These shoes are getting too heavy to run miles in

These depths are getting too deep to dive in

These tears are the reason the surface keeps risingMy breath is getting shorter, the closer the horizon

God knows how much longer can I keep watering this tree

With no signs of yield, yet I′m still full of belief

Is it hope or am I just naive?

Would I trade it all just for a pinch of sleep?

Just woke up into another pipe dream

And like steam I just want to rise and feel the sunbeams

But it might seem like I have to fake being real before I'm streamed

Make the nigga in the mirror not like me

And strike deals with devil just so I can blow up on these mine fields

I just wanna do the right thing

And paint these pictures like I′m Spike Lee

And if solitude keeps company

Then who else do I believe in, but me?

I trusted my pen

Didn't write like it

I been myself

Didn't feel like it

I saw my potential

Didn′t act like it

I knew my roots

Didn′t grow like it, I-

Still gotta carry these hereditary bags

One full of melanin, the other hungry for cash

Then another one full of letters for people who don't understand

That′s bones to pick, a diet

My clock don't allow me to get tired despite the distance and the weight

My clock don′t allow me to be late

Steep hills, still gotta get mine

That is a different definition of black time

How did we invent calendars but now we lack time?

Why do we waste time?

Why do we waste time?

Why do we waste time?

Spent hours trynna figure out what a real nigga is

Is it chains and whips or getting chained and whipped?

The love ain't coming from the outside, gotta search within

Hunger put a lot the plate so, go ahead dig in

We already could have crashed their business

But we′re too busy writing their promises on our wish list

The messengers now sit at the top of a hit list

How much time do you get in the spotlight, before getting dismissed?

And if they told you that love ain't worth it

Then would you listen?

If everybody heartless then how do we beat the system?

If they kept begging for second chances then would you give them?

Would you change yourself if they told you to be different?

Uh, don't make me feel guilty ′cuz I don′t play by the stereotypes

My ancestors never shot cane- still they been earning stripes

From battle scars to tribal marks, make another sacrifice

Stop showing them the open palms, you know we gotta live it right

In this life you gotta fight

Hungry, so I gotta bite

Bones to pick, I gotta write

Kept me up a lotta nights

Feeling like a dynamite

Don't let the spirit die tonight

Make the future shining bright

Don′t let the spirit die tonight

Rrrah!

Funny how the lowest moments

Bring you closer to the higher power

I'm on a full blackout, still this ain′t my darkest hour

Nah, still this ain't my darkest hour

Can you find strength at your weakest?

I been burning bridges ′cuz I was out here freezing

Escaping all these leaches and I'm growing tired of seeing the history repeat

In-side of them, inside of me

And If we blind then who is leading?

But that's a line you got tired of hearing

Another cycle completed

Are you feeling what I′m feeling?

Are you feeling what I′m feeling, tsk

I said, do you get the meaning?

Didn't have to FaceTime

Just to answer God′s calling

I'm balling different

And I barely touched Spalding

I see what it is

And I see what it ain′t

I know that these tears

Won't put fuel in the tank

Tried to throw shade

We still bloom in the rain

Mood up and down

Still see another day, ahh