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Taking the train
Thinking bout blowing my brains
Coming outta uni shit faced
Made some mistakes
I got thoughts so insane
Running laps round these fakes
But I can’t change
Yes I been stuck in my ways
Felt like I’m running in place
I’m desperately trying to make a new fate
But I’m fucking worried it might be too late
I can’t even look in the mirror
Cause I always tear up
I start to realise that I’m broken
When I feel fearless
I’m not seeing clearer
So I do not bother with showing emotion
I got some demons and Jesus is livid
With all of my actions that’s backwards and twisted
Will I be forgiven for all of my sinning
Or am I just doomed to the life that I’m living
I gotta be Truman cause this shit feels scripted
My mum getting sicker and our time is limited
She might get better but I feel pathetic
Cause I cannot help with the bills or her living sitch
I’m in debt
And I’m broke as fuck
Spending all my money on this music
Just for no one to listen it got me conflicted
What if all this hard work been useless
And it’s changing my soul and I’m losing control
And someone tried to call me abusive
Yeah I’ve got some thoughts that’s intrusive
But I’d never lay hands on a woman
So don’t lie on my name for some credit
I was gon tell you how I feel but forget it
But every letter I’m spitting is greatness discerned
This is the moment I’ve earned
This is the return

And I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do
Nana told me that shit and it’s true
So I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do

I know I talk a lot about suicide
Cause if I’m being honest g I really wanna die
But I do worry bout what might happen now
If I try put this up on Spotify
Cause when you start to make sample based art
All these labels wanna do is come and say you’re a criminal
Cause when you start to make art
That comes straight from the heart
Then they say you’re a *** that’s unoriginal
But I’m a God and that’s end of sentence
Crucified by my own intentions
Bitch I live in my own dimension
So fuck all the rules I don’t pay attention
Your loss if you don’t wanna listen
Cause I beat my own beats to submission
Since I was born I been on a mission
Making these tracks til I’m counting these millions
See I do it for the fam
And when I get famous imma do it for my fans
And if it’s cliche I don’t care what you say
Ever since I was a kid g I always had a plan
To be the fucking man that my father never was
And to build my own buzz maybe buy my own land
We need to take it back cause for years they attacked
Cause our wairua strong but they never understand
Listen up
Fuck the tropes and generalizations
How come we gotta fight hard for our nation
Cause when I try to speak my language and can’t say shit
I realise that colonisation
Still got more effects then it should on me
On my brown little cousins when they feeling lonely
So imma work my ass off
Til I’m so far gone
Everybody gonna think that they really know me

And I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do
Nana told me that shit and it’s true
So I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do
And I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do
Nana told me that shit and it’s true
So I gotta stay on the move
Whole life I been feeling confused
Everytime I fall
I feel I might lose
My nana dementia in mind
Looked me in my eyes
And told me the truth
You can fail when you do what you hate
So you just do what you want to do

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from I STILL CAN'T AFFORD THERAPY! (EXTENDED CUT), released August 25, 2023

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