[Intro]
The only currency we need is time
Probably the reason why we carve these lines
In hopes they leave behind a legacy
Remembering our moments that let us live on through memory
[Verse 1: J.]
The race began when woman and man embraced land
With hand in hand, each foot rose and dropped clans
Comprised of families, pieces of each community
Soon to be civilized, now known as humanity
But can it be that a commodity makes us act savagely?
And forgetting the future exists is why we're losing "we"?
Some say times of the essence
Some say times are getting darker
Could swear the ticks and the tocks are talking a bit faster
For every minute that's pa**ing there's an hour I'm after
And people act as the pastor preaching "It's the final chapter."
Seems everything that I knew tends to just fade away
But every dollar that's owned couldn't try to stop the change
My age group is focused on an second's Timeline
Yeah, You.Only.Live.Once, but you can never rewind
Heard it through the air in the form of wind chimes:
"I become my own k**er whenever I'm k**ing time."
See, this planet's a track and we're all stuck inside of a relay
The finish line ain't hard to find when you take a delay
So my foot's down, speeding through life, wishing the ride would cruise
I keep losing my time when there is no time to lose
[Verse 2: Fatal Tactics]
And when I look up to the sky, the Devil calls my name
God tells me the end's near. And we're to blame
All the corruption in governments cut our time in half
That's time my son's sons' kids will never have
Some people live by "Time is money."
But that ain't true
Time can't corrupt the people
Like money do
A green slip in God's name has gone in vein
And now he's punishing us, presenting a new game
The times are different now
I look around my old hood
The one I thought
Would never ever drown
Is now six feet deep, but like a industry
My old friends now resort to dealing in these streets
And all the struggle and pain don't hold a flame
To the dream I had where our people
Get a better name
So when I lay my head to wake to the next day
I pray I'll wake up to a better day and age
[Outro: J.]
The only currency we need is time...