LADDER Lyrics

Yo

Let me just say

It gets louder inside my head

Than it is on the streets

And it's crowded with things that the devil said

Yeah, he's been talking to me

See, you think I don't understand what you're going through

How could I possibly

But I'mma be honest, I deal with it too

All this striving for destiny

And always climbing up some ladder with your tongue up

Determined to reach the next rung up till your neck gets rung

Cause you got hung up on the next level of achievement that they strung up

Your eyes were right there for them to dangle it in front of

Now you wonder to yourself what will become of you

If unlike Gatorade it isn't in you and you cannot one up

Everyone who came before, even those under which you were brung up

And whose praises you once sung of

And find you're on the top floor looking down wondering what the ground feels like

You think you might throw the towel in

Give it up completely cause you're beat and you were hoping that it'd neatly be in place under your feet

It isn't right but you just wanna share the mess that you're dealing with

With the rest of the world that's been stealing from ya

That's why you say that you feel cheated by this mythologic monolith

You think it has defeated every effort you put forth no matter how much you keep telling

All your friends and everyone including God as if he didn't know exactly what you needed

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta bring it back down to the bottom now

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta climb back down

Depleted and bittersweetly resenting the choices you made

Just to feel like you made it, you wish you would've saved it

All that effort that you gave it, but you've been a slave to every ambition that you braved

And they buried you under their weight you now feel from the frame of the thirty-first floor window pane

You now stand in and feel the demands of the grave so you pray that you don't hear an echo or today

It will become crystal clear

That you caved to the pressures that were pressing you to answer the pavement

When you found out it was paved all the way to the top

With all the others who had stopped to turn back and look back at the lives they were missing

Those who felt misinformed after all of that spitting and hitting and kicking and dripping with sweat

While they were fishing for trophies and taking their licks in this competition

But they were winning, they were counting their bricks

All those shots that they missed while emotions were mixed amidst all the ripping and risking it all

Swimming in oceans and seas of a pleases themselves

All the vixens were vexing and witches were hexing to get 'em all seized

Big and tall, get 'em squeezed, for every penny that they're worth

All the way back, to their birth

And somehow you think that I don't understand what you're going through

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta bring it back down to the bottom now

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta climb back down

Looking down a hole in the top of the open bottle you're tipping up, you're twisting the story

You think you're sitting sipping up hope but you're tripping and sniffling

Carefully watching 'em switching, crossing wires and twitching

They're like bombs and they're ticking cause their time is fast slipping deeper into the cracks of the sidewalks

Where skipping is something that only their children can do

Their generation's been skipped

Left with nothing but wishing as if their destiny's written in stone

Bitten, outwitted, smack in the middle of fitting to get it

You bet it's a dogfight world and dog eat dog

And no one throws you a bone, come on

Humility's fleeting, mistreating is what is heating on the stove

Everyone's eating what's cooking up and we're cheating

No one else only ourselves if we continue to think that we're gonna rise

Without a stronger foundation we can rely on

Try on this one for a minute, for size, and then just admit it

That the bottom is starting to look a lot like we're in its beginning

We need to bring it back down

Pick up all of the bodies we trodded while plotting our probably ruin

And probably look at how Jesus was doing the things as a clue into

How we should handle all these delusions of grandeur

And then choose more wisely, yes I advise thee to start chastising, your self-rising

For those who exalt themselves will be humbled

And those who humble themselves

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta bring it back down to the bottom now

If you wanna go higher, you gotta dig deeper

And if you're gonna dig deeper, you gotta climb back down

Will be exalted