I picked up on the writing, swiftly Nobody gets me I'm feelin' empty And all my research seems so iffy If I go present out into the public, I'm a hippy If I keep it to myself then ain't nobody growin with me Aye, Remember when you listen to support who I am Local hip-hop in a jam and we need some more fans I'll give you what you need but do not take what you can I don't tolerate greed, please retract your hands Strong performance, I'm searchng for endorsements Man, I could spit forever, but some things are more important And I could write a letter to my future self to tell me look back On the past when I used to be a c-cla** act And then smile- Cause look how far I done came I went from scramblin' sampled eggs to scramblin' brains And trust, no part of my wisdom was related to grades I wasn't trying to pa**, I was just turning the page