| The hands go up, but they always come down
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| That’s the sad truth when you’re living for the crowd
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| The show’s been over, but you still wanna bow
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| You really should hang it up but you’re just too proud
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| The beat’s too low, and the vocal’s too loud
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| Even in the booth you’ve been havin' little doubts
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| You put your headphones on and drink 'till you pass out
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| Praying for a drought help you shake your dark cloud
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| I’ve not even been around the block
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| Not even once but I look out the door
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| The corner’s right there, the coast is clear
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| My eyes are open but I’m hating the chore
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| No reason to stop now there’s nothing but pop clowns
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| So put your money down put your neck on the table
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| You feeling so hot now, you’re calling the shots now
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| Switch things up, you gotta shake that label
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| Call it what you want, call it what you gotta
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| It’s a struggle in the booth to make the truth sound hotter
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| Make you feel proper make you feel just right
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| And it’s some insecurities just to help you sleep at night
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| So fall back if you don’t feel me. |
| I don’t even feel me!
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| Sometimes I think that I do this shit to try and heal me
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| Maybe be appealing maybe grow a fan base
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| But honestly I only make this music for my own sake
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| You want my own take? |
| Here’s my two cents
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| I don’t need your recognition just a record with depth
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| An intense one that just lets me just vent
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| One that knows when I’m happy or I wanna get bent
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| And guess what homeboy? |
| that’s all I ever need
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| Introspection over beats and a party for the fiend
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| A city full of a songs and a mic for me to speak into
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| If music speaks to you please take heed:
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| Think about it, write it down, find someone you can teach it to
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| I’m not preachin' dude, I’m just trying to cleanse
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| A lyrical colonic, shake the demons in my head
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| Sometimes you’ve gotta purge yourself to make it out of bed
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| The hands go up, but they always come down
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| That’s the sad truth when you’re living for the crowd
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| The show’s been over, but you still wanna bow
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| You really should hang it up but you’re just too proud
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| The beat’s too low, and the vocal’s too loud
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| Even in the booth you’ve been havin' little doubts
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| You put headphones on and drink 'till you pass out
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| Praying for a drought help you shake your dark cloud
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| Inspiration don’t come cheap these days
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| So I go the opposite direction tryin' to keep this faith
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| No religion but hip hop has given the opportunity
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| To put a hundred percent into something that is true to me
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| And Usually my muses show up so I start sippin'
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| Allow me to gas myself so I stop trippin
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| And overthinking and analyzing everything I do
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| So I can find out what life looks easier for you
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| How the hell did I develop all of this social anxiety
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| And fuck a zoloft! |
| I roll off and get high
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| With these bottles and beers, trying to forget those years
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| I don’t need a script doctor, but let’s just say cheers
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| And tip that, say sip sip sippin' on the jazzers
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| And when your people join you, then you know it’s going to be magic
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| But when you’re on a vision quest, they say that it’s a hazard
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| But trust me, I would never let it turn to something tragic
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| There’s been to many kids lost in my home town
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| Must be something in the water shed, 'cuz I know now
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| Suicidal teens ain’t born, they’re bred
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| So give them something to hope for instead of pullin' the thread
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| Unravellin' all of their dreams at the seams
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| I believe in doing for self, but it’s nice having a team
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| That’s why I self medicate just to help meditate
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| Introspection is arrestin' when you can’t catch a break
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| The hands go up, but they always come down
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| That’s the sad truth when you’re living for the crowd
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| The show’s been over, but you still wanna bow
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| You really should hang it up but you’re just too proud
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| The beat’s too low, and the vocal’s too loud
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| Even in the booth you’ve been havin' little doubts
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| You put headphones on and drink 'till you pass out
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| Praying for a drought help you shake your dark cloud
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| The 16s we rip 'em, the pen’s scribbles explicit
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| Mic booth is a closet until the studio’s finished
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| Gaurenteed that when we get legit I’m going to miss it
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| But until then we circle the rag and stay on the mission
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| A hotbed of ideas, our pens are best friends
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| I’ve driven through carpal tunnel, that’s hell but the road ends
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| We’ve blazing our own path, we work as our own staff
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| No paychecks get cut, but fuck we’ll get past
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| I stay sipping the bourbon and even though it’s a weakness
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| I need it to find the freedom to make real what I keep dreamin
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| I mean it, I promise I can surely keep my seams sewn up
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| As long as I only have to pretend to be a grown up
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| These headphones are worn, the paint’s starting to fade
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| High’s starting to clip, lows starting to wane
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| But no need to worry, the musics gonna get made
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| And even when we pass out, wake up to a new day like
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| bwwwooaaaahhh… |