THEY DON'T KNOW Lyrics

Waiting for you, waiting for

You

Yea, if i listened to my morning thoughts, then i would be departed

And i wouldn't be here to fulfill my every promise

If i listened to anxiety, i never coulda fought it

If i listened to my envy then friends would be the target

But i kept it at that mirror

Shattered glass cuz i felt fragile and inferior, in fear of

Never being embraced by the culture i was bred by

Learned by turning pencils into bullets, let the led fly

The demons speak to you, they hopping between bodies

People say you can't, really puppeteered, i push 'em off me

If you squint your eyes when they turn around

You'll see a creature creeping on their spine, infesting in their mind

Before they hop on to the next and they grab 'em by they necks

Morphing dreamers into pests, obsessed with possessing these checks

There's so much that i regret, but there's nothing that i wanted that i didn't do

I make all the shit that you can't mimic dude

I'm unafraid to make mistakes

I done built towers knowing they would break

Just to see the height that i could make

You may see that as a waste of time

Infectious parasites will convince you that everything is based in dimes

But i seen and felt that global love

Around the world they offer me their hands, hold me up

Blood that gave me love told me that i am the chosen one

And i believed them, so i'm traveling where fucking no one does

Anchoring the boat, while wishing to destroy it

Not knowing that the fisherman is on his final voyage

Force to forfeit my fortress for the sake of fortune

Infested with fabrics and homies still offer me portions

Always try to give it back, they just point back at that map

Tell me keep on going till my fucking systems outta wack

So i'm raising on the mast

And my starboard is star bound, no anchor on my wing now

This crows nest, i sing loud

I'm not past that, the flag remains at half mast

Stash raps in my backpack, next to giraffes that they stabbed at

Soon this moment will only be living as a flashback

Your smile is a ghost looping around me like a laugh track

And i started with a dream and the ignorance to chase it

Needing me naivety to see the gleam i made it

They say that im rapping like my life depending on it

That's because it does, im not knowing how to end the sonnet

They don't know

If i don't know where i am meant to go

They don't know

They don't know what i have done to grow

They don't know

Sacrificed everything

They don't know

But never had to lose a thing

They don't know

They don't know

They don't know

They don't know

Sometimes it feels like i spent a lifetime hiding between those thresholds

Who can say that we can't have forever?

We can't last together?

They don't know who we are

Were like stars in the sky

We will shine for better

They will know forever

What our light looks like

Lately i been feeling like i been inside a purgatory

Between salvation and the life that came before me

Ten years, thinking you'd at the summit right?

Haunted by the cost of thoughts that keep you up at night

The ship is sinking, and the hull is pierced from bullets

I seen the soul escape your eyes, the moment you pull it

But gravity can't alter a flying bullet's sonic speed

So when that trigger is squeezed, only victim gon be me

I fought for ages, i mutilated faces

This is my latest one, but there's no hope to save it

Nothing changes, im still the coward in the tower right

And, what did i learn? that very same power might

Grace me wings, but it laced me in a straight jacket

Warning shots grazed me, just searching for a safe passage

Eternally falling with smiles, just pretend i'm flying

Even with these wings i can't escape event horizon

As my fingers spider through that wreckage

Lost my breath, i found there's nothing left of your presence

I'll keep looking, just a whiff of your fragrance

Any debt is better than attempting to replace it

I'm still running from the sun, a battle that is never won

I'm still chasing nothing, potential that'll never come

Lost my drive, i don't care for plays and numbers

Pouring myself into molds that are shaped by others

I been anxious, asking how to tell all those i love

I been stuck inside a rut for more than just a couple months

In the end, what kinda man will i become?

I done asked that question till the answer became none

Immolate the breath that's in my lungs, till im running out

If they deprive me of my story, i got nothing now

When the verse ends, my life will follow suit

Never let the ink dry, refuse to swallow truth

Listen

Ooo, i don't know

I don't know how to go

Across the bridge

Door's open, but it is opaque

I can see it both ways (i don't know)

Beaten and battered, i can't even tell where all my injury at

But how could i be tired while i'm running victory laps

I relapsed and escaped the cages that misery traps

They placing bets on my future well i brought history back

Standing at his turntables, flash is speaking through me

Ain't mean to kill your favorite rapper but i got a duty

Revitalize the game without a single cheat code

We made "green leaf trilogy" but what the fuck do we know?

I awoke one man, yet i live separate lives in frail attempts to be better

Never together

Running from the sun, i sit persevered in a doorway

As if tethered between thresholds forever

And ever

Before my lungs give out

Tell me i did everything that i could do for you

(Before my lungs give out)

Before my lungs give out

Tell me i made everything that i wanted to

Promise me that i am better than this

Promise me that i can settle these sins

Because i have been fighting the path for too long

The current is strong, and i hope i ain't wrong

When swimming against it or letting it pull me

I've let myself go, and now no one can hold me

I been in the prison, with indecision

Everyone's whole but between me's division

Why do i always feel guilty when happy

Carving my smiles, im scared they'll attack me

Advice that i've taken has taken me nowhere

My thoughts on a sleeve of a shirt that i don't wear

Inside the frame of the door is so frightening

But i been living here, now it's enticing

Neither there nor here, somewhere between

The thresholds that separate us are a screen

Before my lungs give out

Tell me i did everything that i could do for you

Before my lungs give out

Tell me i did everything that i could do for you

Promise me that i did enough for you

Before my lungs give out

Promise me that i'm ok to leave you all here

Before my lungs give out

Before my lungs give out (before my lungs)

Promise me that i'm ok to leave you all here (before my lungs)

Before my lungs give out

Before my lungs give out

Before my lungs give out

Before my lungs give out

Before my lungs give-