Let it ride Got to get it and go I admit I don't know What I need anymore Plenty time For these pennies and dimes Want it dead or alive Too invested to die Too congested to cry Too complex with disguise Too obsessed to despise Too immensin’ to just exit and let it slide yea Swear this shit get me every time Priorities in my mind If I’m getting intertwined You just caught me in a bind Ma said be a simple man But I'm simply in a jam If I could’ve gave it up Then nobody’d give a damn If I needed saving uh Then would you still give a hand and man If I could land on my feet I would have You either look fear in the face or look past it I'm not there I got caught up in the nine-yard stare And even though I had the chance to prepare I'm aware I couldn’t let it spill You let it all bottle up and it builds And even still I wouldn't let it spill You play your role until it's out of control But don’t believe that it never will It's real life when it isn’t a drill But even still I wouldn’t let it spill You either Unreliable Or undeniable Put in the miles so You reached the milestone It took a while so, It’s out of style now The jury judging your tribulations and trials now I kept it hard pressed It kept my heart stressed Don’t have your arms stretched Unless its far fetched Until the mood strike Until its right to We in the moon light I’m on my night moves Yea Like I was outback in the Chevy Celebration wasn’t in order yet we tossing confetti I bet he, Thought he would make it by the thread of the needle The purest one out of the bunch the biggest threat to the people Well I might lose it still I got delusional I only sleep to dream I only shoot to kill Fill in the voids but know that bloods gonna spill It’s real life when it isn’t a drill But even still I couldn’t let it spill Let it all bottle up and it builds And even still, I couldn't let it spill You play your role until it's out of control But don’t believe that it never will It's real life when it isn’t a drill But even still I couldn’t let it spill Worried bout the overkill You got the Sand inside your hand until you watch it slip Time of the essence no time to politic Feel like I’m swimming round with piranha fish Yea Feel like I’m killing my own prerogative No satisfaction with wasted time when you sit inside I’d worry less bout the pressure if I could press decline They say the present a present but now we pressed for time The tension starts to get heated and you get pressure fried Well-spoken and well played Until I got the itis just like I was in 12th grade I Know that you seen mine know that I seen yours My flaw like a fashion now feast your eyes on my features I’m Jumping in feet first Scared of the head change But I did my research So just let me explain How could I express Til I got lost in the mess And I ain’t got much to give So try to give them my best Cuz I been pressed to even let it spill Let it all bottle up and it builds But still I wouldn't let it spill Play your role until it's out of control But don’t believe that it will never will It's real when it isn’t a drill You under pressure Or it’s overkill Crafting in my zone Don’t fuck with my priorities I been on my own Don’t fuck with my priorities Happiness my home Don’t fuck with my priorities All of these priorities All of these All of these Uh Crafting in my zone Don’t fuck with my priorities I been in my zone Don’t fuck with my priorities Happiness my home Don’t fuck with my priorities All of these priorities All of these All of these All of these

Yea Yea yea Yea To the early risers and late arrivers Aye Aye Back on the way again Lot on my cranium Stop tipping the scale I don’t like weighing in I paid out the premium This the elysium Don’t nobody care they fill you with air Then double dare you to take in the helium I had the feeling of hanging the hat Not as appealing as hanging a plaque I moved away and I think about mike I drifty away just to go to the max Look at the past sipping a pabst aye But I keep it intact aye Keep myself on my toes woah And watch out for traps Cuz when it snap You got to ride You got to move And improvise Learn to adapt Keep it on track Feel like the glue I’m still attached aye And I’m still attached too I was just caught in a snafu And now I’m just seeing it through Even when I don’t know what to do I’m optimistic Yea That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how I’m optimistic That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how to be But they don’t know how I’m optimistic I got to get it And it took a minute Now The chances infinite But if you afraid to get back up You go deeper down in the ditch And if you get hung up on bad luck You never could handle the risk Too in it for letting it slide Putting the fear to the side woah Never was cutting the tie Unless we couldn’t kick it like tae bo I should’ve shutten my pie whole But I got too much on my mind So the moment is where I reside Imma be here until I resign Just because I’m I’m optimistic Yea That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how I’m optimistic That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how to be But they don’t know how I’m optimistic To the early risers and late arrivers Yea That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know how to be That’s all I know

Yea yea Thank you Much obliged Who would’ve thunk it Shoot the bucket and you sunk it Heard them boys was up to something They was creeping to the summit How I love it Hear emoji to the journey And with every twist and turn I raise the bar like an attorney How I see it I go Gandhi to the problems I was loving on a blondie now I’m leaving Guess it’s that time of the season Donny hear it then he chop it While I’m plotting on the topic that I’m speaking How convenient Got to see it Hey this the processes of the predecessors It’s thumbs up not middle finger to the second guessers They ten and two That’s shit I didn’t intend to do I tend to wounds Like I was tying my tennis shoes I kept Intune to the trekking and now I’m stepping through I gave the booth my confession this the confession room To whom Or whichever way you address it With the stresses I been getting to investment When I’m messing with the phases And I think negativity contagious And I know pity partying is dangerous So you can take me as I am Or keep it moving this the only other chance While I’m handling the phases And I swear negativity contagious And I know pity partying is dangerous And when you living on this land Couple things that’s rather hard to understand When you handling the phases But it’s nothing but a mind state Whooo Shit you try to do to get your mind straight And even if I knew you could choose to rewind fate Well shit I wouldn’t we finally starting to vibrate They acting fishy be careful with all that live bate I’m on the dock sitting Word the clock ticking The gab was god gifted How could I gossip it Shit I got lead to the water how could I not sip it Hard to argue when you know it’s of the essence And the older that you get they didn’t ever seem to mention There’s this price you got to pay If you forget to pay attention It’s for certain it’ll surface when I’m tempted Check it If I’m caught up in the moment I might overlook the omen They motion to throw a stone I appreciate the token So before I’m at my lowest Drive it like I stole it Anymore I’m too ferocious with the focus to be noticing the phases And I think negativity contagious And I swear pity partying is dangerous So you can take me as I am Or keep it moving this the only other chance While I’m handling the phases And I swear negativity contagious Cuz every day that shit testing my patience And when you living on this land You’ll be damned way before you’ll be the man Then again It’d be a shame if I changed and I let it die Flying through a phase I’m amazed I ain’t got redder eyes How you gonna win if you afraid to ever sever ties Searching for the gem inside And that’s word to the geminis Yea Trying to catch a buzz like the electric slide Moving at this pace you get complement for the exit signs But walking through the motions you don’t get the proper exercise Never let them stress your mind The only test the test of time Yea It’s like the only test the test of time You damn right It’s like the only test the test of time Push him to the edge it only ended in intensified The only test the test of time Homie I could testify

Yea Hide your thorns with a rose Can't hide your scars with your clothes when the scars on your soul Ain't a star but ya glow Hide my thorns with a rose So in the morning ain't nobody really knows what I know It's not a secret I just never followed sequence about having all these problems Telling everyone my grievance And they talking two cents Shit I tell em just to keep it The dream is far away, but who's to say that you cant' reach it I been leaping man Honestly I been picking flowers just to handle animosity All In hopes that I'll be growing modestly And right before I went to set out on this Odyssey Man something really had been stopping me I had to smell the Daffodils Wasn't a God Damn thing til I stopped to smell the Daffodils Cuz when you living out a dream gotta stop to smell the Daffodils You get to sucked in and everything just become half as real Gotta stop to smell the daffodils It got me singing like La La La La Hey La La La La La It got me singing like La La La La La La La La La It got me singing like Take care of it You better cherish it I mean it's yours, why make it more with comparisons Too much comparing gon' only lead into arrogance The burden's lighter when we sharing it Me I had to water the garden Started watching it grow Frozen winters in the cold We was watching it snow Coming from an institution Where we honor a code Like motherfucker is you on it or no It's been like that since I parted my home Feel like the flowers I've encountered all over So different from the ones that I've known I never noticed a clone So when I'm down and I'm stuck in a low Hey this the shit I do to get In my zone I smell the Daffodils Wasn't a God Damn thing til I stopped to smell the Daffodils Cuz when you living out a dream gotta stop to smell the Daffodils You get to sucked in and everything just become half as real Gotta stop to smell the daffodils It got me singing like La La La La Hey La La La La La It got me singing like La La La La La La La La La It got me singing like It got me singing like What am I talking about

I kind of thought about I kind of thought about I get up and get on I kindly walked up out it I get up and I’m gone I finally walked up out it I finally Yea You gotta Carry on the like the luggage on your trip tonight The packing and leaving always my kryptonite The passing of seasons will let you know you missed it But I’ll still give it a minute listen I’m optimistic Went in the boots of the wiser man for the dryer land When night was closing eye to the fire and Even if I was flyer I couldn’t try to land And even if I aspired I would still have to reach higher I took a look in the mirror but didn’t look to admire I asked him what you require I’m tryna get it clear Cuz when it’s down to the wire And you get urgent and dire It’s like you either perspire Or learn to persevere Left lane hold up let me explain Fuck it See through them like I’m using x-ray Fuck it Got dang hopped off of the bed frame Tell them all bets are off This is not an off day I’m saying You got to listen closely Don’t got to get to know I push the will to the limit until I’m pushing posies I’m over overthinking I know it’s still unfolding The stories told while we chasing after the gold Getting (Closer To be closer) So take a breath Life isn’t a game of chess To be (Closer To be closer) Though I’m aware I know you got to prepare To be (Closer To be closer) And I confess I started getting obsessed To be (Closer To be closer) The love was rare so I’m certain we getting there So I Used the ladder Ain’t get caught up in the superstition I see it through cuz my fortitude isn’t futuristic I tried to hold her cuz closure was never in her nature But there’s no keeping that loving inside the incubator Later michael She was ready to leave My heart was heavy But I was steady on letting it breathe She cast a spell and caused a hell of a scene If umbrellas was for the rain She a head full of steam I mean She’ll have you sweating beads This type of living ain’t cumbersome or necessity When I was down and diminished she still was kicking me But I would always return to her like special teams Could’ve been the end of me Put them in the end to see Forget about integrity Forgiven every suspicion I live relentlessly Seeing it through is such a kick in the ass I’d be a fool if I lived in the past and that’s that Come on I told her thank you kindly I got to break the binding She know I love her but lovers can be so undermining Go with the tide Or get ready to cut the tie Sometimes hello is just not good as goodbye When you trying to be (Closer To be closer) So take a breath Love isn’t a game of chess To be (Closer To be closer) Though I’m aware for her you got to prepare To be (Closer To be closer) And I confess I started getting obsessed To be (Closer To be closer) That love was rare so I’m certain we getting there And we step And we step And we step Woah To the front To the right To the left Woah And we step And we step And we step Woah And we live And we love And we let Go And we step And we step And we step From the front To the back To the left That’s the word That’s the word That’s the crest And we live And we love And we let And we get We getting We getting No proposition No time for the contradictions Was dropping it like a call Now I’m learning to handle business Did the conversion This version is catalytic Call the lieutenant Stop being timid Now wait a minute We Ain’t even finished We Just barely fizzing Binary fission Wait till the speakers blow This sound like speaker phone I found the keys to the keeping on Got an even flow So take it in and eat your heart out love I brought it home like I parked out front Not to stunt But to be (Closer To be Closer) Though I confess I started getting obsessed To be (Closer To be closer) The love was rare so I’m certain we getting there To be (Closer To be closer) I live it by the sword The motto And more by the crest Just to be (Closer To be closer) Put the stress to the left and forget all the rest We getting We getting We getting We getting We getting We getting We getting We getting Closer To be closer To be closer To be closer

Pulled into town with a pocket full Yea It feels good when you earn your keep Uh Put the horse in the stable Get the food on the table I’ve been waiting for my turn to speak Well patience is a virtue when you yearn to seek And on this road these turns last an eternity Is your happiness certainty or the currency I wanted both but shit it never occurred to me That you got to Chew proper When you eat with fakes Spew proper No Chewbacca When you speak to snakes They gas you up then tell you ease the brakes And that’s the icing on the piece of cake Hey fuck them then I said my peace and ate Then proceeded to hit the high road But What do I know Cuz I only want to spread the love but I wasn’t even hesitant to clean my plate I guess I never had the cleanest slate I got to leave today I’m on the move Don’t know direction I go any way I choose Your pride starts to prune when you got too much to prove Man I’m glad that they amused This gon’ put me in the tomb It’s gon’ put me in a I’m on the move Not another millisecond I can lose Never in it for the views Please don’t get this shit confused I don’t need to see it won I just want to see it through I just want to see it I’m not lost but I’m not here Was never in it for the views never in it for the Yea Got to have trust when you God fear Please don’t get this shit confused when you do Ok you prayed on it Started getting lazy you just laid on it Never paid a due but you paid homage Treat the mic like you was on the stand so you stayed honest Or is that a fake promise Looking for a sigh of relief That bull shit that you speaking really starting to reek And the colors that you know is really starting to show And you started losing drive so now you park in the street Good grief What happened to a motherfucker See reflection really wishing that I knew motherfucker Is it ooh rah Is it hoo yah What’s it to ya I would say that I was cooling but I got to keep it moving I just got to keep it I’m on the move Don’t know direction I go any way I choose Your pride starts to prune when you got too much to prove Really glad that they amused Guess I’m sticking with the tunes Guess I’m sticking with the I’m on the move Not another millisecond I could lose Never in it for the views Please don’t get this shit confused I don’t need to see it won I just need to see it through I just need to see it Eyes to the pavement Eyes to the pavement No yellow bricks but my Eyes to the pavement Mind to the sky Eyes to the pavement Sign of the times is Time isn’t wasted Keep it to the grindstone how I stay alive I told my momma not to worry it’s a state of mind You’ll never make it if you staying too ashamed to shine The beds made got to lay in mine Keep my Eyes to the pavement Eyes to the pavement Tired of waiting No time for debatement Was Live from the basement Now my mind in a spaceship With my eyes to the pavement With my eyes to the pavement Even still sometimes I got to stop to look around See the sky blue The sunshine through To my surprise I saw right through their disguise You start missing when you moving Before long you gon’ despise when You on the move Don’t do direction but you know you got to choose Never in it for the views Please don’t get this shit confused Before my pride starts to prune Before my pride starts to prune Shit I got too much to Prove I’m on the move Not another millisecond I could lose Never in it for the views Please don’t get this shit confused I don’t need to see it won I just need to see it through I just need to see it I just need to see it I just need to see it I just need to see it through I just need to see it through I just need it to be true

Take a look around and what do you see Is there plenty pain Is there many change Is the beauty viewable Or tell me is it UV Is it black and gray Is it black and gray Can you back away Yea tell me what do you see Is there many change Is there plenty pain I never saw your side could you introduce me You couldn’t see it anyway By the way Why you asking anyway I would say I think you special just like .38 And as of late My mind been murky as a dirty plate It’s been a minute since I’ve been doing some work I hate And you been getting fed the bullshit To the point that you ready to regurgitate So go ahead and spill some guts to me The blunt the rough and the gluttony Good the bad and the ugly I’m always tripping off what troubles me But your side is what I would love to see Could you try to tell me what’s your vision like How you see the stars how you see the grass How you see the future and the past What’s your vision like How you see the love when it’s in your grasp How is it enough to make it last What’s your vision like And how you know what’s coming on the path Are you scared that you might crash Got to tell me what’s your vision like You gon’ look at me and laugh But Honestly I knew I had to ask I see I see I see love and I see hating I see angel I see satan I see credence I’ve been creeping Just a creature of creation Since the cat was in the cradle Fables Can’t tell a lie But the fatal was steady faking and ready to improvise So either devise a plot Or You become the plotted That’s predator verse the pray that had paved the way for the problems Salvation been gone It just disappeared in the midst If this the season I miss I’ll only seize to exist They can try to make you quit But they’ll never cease and desist You can’t deceive the convinced I only needed a glimpse My vision been blurry Indeed it did need a rinse Couldn’t see the shit the same ever since I was looking from the outside Thinking inside was the place to be Wondering if there would be a place for me And stand behind the line And read the chart for them A to Z And tell them bout reality and make believe And now I’m finally seeing what the vision like How you see the stars How you see the grass How you see the future and the past What the visions like How you see the love when it’s in your grasp How is it enough to make it last What the visions like How you know what’s coming on the path And be sure that you don’t crash Yea tell them what the vision like You gon’ look at me and laugh Do the math Multiplying my divisions like

And it go On and on and on for days Wonder round trying to find a way Don’t fuck with these priorities And on for days Wonder around trying to find a way We got all of these priorities Just don’t fuck with my priorities Was never one to want to rap about the rapid waves That vessel crash and pretty fast you just a castaway I life is born and in the night Another bite the dust So if you trying to make it right That’s alright with us Too many times I been scared of the scars On the stairs to the stars Cuz I care And I swear that I could carry it far Trust me So quit now and be buried alive Fuck it Cuz half-assings how you barely survive I could feel it in the air When I stare in the sky damn I am Searching for the dry land Dollar and a dream I got five on it Come alive and thrive on it Never been surprised cuz it happened by design see I been trying to get this bitch to buzz Until we pop like a prescription drug You know the story Lose sight of the light when the sun’s blocked My great aunt passed from prozac and a gunshot And I’ve been feeling lost like I can’t see the end anymore And I don’t think that I can blend anymore Little too timid Mikey It’s unlikely He would be anyone Now I been saying that the sagas begun But scared of what I’ve become I got a conscious that’s as hot as the sun And when defeat is on the tip of my tongue That there’s a bad feeling Front row joe Or you can just be in the back chilling You can die a hero Or see yourself as the masked villain The choice is yours Now my voice is heard through the loudspeakers That’s the difference giving in And the out reaching So keep seeking Or pretty soon you get out reasoned My act clean I ain’t ever needed no house keeping Walking round these mouse traps What about that Knocked down But like a bad check I just bounce back Constant improvisions Just to push it to the limit They was worried bout the levels We been focused on divisions They was worried bout a mistress I’m focused on commitment When it comes to the vision This is different That’s coming from a kid Who never did shit but doubt shit See an obstacle and would prefer to go around it Now I try to sit But shit The pressure’s too astounding Moved to Nashville my momma still working in Tallmadge Family full of hard-working folks that I’m lucky to have Gave us a life I know that none of them had I got a mother in fact That broke her back Just so me and my sis Would never have a single reason to bitch And I’m a couple states away But she still know that I’d be home in a pinch But it gets tough when you know you got the dream in a clinch I guess the unknown is something that you just got to go see And I still got the petty nerve to say that I’m lonely Shit Got to meditate Let it marinate We all carry weight If the record break Imma set it straight Heaven’s gates Guarded by King Martin Luther Junior and Sharon Tate Shit is unfair But we share the space Step and evolve Or just let it dissolve Cuz in the end You just another sketch they etch on the wall And if that well runs dry Then it is what it is But if the dream doesn’t die Then it lives You ask me what I’m doing I say handling the biz It ain’t time to decline It’s the time to ascend Amen

Gotta keep it runnin’ like a snotty nose But there’s a lot of stop and go for the pot of gold Feelings of the hot and cold really gotten old Runnin’s pure improbable if you got rotten soul Fix the sole of your sneaker if it’s possible Just know the ticker on the time isn't pausable So the state you sittin’ is probably optimal Just be weary of illusions in your optical Try to see it straight, try to recreate Only made a mess, spoke it with my heart like I hate my chest Need to take a breath Need a taste of fresh You can place your bets, imma pace my steps Need my space to vent so When it rain here, got the way clear Don’t wanna go there, could you stay hear Just got a couple things that I been tryna make clear Like I ain’t gotta see a sleigh near to know the present should be Gift Wrapped A dream only a dream and hey I get that (Knocked down but I get back, knocked down but I) Either way tomorrow come you gotta live that (Knocked down but I get back, knocked down but I) It’s just insane how it change I don’t get that (Knocked down but I get back) I guess today something you ain’t gonna get back Learned it in my last few Gotta think it over before you quick to react to A silly situation, that’s simply gettin’ me mad I wish the anger had passed and this some shit I’d relax to With my seat back, and my feet up Know I want some but I don’t need none Finally got a little bit of time that freed up Fuck it what’s the chances me and you could try to meet up And I would spill the tea Ouu funny, silly me I been wasting all my time writing these soliloquies I don’t know if it’s a lot but it’s all the little things You been runnin’ through my mind testin’ my agility Could it be We in a rut now, thinking that we stuck now Hearing’ from you less shit I guess it’s the run round Your smart ways got me dumb found Why is it always on the come down You see the present should be Gift Wrap A dream only a dream and hey I get that (Knocked down but I get back, knocked down but I) Either way tomorrow come you gotta live that (Knocked down but I get back, knocked down but I) It’s just insane how it change I don’t get that (Knocked down but I get back) I guess today something that you’ll never get back But could I get back? Started movin’ too fast Tell me how it happened Time would never pass, now it’s past the everlasting So the newest fashion, do it with a passion Shouldn’t have to miss a moment passin’ To know the present should be Gift Wrapped

More time on my hands than ever At 23 I bet pap had some hands of leather But he can see the resemblance when we stand together That’s just the type of relationship that the family whether Would’ve grabbed a coat But nope I didn’t plan for weather Kath said she’d send my jacket in a jiffy Good to know they got my back when the situation gets sticky Or cold But there’s a part of my soul Thinking Back to a desert day That was the place where I swear that it never rained But you got river of liquor to keep you entertained Faded moments but the memories don’t ever fade Those were the days when I bought my first Chevrolet Bow our heads when they’d say People let us pray November 10 had more weight than election day You build a bond that a song couldn’t replicate But checking now Shit I’ve been gone for a minute Ain’t done the uncle sam job for a minute I really loved the whole journey But I knew I had to switch up the mission So I slipped into a different position From the prone to the stand Yep Stand to the run Never really was my jam to have my hand on the gun Miss the land that I’m from That’s the land that I love Wouldn’t say that I ran But I been out on the lamb So on the tail end Shit I got to go two shakes with it Sometimes I write Sometimes I go off of the toupee with it Try to save the rigid rhythms For the Tuesday night’s And manage to stay bright Shout out to true day light I love the sun When you wake up to that light in the sky Don’t talk none if I ain’t feeling the vibe I was worried that the grind wouldn’t’ work And I’d be still in the drive That rear view shows a hell of a ride I put my soul on my sleeve So you can see with your eyes I spoke this shit from the heart And very seldom with pride I’m still surprised When I put priorities to the side How you supposed to be divine When you can’t manage time But when it’s all said and done And I’m reflecting on the day May the work I put in Be a reflection of the way How the life turned out Bound to happen anyway So I’m enjoying every step Not a second goes to waste So imma say If this the last call Do a favor for me would you maybe make the glass tall Alright Alright Alright If this the last call Then imma sip it slow so I can make it last long All night All night All night Yea I grew up in my beginnings same as you and yours I had dreams of Hollywood like the movie stores Second grade is when I heard that first 50 track The third grade the teacher taught us about troubadours I miss my town though it didn’t have that city feel Leaning on the windowsill Back at thistle hill Or you can catch a feature film Out at tinsel ville Nostalgia always give me chills Yep I miss it still Back then it’s like the problems were miniscule Now I see the news and we miserable Is it from the way that we constrained to the digital Or only praise the pretty And bring pity to the pitiful But I ain’t one for judging I ain’t one for jumping to conclusion When the shit’s confusing I know that it’s true Illusion does arise When you choosing sides Fuck an expectation I just keep it moving Love always the truest We was destined to it I was stressing looting For the revolution Not the resolution I need to plan ahead but never far as end solution A soul got a lot to say when you step inside I let the rest go to rest Cuz when it’s all said and done Did you see the day through Did you hit all of the goals That you swore you’d aim to Did you take up all the room Is there any to improve Been a mighty long day And hey we’ve all been through When you hear them yell for last call And you just pray to god maybe they would make the glass tall Alright Alright Alright But it’s the last call Then imma sip it slow so I can make it last long All night All night All night If this the last call Then do a favor for me maybe would you make the glass tall Alright Alright Alright If this the last call Imma have my last sip leave a tip and hit the asphalt All night All night All night If this the last call Do a favor for me would you maybe make the glass tall Alright Alright Alright If this the last call Then imma sip it slow so I can make it last long Alright Alright All night Yea