Grateful Dust Lyrics

Everyone in the world has gone to bed one night or another with fear

Or pain or loss

Or disappointment

And yet each of us has awaken, arisen

Somehow made our ablutions

Seen other human beings

And said, Morning, how are you?

Fine thanks, and you?

It's amazing

Wherever that abides in the human being

There is the nobleness of the human spirit

Despite it all

Maya Angelou

Chess piece movin' on its own accord

No one check on you in this lonely world

Heart get knocked down, shown no remorse

You gotta get that bishop if you know your worth

Speak your truth until your throat is horse

You ain't no rook once you took the floor

Wanna be a king but they call you pawn

Well next year you're gonna own the board

So one step at a time cuz that's all you can do

Back to square one with all you been through

No can do, the only path is forward

On the other side's where you transform, or so they say

You don't need a queen to beat the game

If you get her back, you'll just see she changed

All you got is you and that's not a lot

So what's your survival plot, as a

Grain of sand movin' through the sands of time

Try'na put to good use the chance to ride

The amber waves ampersand the Atlantic tide

God damn, we be damn to die

Turned to dust as a pantomime

Must express your mind

Independent of whether they understand the rhyme or reason

Carve a mark regardless and sand it fine

Even if it means goin' against the grain

And they say that you vandalizin'

Turn away, strap your sandles tight

You ain't here forever

Better ban the Sandman from eyes

Open 'em wide to expand horizons

God lookin' wry while you walk the maze

Try'na break bread in a box of rain

You don't need a sand dollar, but the thought's ingrained

If we grateful dead, then why not today

We're alive

Cherish the ride

Till I die

All my homies are humble

Rose from the rubble your soul crumbles into

When you thinking nobody love you

I love you for who you really are, beautifully scarred

I see the hope in the struggle

Noses too stuffed to smell roses, suppose I'm still owned by the hustle

Slowin' my stride feel almost like I'm dying

And sleep feel like askin' the reaper to cuddle

Woke up in an uncontrollable cold puddle of sweat

And realized that I been all alone all along

No one who can promise you what god'll do

Here today, gone tomorrow, we live in a space and time borrowed

Chronic crumbled on the coffee table

Notebook pages faded but nothing is muddled, no fables inside

They say "facade" but I say I'm creating my life one day at a

Why do you play with your time as if it doesn't matter

While dashin' to make up your mind what to do

They say pick for the cash or your wishes'll shatter

Don't differ from patterns

They play us for fucking fools

What's a rule to a king, though? Can't tell me nothin

I show don't tell, so just watch if you wanna know

What it look like to be someone

I'm my momma's sun and I rise

We're alive

Cherish the ride

Till I die

My moms got up at dawn every day since 1999

To watch sun rise right

Always been my rock and my life line

So who am I to deny 'em that? I admire and

Aspire to pay homage to the way that they raised Robin

But if I go to college to get the grades that they wanted

I ain't bein' honest, and they the ones who gave me a conscience

I have to prove that I can rap my route to success

But the map is a mess, and atlas, too true

So I can't really call it

I'd rather focus on the gratitude I have for you and

Keep at it until the green paddin' us like botanical roofs

Planted roots but this planet is huge

And my plan is to do it big, so I have to get movin'

I grow like ivy, though: no matter my magnitude I keep ties to home

If I should go 180, know one day you'll see the cipher

Full circle again- return to my kin

Each one of us comprise the whole earth in my chest

Though I rise alone