As It Was Written... Lyrics

You thought you knew who I was

Nah

As it was written, I will be reborn again

As it was written, I will know truth or death

As it was written, I will kill myself again

As it was written, I will fall in love again

As it was written, I will see my soul and then

As it was written, I will choose to stay

Stay in place

Learn how to be myself again

As it was written, I will give myself the plan

As it was written, I will be lost again

As it was written, I will learn perspective yeah

As it was written, I will be

Born again and again and again

I will be reborn as NTU

And really, I still got problems too

The change was fucking cruel

I pray you do it better

Never misused the gift of you

Owethu

Almost lost his soul to all these demons

It's true

The way they had him on the ropes, he must have FoRgOt his dues

In truth, he knew what it do

He would live eternal for every day and every night

Maybe even more

Teaching all the dons the best way to grow is to kill the old you

As it was written, I'ma change

I don't need a Scotty Pimpin'

Got '23 on my back

Yeah, you know I'll never stop till then

I'ma keep on dropping

Niggas wanna talk like they know what I'm poppin'

Niggas wanna be like me

Forget about my problems

I was not stock then

But since you niggas wanna know, I am custom built

The one and only NTU!

Prophesied to liberate mortal minds

The risk is all time, my reward, a wise I

I pray you never lie

Okay, you wanna die

I hope you climb high

Above the pain in your heart, soul, and mind

I don't ever wanna let you down

I just wanna see you fly

Fly so high

Painting the sky and doing all that you like

Once you do what you wanna do

Everyone gon' try and take it all away from you

Silly

They just taking it away from old you

Owethu

Don't you wanna play and be a new NTU

Get it

Ubuntu, umuntu

The same thing, dude

Those guys never learn what it really mean

The music is really me, changed my human being

I pray you finally see I always been the one and only NTU

So I ask that we take a moment of silence on this Record

To appreciate the life of a young boy

I think his name was Owethu

Huh, niggas wanna talk funny

Shout out to the bro

He lived a life of sacrifice and peace

Around vultures and serpents and indeed

The cost wasn't his entire being

But enough that you couldn't see

I became me

If you ain't fuck with that

I got one thing you gotta understand from me

You ready?

Fuck you

Fuck you

Fuck you

Fuck you

And you

Fuck you

And you

And fuck you

Fuck you too

Fuck everybody who ain't NTU

You ain't gotta wait too long

You ain't gotta look to far

You ain't gotta work too hard

I'll be right there(Right there)

Next to you(ooooooo)

I'll be right there(Right there)

Next to you(ooooooo)

In your dreams (Dream, Dream, Dreams)

In your dreams (Dream, Dream, Dreams)

You ain't gotta wait too long

NTU is on the way, hold on

You ain't really that far gone

Just one of them bygones

Turned python

Who got the nikes on

Boy you full of charm so just forget about the harm

I know you got all these qualms

Aimed at these so called dons

But even dons got moms

I pray you pull it all on God

But before you burn it all

Why not?

Everybody outside ain't on our side

You can do anything you want

It's all in the mind

It's your damn time

When I arrive

I pray

You never eVeR EVER

Disguise

How you feel inside

Not with me nigga

You gon' smile with glee nigga

Shout out to the realest one

I said nigga don't lie!

You ain't gotta wait too long

You ain't gotta look too far

You ain't gotta work too hard

I'll be right there(Right there)

Next to you(ooooooo)

I'll be right there(Right there)

Next to you(ooooooo)

In your dreams (Dream, Dream, Dreams)

In your dreams (Dream, Dream, Dreams)

NTU

You have completely shed your old skin

Left behind the tragedies of yesterday

In seek of the glimmer of a new dawn

It seems the light you were chasing was always INSIDE

Now free

You must never forget

That to stay free the cycles of old must be broken

In order to make way for peace within…

Even though your surroundings

May try to undo the metamorphosis you've gone Through

Stay true

Never let them get to you

Even if they ends up being you

To anyone following the young man's journey

Remember

Your perspective is only half the story

He is not you

But in the case that you do confuse the two

Don't worry NTU made time for you