[00:24.38]Yesterday, forget it
[00:26.00]Tomorrow is nada
[00:27.48]The present is right here,
[00:28.95]through the breath, watch it
[00:30.54]Atheist Jesus piece, hanging on a cross
[00:33.19]We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs
[00:35.72]About how we got here,
[00:37.17]What it is, what it isn't, shit
[00:39.03]Fate vs. fate, scrimmaging with coincidence
[00:41.86]Leave out the market
[00:43.36]and hold up on the business end
[00:44.91]Focus on the genuine,
[00:46.33]and everything else,
[00:47.49]you can shed the skin
[00:48.77]I was a couple moves away from being dead
[00:51.89]In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red
[00:54.91]I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz
[00:57.23]Lost it all, sobered up and guess what?
[00:59.69]Now we meet again
[01:01.00]And now I'm back, finally just laughin'
[01:03.85]Expectations are resentments waiting to happen
[01:06.73]Studying the Dharma, Karma, Vipassana practice
[01:09.47]Bahá'u'lláh, Buddah,
[01:10.65]God to the mountaintop and I'm traveling
[01:12.67]Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters
[01:15.80]People, impermanence, lack of attachments
[01:19.15]It's space and time, a couple man-made distractions
[01:22.00]The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture
[01:25.31]Church, ha, this booth is my Vatican
[01:27.98]I don't control life, but I control how I react to it
[01:31.03]Student of the breath, break beats and balancing
[01:34.13]Desire vs. truth until I finally find happiness
[01:42.19]
[02:01.06]I was put here to do something
[02:03.02]before I'm lying in that casket
[02:04.50]I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is
[02:07.67]The world's a stage and we play a character, I found him
[02:10.69]It took me 20 something years
[02:12.11]and a bunch of shitty soundchecks
[02:13.79]I'm not gonna be content, till I find gratitude
[02:16.81]Regardless of my sales or the record deals that they're handing you
[02:19.97]If the next generation takes a legacy in samples
[02:22.31]You will have a bunch of mp3's of misled kids to pass 'em to
[02:26.05]I use my veins to create the color I paint from
[02:28.72]Delve into self until my heart becomes my paint brush
[02:32.12]I told my momma I'm not stopping till my names up
[02:35.15]Thinkin' those comments on that blog is gonna save us
[02:38.19]Searching for everything but God to validate ya
[02:40.78]Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters
[02:44.11]Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant
[02:46.87]Truth, the only thing that I ever used in moderation
[02:49.95]So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle
[02:53.13]Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful
[02:56.01]Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical
[02:59.24]So that people can relate to where I've been,
[03:01.39]Where I'm going, what I've seen, what I've heard
[03:03.20]From the guts, fuck the glory
[03:04.96]Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording
[03:08.08]Many in my past and many that came before me
[03:11.23]I just keep walking my path and I'm blessed to share my story