Ruins Lyrics

I promise you life, I promise you peace in your soul

I promise you sight, I promise you all you desire

As long as you don't retire I'm giving you all you need

Just promise it's not satire

This is everything to me, the life a nigga chose

I'm giving you parts of me, my arteries and my soul

For promises that I've kept and promises that I owe

I'm making due on my promises, promises that I know

These are ruins

I wish I knew this before

They say that chasing your dreams is something you can't restore

I'm happy I never quit, but what this quote means

Is even a minor break is something you can't afford

Now is it worth the galore, and is it worth all the time

We chasing nothing but images, we building in our minds

But I think that it's fine, cause even the greatest minds of our generation

Were ridiculed and labeled at times

So, who you gon' be when it's said and done

Are you gonna go after your dreams, craft it and try to master

Everything that you're after, or does it even matter

You're giving your heart to everything, everything that you're after

For a glimpse of hope, so your family don't have to struggle

Sacrificing yourself so your family has a rebuttal

In this game of life, but the irony still remains

You're sacrificing yourself for the things you want to attain

These are ruins

I promise you life, I promise you peace in your soul

I promise you sight, I promise you all you desire

As long as you don't retire I'm giving you all you need

Just promise it's not satire

This is everything to me, the life a nigga chose

I'm giving you parts of me, my arteries and my soul

For promises that I've kept and promises that I owe

I'm making due on my promises, promises that I know

These are ruins

Consequential minds

As this generation is in a predominant phase of change

I wish you the best, not to say I'm exempted

But I come from the 90's with values that's been accepted

Respected as truth, maneuvering through the differences

Keeping my vision clear and focusing on the distances, yeah

Observing the subtle changes, seeing ripple effects

affect the distant ranges

I hope that message was clear

Doing my best as I speak from the heart

I'm hoping you hear

Look, I'm hoping you hear the changes in sounds

How I play with the nouns

Polishing all my verses and easing into a sound

For the thing I call love

Helping me with the feeling

And understanding the sacrifices made was for us

So I'm paving it forward

I'm hoping you see the liberty

Patiently building skills, developing your abilities

Ruins

I promise you life, I promise you peace in your soul

I promise you sight, I promise you all you desire

As long as you don't retire I'm giving you all you need

Just promise it's not satire

This is everything to me, the life a nigga chose

I'm giving you parts of me, my arteries and my soul

For promises that I've kept and promises that I owe

I'm making due on my promises, promises that I know

These are ruins