[Pre-Hook]
You used to hold me
Told me that I was the best
Anything in this world I want, I could possess
All that made me want all that I could get
In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets
[Verse 1]
Life is good, n***a
Life is bad, n***a
In contrast to the past, ain't quite a sad n***a
Joy & Pain to a Handful of Dust
Standing from dawn til dusk
With a handful of trust
Hard to dismiss the simplicity of ignorant bliss
Confiscated like some stick up kids
What it is?
Voice raspy when he lifts up his
Unofficial spokesperson for all of my folks nursing they wounds
From the womb to a spoonful of knowledge
Deposit the collagen in your lips
Your lips [serves as eclipse?]
My religion exists inside of my mind
Diving sublime
Space still arriving on time
Like a spaceship
College Dropout ready to hop out
Without a smashed jaw
Still rapping like it's my Last Call
Tryna live it like it's good, 'til the last drop
A gla** of Scotch
Leave a footprint like I'm Sasquatch
sh** is real
Ain't no memory lapse
If I stick to the facts, I can never relax
'Till it's 30 racks a show and I blow, then reach my max
My homie's having a son
Little boy named Jax
Damn near impossible not to believe in this world
That you can make it
And still bring a seed in this world
So we gon' make it
And by extension, it's deeper than friendship
I never mentioned but sh**, it makes sense, don't it?
[Hook]
You used to hold me
Told me that I was the best
Anything in this world I want, I could possess
All that made me want all that I could get
In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets
(When you would hold me, I remember you told me
That I could be a-ny-thing)
[Verse 2]
Yo, Yo
Aw, f** it
I'm in the corner sitting with my wash bucket
Knuck If You Buck
Getting bloody, gotta call something
I ain't ducking from bra** knuckles
{?] all tuck it
Climbing a mountain even if God struck it with lightning
Just to ruin my outlet
Wardrobe changed to an aluminum outfit
Electrocute me cause I ain't through with my route yet
Am I confusing what being human's about?
No doubt, if I'm a human, then I got a brain
What you want me to do with it?
Using my tools is intuitive
How can I say that?
Nature so vast
Walking in this b**h and never shape my own path
Good with the bad
Mad basic math
I be sipping my wine, plucking my grapes of wrath
You be saying all hardships evil
But you gotta question when does a hardship leave you
Nah mean?
[Hook]
Check the prognosis
Like the seven seas and the five oceans
My thoughts flow, never denied motion
[?] downpour, round 4
Brain storming like a plane swarming
Imagination, I found war
Gotta fight for your dreams
Why would I clown for?
Cashmere compared to last year when I was sound poor
Illmatic fabric, I feel mad erratic
I'm tryna mature, gathering my thrills while I'm at it, uh
[Hook]
[Outro]
I been working this grave shift
Damn, I ain't really made sh**
But I'ma buy me a spaceship
And fly, I ain't bout to die here