Nyle - Livin In The Shade lyrics

[Hook] Livin in the shade oh I'm so gray Running in a dream a mile away Waiting as the times fly by My right side, I have arrived Livin in the shade oh I'm so gray Running in a dream a mile away Waiting as the times fly by My right side, I have arrived [Verse 1] Some started rapping cause they want to get the girls Others are born poets who want to express the world through words Which we yield as weapons to threaten others to battle It's who get paid and stay on the straight and narrow Now I didn't do it cause the girls thought it was stupid Didn't get into it to pursue a revolution Cause I was reminiscing of the days of Wild Style I started rhyming cause I hated Lil Bow Wow The rap's Miley Cyrus And I just caught the virus When I decided, that I should take him down And it's all, if he could get signed to spit you these rhymes Given the platform I could go platinum a million times And with stars in my eyes, I crapped the bed That was grade 7, and I've been rapping ever since All them years ago when I prepared to flow but here I am Still an amateur but now grown a** man [Hook] [Verse 2] Pursuing a career in music is probably the most stupid, selfish thing that I could do with my life I could use my degree to try and change policy Instead of spitting every moment bruising the mic And I'm choosing it right Not to be the new light To liberate generation and show 'em what's right I'm using music as a solution, for myself Cause honestly I can't see me doing nothing else So I refuse to put my dreams on the shelf And take refuge and refute that will help I see you at the top Cause it's way to late to about face it if we arrived or not I'mma give it all we got This industry is dying, giving birth to opportunity Less jobs, less money, more room for community Which means you can get plays on your Myspace page But half a million hits don't equip to being paid But damn it, I'm in love with the stage So yeah, I'm afraid I won't garish no wage But until that day I put the pen to the page But I'll be livin in the, livin in the, livin in the [Hook] [Outro] Why do we do it? I don't know why we do it We do it cause we love the music