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I can feel it
I can feel it in my spirit
You can hear it
Through my vocal box tearing
What you’re fearing is a
Product of the drum breaks
The nights that I stay up late
Tryna make this work
So the children’s earth ain’t insane
Battling the darkness but I’m losing the war
Feel like whenever I talk they just be shrugging me off
But every beat that I’ve torn through is work of a God
But I been searching for a purpose cause the tree of life is bout to fall
I ask the pastor to absolve me of sin
As long as he don’t try and take my money again
I don’t wanna give it all just to find me some balance
So it’s 4725 until I reach the casket
Fourth is the one I follow
The seventh a sacred treasure
Second I use for pleasure
The fifth is a deadly weapon
The moment that you harness them they take them away
But they can never clip my wings
I’ma soar to outer space

Always known I was gonna be alone
Forever on my own tryna make a dream my home
I’ll never let it go til the day I reach the end of me
And even when I’m gone they gon always have to mention me
Cause everyone will know the day that I cement my legacy
So you don’t have to mourn cause you know my spirit never sleeps
It lives forever and ever within these symphonies
And you know it’s for infinity

Nowadays I’m feeling distant from my own fam
And all my friends who said they there for me done switched the plans
I feel like Kevin Ab
Don’t think they understand
Sometimes you gotta be your own fucking boyband
Sometimes you gotta be your own motherfucking fan
And pray to whatever spirit you’re dealt a greater hand
Until then it’s fuck the world I’m on my own now
I can’t go back in time and change I gotta grow now
I’m screaming fuck these consequences I ain’t running
I been hiding under covers cause the light is what I’m ducking
I been tryna find my place as the world throws me under
Demons watching me shudder as people praying I fail
But you know I always prevail I’m Bronte with the thunder
I’ll rap until I die it’s all I have before I plummet
I’ll scream into the nothing praying it’ll give me something
Arms open mind closing never coped with repercussions

Always known I was gonna be alone
Forever on my own tryna make a dream my home
I’ll never let it go til the day I reach the end of me
And even when I’m gone they gon always have to mention me
Cause everyone will know the day that I cement my legacy
So you don’t have to mourn cause you know my spirit never sleeps
It lives forever and ever within these symphonies
And you know it’s for infinity

I know you’ll be proud of me
I know you’ll be proud of me
In my mind
I can find
Something godly
I know you’ll be proud of me
I know you’ll be proud of me
In my mind
I can find
Something godly

Now let me set the example
When I be flipping the samples
I be speaking thoughts ample
Amplifying every tantrum
Speak my mind in every tangent
Feel the soul of every rapper
That’s passed, present and future
Spread my music like a cancer
So here’s the answer
And I know that it’s a given
But I’m fully in sync with rhythms
And patterns in my visions
I can see a promised land for me
Creating from the ground up
Funny how life works now I see where I wound up
Navigating pathways to my destination
If I take a wrong turn it might lead to my decimation
But a fraction of my heart is laced within every bar for me
They say they rap from the heart I’m attacking every artery
I’m honestly a God to me
I practice every word I preach
And teach my verbs upon the earth
Until it hurts for me to speak
Til I can’t even fucking breathe
Wait let me take a breath
Now I’m ready to spit my soul til there’s nothing left
Do not do this for respect
Do not do this for a cheque
Even when it’s mixed by Cheq
I’m involved in every step
Don’t mean to be spreading ego
But please do not miss these steps
Bitch I am a soaring eagle
Flying through the Ethernet
Every brushstroke is all apart of a deeper web
I do this for the broken youth who don’t know if their life is even worth it
Finding purpose tryna float above the surface
I am merely a servant to the unnerved and nervous
I am merely a vessel for the mess that is the person
I am merely a person truly flawed and imperfect
I am merely a mirror to the spirits of the broken
Wounded healer for realer l I been speaking words unspoken
Fuck a double entendre and fuck all this wordplay
I’m tryna start making differences and make the world change
If I die trying, fuck it then
I hope they all pray for me
I’m going into battle with metaphors as my weaponry
Bravado my body armour in the carnage I tend to see
A tendency to run from the darkness as it begins to creep
But see, it was meant for me
A rainbow is my legacy
I’ll always be a friend for you
And I do not pretend to be
Fake woke spiritual I speak from my universe
So if you don’t get it that’s a you problem first
I’m a symbol of everything from hospitals to hearses
Who still does not know how to end his verses
Fuck with me
And you know it’s for infinity

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

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