(Verse 1)
Time travels, limelight unravels the game like a Scrabble session
Glad I'm a believer, yo
I do this thing for life - on wax or in my own progression
Quote without expression, “I survive the either and the either”
Play the quarterback and pa** to the receivers
Next development, the settling of superficialities
No need to question what the future holds for me and mine, ‘cause
In time I'll find the fruit of faith - that's my reality, so
When the sun and stars collapse, perhaps they will believe
What in the past they simply couldn't put in focus
Packing the truth up in the booth beyond the soundwaves
Slaves laugh now, but at that time they'll want to quote us, but then
I'll pop on Junior singing “Too Late, Baby, Bye Bye”
Why try acknowledging the facts formerly mentioned, it's
Straight to detention while I follow my predestiny, giving the best in me
Hope it's within your comprehension, so just
(Hook)
Stop, sit, think, take a second to
Consider all the things you are connected to
(Checking me?) I'm checking you and simply try to see
What is it keeping you living this final fantasy
Your j**els (popularity)? Your bank (dollar bill, y'all)?
Your friends (here today and gone today, so get your fill, y'all)?
I want each and every woman and man to see
Beyond this thing we call “life” - the final fantasy
(Verse 2)
Hypocrisy's the policy when brother's holler, “see me rhyme
Yo give me time, while I drop a dime up in the cypher...”
But they will find that in due time the crowd won't tolerate no rhymes
That cannot climb without a ladder, kid, you're not MacGuyver
The ups and downs, the back and forth is like a see-saw
If you see what I saw, you'd know this wasn't easy
Cats see the cake before they think about ingredients
But that mentality's played like “nizzle” and “forsheezy”
Closing your eyes, hoping to make your daily wages
These pages of dull monotony are so tyrannosaurus
But look at how the vast majority is taking us
Making us look like fossils of the ones that came before us (that ain't right)
We're living in this age of the microwave, like
“Do it for me and do it now” is the perception
But slow and steady wins the race, So Imma keep my pace
And spray this message as my mace against deception, so just
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(Verse 3)
It's so amazing, watching people making their way in the world today
It's taking everything they got
Trapped and locked in this paradox of what they feel
But what's real when the more ice you get you're hot?
The definition of understanding is no longer what you know
But what your eyes are perceiving
Personal defenses laced with pretense and
Not paralleling what a brother believes in
Those who test the limitations of the ma**es supercede the fascists
And soon become the martyrs
Those who fall are the ones who heed the protocol
And never develop into higher top charters
But even those as the fallen ones are chosen
And understand the head ones will soon become the tail
Because they bow to the here and now, forsaking the vow of the veil
Forever's the full scale, my man, so just...
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