1. |
Higher
03:35
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I don’t understand how we don’t see problems
We treating the game like the bottom
Of running shoes while you robbin
Either you gonna shoot
Or they gone stop you
Just what they taught you
Life is worth more than the things that they bought you
Brotha I watch you
Feelings worth more than the cost too
Too many people
Behind the idea
They hiding behind all the costumes
Watch you
Watch all your friends
The places you been
And your thoughts too
If I could have known all the things I do now
I would’ve reached for the top
And do what a boss do
all of your shooters they Judas they crossed you
They like the things that I’m onto
I like do what I want to
Brother we on soon
This ain’t a game
But you playing like you can roll the dice and move away
Going super saiyan
Imma move my way
And you can’t duplicate it
Sayin you can’t take it
I don’t need no rules
I just move to break em
If it’s rude then your mood is shaken
I don’t mean to intrude your space
I don’t do complacent
All your friends come around
when you you can make it
If you wanna play you falling like dominos
Already meeting allot of goals
Making my way to the plane
like you ought to know
This is not a joke
Hit The stage then i gotta go
Music is life make it honorable
This is for love no it’s not for gold
It just happens to be profitable
Just imagine If i dropped the load
That’s a road I will never go
Impossible
I make sure my heart is audible
I make the sure the peace is possible
Takes a piece up out the optical
See the scenes
Show these people it ain’t optional
No there ain’t shit here
To talk about
If you don’t respect me
Betcha I’m walk-in out
I’m growing I’m hearing they talkin now
When all you was doin was talkin down
I don’t resent
Hold on my pen
I know what I’m worth
No i wont swerve
This a growth spurt
If you wonder it gone work
I feel like the finish is closer
This is closure
I'd do it all over
I’m keeping it sober
But I like my weed and my whiskey
My tea and wraps and my coaster
Ohh no no
How does it feel
When your boy come and bring you that real
Power is higher
Let go your desires
Ohh no no
How does it feel
When your boy come and bring you that real
Power is higher
Let go your desires
Ya move like a monsoon
Watch the paranoia
It will haunt you
What would your god do
If the world isn’t moving behind you
And the lights they can blind you
Hov
I don’t see Ye
I don’t see legends in interviews
I don’t see goat
I don’t see dope
I’m just like what’s gotten into you
I don’t see slim
He just went ghost
He used to stand for the bus
He used to stand for the trust
He used to stand for the people
What happened like fuck
All of my idols Went away
And couldn't innovate
I wanna set it straight
If i ever say that I’m stuck
Just know
That I let away
All of the pain as I renovate
It’s hard to be strong
When they wanting you crushed
Like a feeling of lust for the game
I’m accustomed to change
As I run through my brain
Hope that I never succumb to the pain
As I drum in the rain
With the sun in my veins
My people are hungry
To rumble the chains
Matter of time till the coming days
Hope that you find a love that will stay
Open your mind
said open your mind
Got no one to side with
Allahu we could vibin
Silence
Khici manito alive
And Yahweh
Yashua
Keep us surviving
Lookin for peace on your island
Honest to god
Ouh jnana
Use it for love and the honor
This the hakuna Matata
Allah
All of the things that we gotta
More than a feelin of honour
All of the pain but we got up
All of the screams for the dollars
Making my dream its regardless
Cream for the guidance
Life’s what it seems till you try it
Can’t even think bout where
I been i been
Thinking bout flying
Can’t even think bout the irony
Sirens
Living life
I’m going diving thriving
Got a little bit of an alignment
I’m writing and I’m looking where the line went
Peter pied I’m feeling tired
And Heal from my environment
A minute of my time
And I can make you feel inspired
I’m at the bottom but I’m working feeling fine
Oh me oh my
Tolerate the business
Cause everything is true until it isn’t
But you follow in they shoes like a religion
Tell me if I didn’t have the flow to kick a written or a platform I could spit
Would you really give a shit?
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2. |
Stay Woke
04:03
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Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s to all the times that we find while we live this life
And when I die butterflies fill the sky
Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s to all the times that we find while we live this life
And when I die butterfly’s fill the sky
Hold up
They just wanna get in my business
Lovin the life that I’m living
Just gimme 5 minutes
don’t fake what I say just for my image
No limit do the dash til the finish
You won’t last with the gimmicks
Best of the class is my confession
Every word like a lesson
I’m a bird w the blessings
What you heard is what they guessin
Unless it came from me
absurd I been flexin
Stressing
Bout the things In my reflection
I been seein more attention than ever
Where I done start my endeavors I'm worshiping God but I talk to the Devil
Cause in my heart I’m a rebel
Bump in the car w the treble
We already startin the trouble
I put it all in the jungle
It’s hard to be humble
Wack mcs
Tryna pass me
Rip it like Apache
Jump in the taxi back seat
Gentlemen ask me
Catch up with how I keep it so classy
Nasty
I don’t rely on something has been
Cause that could be a bad thing
Need an Oscar with your acting
Till casket I’m going bat shit with the passion
Ye I just spray the facts all the pussies be reacting
The captains a dragon
I put out some lyrics while you put it as caption
Guess that I be giving you askin
Hip hop relapsing
This got the action
This hot the wrist hot Imagine
Criss cross seen alot of tragic
Keep it in my baggage
We got to have shots
We not the mascots of rappin
From this moment I quote
Hold on what’s reals
Just remember
Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s too All the times that we find while we live this life
When When I die butterfly’s Fill the sky
Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s too All the times that we find while we live this life
And When I die butterfly’s Fill the sky
Get the money hit the show
Everybody hit the flow
Life is beauty
Get to to know all the things you livin for
Get the money hit the show
Everybody hit the flow
Life is beauty
Get to to know all the things you livin for
You ain’t never been around That
I want a big house for my fam and my crown back
People are down then
But soon as you make your moves
Yah they claim that they found that
They were apart of the sound
They were apart of the times you were down
Fuck that you was never around
No cap I been ending it now
Heads In the clouds
No I won’t ever come down
I’m on the edge It’s stressing me out
Don’t pay attention to doubt
If I been through hell then heaven is now
Heart in my craft won’t ever look down
I need some plans to figure this out
I need some bands a bigger amount
All of these things I’m thinking bout
I need the truth God
I need a minute yah I needa sit in your shoes
Know that my mission is true
You gave me ambition
for things that I’m wishin to do
Still I be sippin the juice
Still I be skipping the school
Still I be flippin them tunes
Still missin all the rules yo Isn’t it cool
When you get what you want
But it’s not what you choose
So hard but there’s so few
Give it all but won’t make it through
Who we are is Is what you make of you
Once were born is when you make your views
Close my eyes what I hate to do
I hate being patient but I’m waitin through
The road to greatness only made by few
If could change
I would stay the same you ain’t drowning my boat
I give it all I got but
Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s too All the times that we find while we live this life
When When I die butterfly’s Fill the sky
Get the money hit the show
Everybody hit the flow
Life is beauty
Get to to know all the things you livin’ for
Get the money hit the show
Everybody hit the flow
Life is beauty
Get to to know all the things you livin’ for
Stay woke
Keep your eyes on the distance
Don’t hold on to your rear view
Don’t let the fakes get anywhere near you
Here’s too All the times that we find while we live this life
And When I die butterfly’s Fill the sky
Stay Woke
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3. |
Frozen
03:56
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“New numbers from stats Canada show Manitoba once again leading the nation, and its not for something we can be proud of. We have the highest homicide rate of any province in the country. And as (Indiscernible) reports the numbers show a stark & troubling contrast between Aboriginal Manitobans and the rest of the population”
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
But still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
But still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
Gotta stay in control of your conscious
Following your dream gets cold better watch where you go
Yah it’s hard to get a hold of the concept
Sometimes we feel lost with no target
Told my fam that I’m an artist
When I first saw that the wave was starting
Peel back my heart for my father
Swear to god that imma change up the order
On all these finer things
I don’t deserve it
Yet know that I’m working
And I will not hide away
Put my feet in the dirt and I stand for a purpose
Gotta stay focused the time is near
Don’t pretend I’m not wide aware
Go and tell me this fight is fair
We been down for 500 years
Still surrounded by unaware
See the passion is a green light
Put aside the problems of the fake one
You living for a real life
Gotten used to these chains but they still tight
Does it feel right how the story goes
Or is it stuck in head
Can’t believe we ain’t plunging yet
That’s the truth
Hard to swallow when all of your choices in life turn around and come after you
So we on the move
Tell me young king what you gonna do
When they want one thing demons hunting you
All the love they take it ain’t nothing new
And if you want some change gotta suffer through
When the drums gets played that’s the thunder boom
When you love this weight what you gonna choose
Thanks for reminding me bury this pain this pain I got nothing to lose
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
Still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
Still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
“There still has to be a Social Intervention. There has to be.”
“Winnipeg has now matched its worst ever year for murders. Two people were killed over the past weekend bringing to Thirty Four, the total of people killed in cases that are considered homicides”
Locked from the bottom
yeah you gone but not forgotten
I remember days we had empty pockets
Hold it high stay standing strong if we fallen
The truth will rise and we gone ride till the morning
All These finer things
I got no regrets
Our focus is so direct
We ain’t folding yet
got a bone to pick
No way I’ll be alone again
Stand tall and I won’t pretend
Hope you don’t either
Run like the game like you don’t need her
Life a bitch but you gone feed her
What’s the final vow
Got to here from a problem child
Ain’t no life you can ride around
Got the fuel In the right amount
Rising up just to settle down
All my stress I’m gone let it out
Had to it take different route
How we living ain’t with it
The sharks in the water ain’t vicious
Unless you been talking bout business
people improperly fishing
I can’t sit around and just watch as we kill it
You gotta reach down get inside of your feelings
You take all the plains for the buildings
But you can’t erase what we building
It’s all in good faith for the children
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
Still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
Gotta keep up your composure
Seen the bottom seen the lowest
Still my eyes out here are open
In the city of the frozen
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4. |
Changed Up
03:28
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Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
Hold your problems hold your issues
Go grab your dreams and run if they gone let you
I know we had our problems but I miss you
Now I got 1000 problems that I’m into
And just for the record
I wouldn’t it change it up not for second
But I would do more just to show you I meant it
Guess these lows always turn into lessons
The more that we know seems the more that we stressing
I put it all on the line
I see it all in my eyes
The truth ain’t got nothing to prove
Allow me to try and re do
Steps that I take
these paths that I drew
I’m gonna manifest too
A place for my parents
And dad in a room
Damn if you don’t
And damned if you do.
I’m still moving on
Time won’t slow for moving love
But I can’t lose it all
Think about it
You know you want it
So go about it
Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
I Don’t know why
These feelings I cannot keep them inside
You wanted to take a peek at my life
(But) to tell the truth
Yah you know I won’t lie
But this shit is all the same in my eyes
Build a dream stack the cream for my line
I don’t need your energy by my side
I got all the things I need to survive
And when I’m down down down I get high
Clash when we feeling tasked
Put it in the bag
I was in the fast lane looking bad
Tryna find a fast change from the life of these past days
But it’s all in a days work
You can’t take what I made work
Yah I’m heading up going face first
Wanna show me love give me taste first
Y’all know I don’t waste words (Like)
Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
Ouhh ouhh they wanna talk about it
I remember at the bottom
Changed up my surroundings
Ouhh ouhh they wanna hear about it
Had to sacrifice it all just to climb the mountain
Just to climb the mountain
Just to climb the mountain
Just to climb the
Just to climb the mountain
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5. |
No Distractions
04:48
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It’s no distractions
I put it all on the line
It’s do or die you feel the passion
So many problems around
And y’all still acting like it’s tragic
I’ll get my father a house
And put my momma in a mansion
So much shit is backwards
I’m searching for an answer it’s still no distractions
I got a thing for ya
Hold on tight you never know what could swing for ya
Or what could happen if you reach for it
Screaming they want me to have it
I’ll get to it each morning
No room for no progress sit back still answering each person
These verses full of the fire formed from the crucible
Sacrifice what we gotta
Then get to sparking the usual
No time to recollect
Nah we resurrecting hip hop
A silhouette
no funeral i will attest
in your best interest To live and let go
Let’s go
The hard times I was living made home
Swallow my past and release the negativity
I was up in class in the back just fiddling
Now we on
and all I see around me here is the process
I promise to stay conscious at my concerts
Heal the trauma while they watching
Ain’t no costume for the camera
Glitz glamour I don’t need it
Sit and listen to the leaders
Turn around and then go speak it
Take at look at your surroundings
Feel the ground it wants to meet you
All our crowns have fallen down
This the sound you gotta seize true
I understand it’s life you wanna be free to
So I lay it down a little loud
But it’s still
No distractions
I put it all on the line
It’s do or die you feel the passion
So many problems around
And y’all still acting like it’s tragic
I’ll get my father a house
And put my momma in a mansion
So much shit is backwards
I’m searching for an answer it’s still no distractions
And when they callin you out you just gotta be you
All apart of the journey never let it defeat
use It to advantage
You is on the planet
I’ll be damned if we don’t fix all of this damage
God damnit
I love you lord but we been stranded
Won’t see freedom start to ring in from the cannon
Truth ain’t gone love wont vanish
We ride and fall still getting lost like it’s a habit
On a roll to see tomorrow
Catch these feelings through the static
Find the meaning of your energy
Protect yourself imagine
That we never had any of this
Poof gone just like its magic
New dawn
we too strong
But usually tragic
Changing the quota cope with passion
Giving back what we have
Invest our plans into expansion
I don’t have to relax
And I don’t need nobody claiming what I have on my back
We shining stars like asterisk
To magnify our future all our love is what we have to risk
Yah i had a dream but never planned for this
So imma start with just revealing all the masks of the men
Believe it I am back again
God don’t make accidents
I’m wondering what happens when
the passion and the product of this world begin to clash
I hold on to what I have
I move on from all my past
Said when I’m gone give it a chance
Maybe a listen
(I said) maybe all of this wishing starts to pay off
In future list off the bad
I been through the motions at glance
I just wanted a chance at the other side
Just wanna put a couple bands into my mother’s eyes
All these butterflies flying
Singing among the tyrants
We immune to the virus they try to spread right through our mind it’s
No distractions
I put it all on the line
It’s do or die you feel passion
So many problems around
And y’all still acting like it’s tragic
I’ll get my father a house
And put my momma in a mansion
So much shit is backwards
I’m searching for an answer it’s still no distractions
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6. |
Butterfly
04:22
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Rather say I’m not I’m not Involved
Spread my wings like a butterfly
Tryna slow, Watch it grow
Never know , Where it goes
Keep my eyes up on the road
Let it go, Lift away with the butterflies
Let my heart out
There’s a reason I don’t even call now
There’s a hole that I crawled out
But I cannot say that I balled out
Done seen all the things that you on now
I’ll be heading out for a long while
Check all the stats it’s on file
Used to be headed the wrong way
Till the moment I fell in for your smile
Passion is passive aggressive
How do I manage progression
The last to attend all the classes I entered
Isn’t it funny how I can remember
All of the things that don’t make it better
Locked away in stormy weather
(Said) Why I’m writing you this letter
Mind ain’t quite but I get up (Yah)
Feel the problems
But don’t let up nah
Take our problems if you let us God
Life is lovely and I hit it raw
Ask them all how I been the involved
Started out just a little small
Went and changed up now I’m living large
Made my prayers
This is gods works
I don’t make the calls
I just lay it down and i give my all
Yah I gave my all
Seen some things out here
That could make you bawl
I ain’t talking bout no metaphors
Y'all seem fine when you ain’t involved
When your head is lost
Only seem to cry
When you tag along
Only when your homie is dead and gone
I can’t fake it lord
Need a moment of silence
I made it here surviving
So long are the days
Where we split on a five
And the moment is alive
Up at 6:45 until midnight comes
And the sun goes by
I’m singing, we alright
I’m searching for the time of my life
Won’t somebody come and tell me what’s right
Pray the love won’t end
There’s something beautiful within our minds
Catching ques
Writing verses I refuse
To let em take me from my fuel
I'm a bird that’s in sky
And nothing that you saying’s new
This moment here is all I got and i’m going to take it to the moon
Tell me why time’s always gone to soon
Can’t forget the memories
That made me walk along the road
If I could feel your energy on top of me then I won’t fold
I’m consciously exhausting knowledge
Constantly upon the road
I don’t wanna waste my time all alone
I been on hiatus
But it ain't felt like no vacation
I just had to get away
Been gaining perspective same shit that comes with
All I know is I've had me some better days
but now I'm committed, I'm with it
I'm finding new balance whenever I meditate
and every stepping stone got me so focused
I'm not even stopping to celebrate
And I never go by emotions
Been thinking what's really important
I'm stuck on my future
And I need to pause and be present in life at the moment
Been feeling repetitive stresses
They only got me asking what is the lesson
My mama taught me to be counting my blessings
So now I'm thankful even down in depression
I must be diamond I'm surrounded by pressure
Feeling grateful cause I know where I be
Now with every time I step outta comfort
I'm only hyped up for the fruit imma reap
You know it's Davi and Caid Jones
With a purpose to ride for the people
Ain't quittin I'm dying fore I get defeated
Put words on my fam can be certain I mean em
I'm feeling like I could do more that's on everything (Ugh)
That's on everything (What)
I can't quit I could get everything
Just to give back to the people who's energy
Got me so strong feel like I could do anything (Uhh)
That's on 99 problems that weigh the titanic an 50
But I know I'm blessed so I handle em swiftly
And get to my business I'm back like the 60s (Woah))
Can't get rid of me though
I ain't dead til I outlive the area code
Love this city so much I should marry it yo
Fuck it I'll probably be buried in / snow
Meanwhile I shoot for the moon
And I ain't there yet but I'm feeling it's soon
Like a caterpillar wrapped in cocoon
You gotta find your inner beauty in you
Yesterdays gone tomorrow
I done seen a lot of sorrow
Rather say I’m not I’m not Involved
Spread my wings like a butterfly
Tryna slow, Watch it grow
Never know , Where it goes
Keep my eyes up on the road
Let it go, Lift away with the butterflies
Yah with the butterflies
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7. |
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They taking power and profit
But we empowered and watching
Can’t analyze or pre-define no matter how many stop it
This is history repeated
But we changing the outcome
No more crossing off the exes in the middle like Malcolm
Call me insane I can’t live like this
Erase the mist from my eyes
And wonder what this life is
As I reinvent from a hollow
And pray to god for tomorrow
Tell me why we can’t fix
All of these problems
Let me re write scripts
Often I drown in this world they trying to frown upon
A clear mind and fear lies
Always coming round
When I was 16 i almost ran myself into ground
That was six feet
Crazy how i got to where I’m now
In a city where they try take your story cause your brown
Luckily I found god
There’s still murder all time
Choose your path
But always do it with excellence
I give my whole life to shine a light on the crevices
Raise a deficit
My Momma raised me a veteran
Always looking around
I pay attention to messages
Moral essence lord fill me up with your blessings
Fill them up with your love that I’m feeling
Come down and spread it
YES YESS
YES YESS
YES YESS
YES YESS
When we all get to heaven
What a day that will be
When we all get to heaven
What a day that will be
YES YESS
YES YESS
(YES YESS)
(YES YESS)
Open my eyes
Swear to god I’m delirious
Get a hold of your motives
Cause I don’t fuck w ulterior
If I stayed at the bottom
I’d find my comfort I’m serious
Cause the world is so close to breaking
The truth is I’m furious
Mama told me grow seeds
No matter how far the hope seems
That’s an OG now she’s become her own queen
Won’t follow pop I ain’t no fiend
The harder the fall The better the coke be
The grime of the low streets
See crime and have no streaks
So let the song cry
And let me paint you my vision over this long ride
Over some music while replaying my memories
Like a record hear the drop
Don’t pay attention to enemies
No we walking to the top
Through the time we remembering
Shit is elegant if it’s ever been
I’m speaking on a racist in the room not an elephant
And everywhere i go yeah I’m bringing this intelligence
And they still acting like we separated
But we all in this world fuck a generation
Me and my people growing tense we waiting
But instead you wanna stand around and fight
And get your head invaded
YES YESS
YES YESS
YES YESS
YES YESS
When we all get to heaven
What a day that will be
When we all get to heaven
What a day that will be
YES YESS
YES YESS)
Hoping for elevation
I know the devil’s lazy
I’ll be there waiting
Counting time as I’m meditating
I know sometimes I’m out of line
But I’ll demonstrate that life’s
Coming straight from the divine
Even tho it’s hard to find
Spread your wings and you can fly
Presence is amazing
I don’t hold a 45 but the fire is blazing
I’m mortified and holding blind statements
Hold the line sorta tired lately
I ain’t letting out a cry if they make me
Imma keep going, rolling staying ferocious
And grab a lock into the life that I have chosen
Lord is my witness I can’t regret any choices
Only reason I’m here Is cause I listened to voices
Here to bring about a voice for the voiceless
Don’t gotta act like you know it you can’t avoid it
Remaining flamboyant & walk through the sand storming
Transforming praying to god that he got plans for me
You won’t find answers in a bad forest
You’ll lose the chance if you don’t grab for it
You won’t attain it till you can’t hold it in anymore
And let them hear the feelings that you have for it
When we all get to heaven
What a glorious day
Put your heart on your sleeve
Start exploring your faith
I guess there's more to the story
Always more you can say
But imma let It away
Lets go (Uh-Huh)
I’m doing this for God
I'm doing this for God so lets run it
I'm doing this for God so lets run it
Lets run it
When we all get to heaven what a glorious day that will be
Wonder if heaven could sound like this
(Interlude) Caid Jones
Speaking To each men and woman hold your speeches
Land of the free is where your holy priest is
Verses on Sunday leave the boardroom speechless
Born in Eden If you see a wallet you gone keep it?
Admit that we sin
The hearts of free men have turned shallow forgot the deep end
Comfort in Warm water burn hallow born to unleash it
The coral reef is turned gray
I’m Preaching on this burned page
The worth of my birth on earth ain’t just worth bank
For sure change is what we need to ensure gone gray
But we rather focus on Beyonce
Billionaires with the bomb plate
Thinking you have what its gone take?
That’s a long stretch
It’s a long day
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Caid Jones Winnipeg, Manitoba
Co-Founder of PayAttention Inc | Music and Community Outreach | Passionate about Environmental and Social justice | Professional Recording Artist at PayAttention Records | Creative Director for PayAttention Inc |
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