Down Lyrics

Down on my knees, down on my knees, down on my knees, down on my knees

I put my life on hold, trying to make it stop, catch my breath, trying to beat the clock

But the ticking keeps dripping on down, sand in a glass bottle

How you feeling now? It's all about to change

A caterpillar in a cocoon, a wolf and the moon, the peace post typhoon

A whirlwind of destruction, breeds rebirth

If she still functions, God bless this earth

I've been trying to find my happy place, giving chase to things that won't replace

What I lost; my mind, it's fine, I tell myself all the time

We gotta slow it down, call off the hounds

But we still have yet to leave this town, so fuck those hounds

Couldn't do jack, let alone find the track to lead me out of this trap

Still stuck on the boom bap of yesteryear

Couldn't grow with the music, couldn't face those fears

But I'm out of school, a grown ass man

Something your favorite rapper wouldn't understand

I'm addicted to the stress, can't get it off my chest

The words won't escape my throat, despite my will for change and hope for tomorrow

I keep an optimist playbook, with a pessimist outlook

I don't always realize who I am to you

It's not an excuse, just the truth

Sometimes I forget my roots, so I keep searching for a place to plant my boot

Firmly, in the concrete

Yeah, alright

Now I make my living using words, but right now those words escape me

I'm shakey, flaky, unreliable

Can't make promises, cause I refuse to break them

When the chance shows their face, I turn to chase -

Whatever I don't have, and it's killing me

With two packs a day and stress that can fill a semi-truck

My problem is, (aww fuck)

There's no between

The seen and unseen, real and fictional

The peaceful manifesto hides anger between the lines

I'm not fine, I'm not okay, I am

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Cause it's all the same, I ain't playing

I spit game

And rearrange the whole frame, it's insane

How I pinpoint the pinprick, and get in quick

Like I came to seal the deal, but on the real, I'm only here to make ya feel

And rip apart what you hold at heart

It's a cold start, but I'm old smart, like common sense

You can call me experienced, leave you delirious or furious

Depending on your level of mediocrity, I'm Socrates

The first civilized primate in the western metropolis zoo

You get this? I'm leaving you clues, and it has nothing to do with the hue of the skin

Let em in, let em in

Keep us all out, God or Darwin can decide who's sinking

But they all get haircuts, and a song to be singing

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

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Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Oh, yeah

Oh, woah

Down on my knees

Down on my knees

Down on my knees