[00:12.57]Still working
[00:13.92]Still waking up looking for real purpose
[00:16.52]Still trying to figure out what it's gon' take
[00:18.80]Still trying to find connection with some real surface level types
[00:22.64]Back when I was young, I used to pedal bikes
[00:24.80]Now I'm riding cross country, doing several nights
[00:27.26]In and out the Sprinter van, pull up, get the levels right
[00:29.80]Get a bite to eat, do the show, and then we settle like
[00:32.46]What could be a better life?
[00:33.77]But I'm still staring at the ceiling in my bed at night
[00:36.45]Thinking 'bout what I don't got yet
[00:38.18]Why I'm not hot yet
[00:39.73]Why the last project was something that I thought would make me something that I'm not yet
[00:44.49]It's all a work in progress
[00:45.97]That's what they tell me and I respond with, "I guess"
[00:48.68]I been wanting to get something off my chest
[00:51.21]But it's not time yet
[00:52.56]It might never be time
[00:54.85]My kid won't get no screen time
[00:57.85]At least that's what I'd like to think
[00:59.39]'Cause my childhood was filled with tree climbs
[01:01.93]And Oatmeal Creme Pies and looking at the street signs
[01:05.78]I guess that he gon' be fine, or she will
[01:07.94]I just feel like it's hard to be thrilled in times like this
[01:10.90]When our hands can't keep still
[01:12.44]And if it's not Insta then it's emails
[01:15.97]There's beauty in the details
[01:17.69]So I'ma try my best to pay attention to 'em
[01:20.41]Spend your day with this and it can get you through it
[01:23.08]I ain't seen an institute since I ended schooling
[01:26.24]Used to hate it, now my dreams take place in it
[01:28.72]Sun shine through the blinds 'til I wake in it
[01:31.32]I just got done stretching like the eighth inning
[01:33.98]Now it's time to get something 'fore the day's finished
[01:36.10]
[01:46.82]I got
[01:48.73]Well wishes in my cellphone from my classmates that let themselves go
[01:52.38]Well aware that I'm well known
[01:54.30]Know we had a stretch of time between us that you felt close to me, but
[01:57.96]It's been a minute since
[01:59.82]Did I change or did they rob me of my innocence?
[02:01.61]Inner city kids I grew up with, we had some differences
[02:04.27]But inside gymnasiums, it's almost like they didn't exist
[02:08.35]Time's tickin', my mom's 50
[02:09.79]Told me that she been thinkin' 'bout spending time different
[02:12.52]It's more precious, what if I took the same method at 21 and adopted it?
[02:17.01]Sometimes I feel like I'm tripping for dipping out of town while my pops living still
[02:21.53]Palms itching, but this money is not Benadryl
[02:24.01]Ain't no pattern to the way I tend to feel
[02:26.62]It's all over the place
[02:27.98]I'ma lower the shades and sleep in
[02:30.71]I ran into a kid I grew up with
[02:32.74]He shook my hand and told me, "No one thought you'd do this shit"
[02:35.23]I can't relate, but see, I understand
[02:37.16]'Cause when they hear me now compared to back then it's like, "Who is this?"
[02:40.44]Don't know if I changed, but the music did
[02:43.46]In my old shit, I used to just admit things
[02:45.73]Now I sit around and wonder, "Is that something you admit?"
[02:48.45]'Cause when I hear it, all I do is cringe
[02:50.62]I guess I did change
[02:51.97]Two years in ATL
[02:53.77]Before I moved, I had never got drunk
[02:56.14]Now I'm getting tore up like an ACL
[02:58.86]Meeting people that my friends idolize
[03:01.40]That they only ever get a chance to see on they TL
[03:04.75]Artists that they playing through a JBL
[03:06.75]In somebody's basement, smoking, getting wasted
[03:09.36]Something in the air and I can taste it
[03:11.46]2018 I couldn't be on my own
[03:14.37]Every night I'd call a girl and fall asleep on the phone
[03:17.71]I guess it was how I coped with leaving from home
[03:20.00]Discipline, I gotta keep in control
[03:23.21]It gets more difficult to rap every day
[03:25.31]'Cause it's less and less things that feel like worth saying
[03:28.36]Nothing is for sure except life sure ends
[03:30.45]I tried to keep that in mind but it's not workin'