Overture / The World's a Stage ft. Chocq. T Lyrics

I want to stay backstage

I want to stay backstage

I don't want no one to follow me

So many roles that I play

And everybody want to play with me

I want to stay backstage

I don't want no one to follow me

So many roles that I play

And everybody want to play with me

Sometimes we got to live inside the moment

Sometimes we got to stop and smell the roses

The stage is set for you

All for you

The tree of life never stops growing

Even when them heaven doors open

The stage is set for you

All for you

Yeah

Yeah I think it's time for a tabula rasa

Clean the slate clean the plate get rid of the imposters

I got friends that's lawyers and doctors killers and robbers

And I'm just somewhere in between trying to figure out all this

Feeling hopeless in this life trying to think of the next stage

Was like a homeless man with pride now I've learned to accept change

You ain't know

It's human nature you ain't know

Our thoughts like rivers watch it flow

We plant a seed then watch it grow

Memories of our sacred family tree

Got us branching off to places that no one could foresee

Just in search of our peace

Like the sun we shine for many tomorrows

They rain on our parade we can't drown in our own sorrows

Desensitized to pain and loss feel the numbness

Second guessing if we feeling means we still feeling something I swear

Yeah my vision is clear

Mother Nature birthed the story I'm just happy to share

I'm just happy to share

Sometimes we got to live inside the moment

Sometimes we got to stop and smell the roses

The stage is set for you

All for you

The tree of life never stops growing

Even when them heaven doors open

The stage is set for you

All for you

Yeah

Code-switching for all my auditions

Trading places changing faces wit God as my witness

Every single stage of our lives is just that

A performance a theatric a valuable act

In the hood we playing roles for pure survival

It's in the way we walk the way we talk it's so insightful

Mean mug and street talk we do it with our eyes closed

Walking on the block feel like I'm walking on a tight rope

With a blindfold

Them cop lights feel like stage lights

We got stage fright

They pull us over turn our voice white

College boy imposter syndrome feeling out of place

Tough classes no help I almost exited the stage

Got to stick to the script nigga

Or you get recasted

Casting spells give you hell just to put you in caskets

Damn

They might smile in your face but it's just a mask

I hope I'm free of bondage when the curtains close and season pass

Sometimes we got to live inside the moment

Sometimes we got to stop and smell the roses

The stage is set for you

All for you

The tree of life never stops growing

Even when them heaven doors open

The stage is set for you

All for you

Yeah

Act one the world is greedy