Don't Shoot the Messenger ft. GETTING CLOSER Lyrics

I know we gotta grow

I know the lessons hurt

So when I'm down I know

Don't shoot the messenger

I'm only here for however many years

Then my name gon' disappear

But the lesson persevere

And if I couldn't talk to you for many moons I blame my heart

Sometimes absence what you need to get it beating from the start

I bit my tongue and didn't fix a thing, but held the hammer tightly

I probably looked 100 but I thought about it nightly

It's a feeling

And finally I can rap about those

I pause the slapstick rap to make a tap out my nose

We all cry, you can Fergie, you can Frank, or you can Flowzus

Only difference how you handle it when someone taking notice

I been froze up

Tryna find the key like I'm looking for my rosebud

Staring at my feet like its yoga with the toe touch

I might take a week, hell I might just take a whole bunch

Calibrate my speech, so you know I feel it so much

Tuning up delivery outside of every line

How I deal with injury if none of them are mine?

I'm lookin at a hard time, sayin go through

I'm holding up a crosshair, sayin don't shoot

I know we gotta grow

I know the lessons hurt

So when I'm down I know

Don't shoot the messenger

I'm only here for however many years

Then my name gon' disappear

But the lesson persevere

I know we gotta grow

I know the lessons hurt

So when I'm down I know

Don't shoot the messenger

I'm only here for however many years

Then my name gon' disappear

But the lesson persevere

Don't shoot

Tell the truth

You know I been doing fine without you

Say you miss us, me too

But you're so bad for me and who knew?

And I can't take it, I can't make it

And you treat me blunt, baby face it

Treat me like some liquor baby, chase it

Getting fucked up off of you and now I'm floating through the matrix

Face it, I got Neo in my spaceship

Have you ever been to Mars?

I can take you to my station

I'm the one in charge, cause your new man basic

Put the gear in park 'cause I'm way too faded

Ay, don't shoot me down

JFK with the windows down

Jackie bleeding blood on the ground

Ay hate what I say don't shoot me down

I know we gotta grow

I know the lessons hurt

So when I'm down I know

Don't shoot the messenger

I'm only here for however many years

Then my name gon' disappear

But the lesson persevere

I know we gotta grow

I know the lessons hurt

So when I'm down I know

Don't shoot the messenger

I'm only here for however many years

Then my name gon' disappear

But the lesson persevere