truth. Lyrics

You may look at me and think I'm taking this a bit too extreme

Look, I'm just trying to be me

Enjoy life, have fun, and be free

It's sad this life ain't guaranteed

Mind over matter, but my mind's the matter

Thoughts are paint, they splatter, across the canvas

Chatter like the debates, they gather

Fight till late the cowards, on my face I'm sour

Silent till they break for lunch

I'm louder till they back from brunch

They tower, over power

Mind over matters that don't really matter

So the topic's clattered, staggered, and stacked

Until I'm done with laughter

Drowned in pain thereafter

Beefing brain like pinky

I'm insane, but swayed to claim okay

Despite the grave I've made for

Actors and their fans

I fan the flame of rhythm

Dash my pain in dainty hands

Then I baste it in my brain and break its stance

Wasting time, I wait and weigh these plans

When I place it in a pan, it'll make you prance

Braced with all my patience, plates demand

Greatness I can claim sits in these hands

But they tearing at the seams and you won't glance

Draped in all that pain, you'd rather dance

Smiles have turned to rain, but you won't ask nah

Bumping to that bass won't miss this chance

Still, we moving

I'm grinding harder than Harvard students

My heart it grooves to this funky tune that this bass producing

I'm more than prudent

Won't stoop as low as to never use it

This present tense requires sense

But in my future's music, glad I knew it

It's glad I know it

We know you flowing, but your English broken

It's hard to focus in a world of tokens

We come from stripes end up in stereotypes

Our minds are stolen

We either rap or dance or sing for them

They pay us tokens

So we can pay to ride a high that helps us all forget

That we in chains

The cost of change will lead us all to death

So we can pay to ride a high that helps us all forget

That we in chains

The cost of change will lead us all to death

A'ight bet, I'm set

Come in with that heat, the Word of Life that gives breath

We ain't fighting on our ones

See, it's my God that gives strength

Died upon the cross

Jesus freed us from debt

Don't fret

If we tryna fight this war, we fighting spirits, not men

We use the word of God to finish them

But we can't be pendulums

Swinging back and forth, we playing pretend

Forget the pretense

Pick the Lord and sleep, friend

Tryna fight these demons my way

Oh my way, my way but it's hard to be free

In this land that's tryna kill us always

Oh Yahweh, Yahweh, I just wanna be free