Strokes ft. Archie Sundance Lyrics

I dreamed about

Just rockin' the stage

Using other people's words

Now it seems

Fait accompli

Has taken over my nerves

And that was it

Writin' song after song

I'm accomplishin'

To create my own bangers

My own hits

Tryna prove like my poetry

I can spit

Uhh, time to occupy

That space 'tween ya ears been compromised

Now I wouldn't lie

I would just disguise

My truth in order for you not to despise

My rise

Cause we all know Chaos can hypnotize

Long as the payoff can crystallize

I'll invoke the pathos to aggrandize

My rise in time they'll be playin' me

While groups rise and die blamin' e

Goes to show they weren't meant to be

I cut myself down from the tree

Then stepped over bodies of broken dreams

Uhh, but it always seems

I'm still another cog in the damn machine

That's damaging

To my self-esteem

I guess I should stop nothin' to achieve

Here

Hey

Don't leave yet

I'm still here

I promise I'll make what you wanna hear

This music thing I'm diving deep into

So for your faith, here's what I'm gona do

I will not stop my clock

When the glock comes to knock

I will block as it cocks

But the shock spills Medoc

On my face and my socks

Cause you thought you a hawk

More a vulture no squawk

I didn't mean to go ornithological

Just sayin' that your myth's comical

It's easy to rhyme, quite logical

Did you know I'm a cosmological

Being

I see you agreeing

Keep noddin' ya head to the scripts that's beatin'

Against ya ears as ya start to bleed

That ignorance out, so here's a treat

Whether the planets align

Or the stars compete

In a binary system, well visually speaking

My point is these

Astronomical feats

Are birthed from the essence that created me

See

But I ain't done

Rhymes bouncin' off my tongue shootin' faster than guns

Hit ya with a force of 100 trillion suns

What I see 11 oh ways I've won

I begun to blow ya mind

But just last week I had a parking fine

I tried to pay in lent and tip with rhymes

But they said they can't exchange at this time

Was my card denied

I learned to thrive

Playin' Russian Roulette with plastic dimes

Got higher stakes than Stabscotch with knives

If I'm on a date and the bill is mine

Or else I'll leave that girl behind

Ain't got no shame s'how I survive

I'll change my name then reassign

To any location that springs to mind

My exile brought me a sense of clarity

I found my art will always be there for me

The pen's my friend and gives me free therapy

The end results will be New World currency

Don't leave yet

Don't leave yet

I'm still here

I'm still here

I promise I'm makin' what you need to hear

Need to hear

This singin' thing won't make it habit

I just want to see if I could make it happen

Make it happen

If I could make it happen

Make it happen