Do You ft. Nelia Lyrics

I spend, I spend all my, I spend all my time

Tryna please these niggas, you can't appease these niggas

I spend, I spend all my, I spend all my time

Tryna please these niggas, you can't appease these niggas

From birth we're taught to assimilate

Walk a tightrope, gotta get it straight

What a nigga is, what a nigga ain't, jokes

What's normal anyway, who are you anyway?

That's your representative

Only a projection, who are you protecting, do you

Dear John, letter hear, it's addressed to you

No idea more important than yours

Don't let fear throw you off of the course

We spin blocks tryna earn acceptance

To satisfy everyone except us

Time stands still, we just learn perspective

When your soul starts singing, man, that thing infectious look

Fifty feet, back up, fifty feet back, back up

Sorry it's closing time, sorry it's closing time

Fifty feet, back up, fifty feet back, back up

Sorry it's closing time, sorry it's closing time

I spend, I spend all my, I spend all my time

Tryna please these niggas, you can't appease these niggas

I spend, I spend all my, I spend all my time

Tryna please these niggas, you can't appease these niggas

Inspiration, it comes in many forms

I tend to turn to music, but

Lately I'm having trouble finding any in any of yours

Leave it up to me and you gon' drop the ball, won't you

Three hundred bars of ego and braggadocio

Knowing I'm my sharpest when pulling from these emotions

Still I go and write about this picture-perfect villa that's overlooking the ocean

Shame on me, knowing this time next week, c'est la vie

Going right back to Queens, right back to work

Home office set up, going right back to Teams

10am call, code switch and share screens

15 minute break, group chat and share memes

Nothing too glamorous, but look at where social media landed us

Hand us these devices, the prices are astronomical

Trade a little piece of your soul for each of these cameras

The smiles are mechanical

Imagine if struggle was Instagrammable

Would you post your reality

Think how therapeutic that'd be, can it be?

Is that just the optimistic man in me, the W's, the L's

Successes, fails, would you share them all emphatically

Any feat in spite of the size of it is impressive

Any hardship you experience there's a lesson

Film a few shots on a yacht to make an impression

Champagne popping, but honesty's more refreshing, ain't it?

And reflection is key, ask yourself, do I love the reflection of me

If not, that's cool, let's talk things through

Cause we've been making it look good effortlessly for too long

Damaged hand buttoning shirts with 5 fingers

Bet you couldn't walk a day in my shoes too toilsome

Was 12 before I solely laced my shoes

Feel this, think why don't God just take me to the sky?

Or should I cope with it, be thankful I'm alive

Do you think you could live this way?

Where it's on your mind all the time, do I wanna live today

Do you think you could live this way?

Where you never felt you fit in with the kids that play

Do you think you could live this way?

Physical six by nine, cell barred, mentally scarred

Do you think you could live this way?

Yo, it's hard when you born with your arm deformed

16, wouldn't think it me flowing like this

You can tell the handicap ain't slowing the shit