[vocal improvisation recommended]
[Intro – Spoken]
[RAP Male vocal]
Yeah…
You ever be surrounded by people…
Still feel like nobody really there?
Yeah…Yeah Yeah
[RAP male vocal]
Some say the hood made me cold, made me distant
But I been like this, stuck in my own mental prison
Tryna find peace but my thoughts keep fightin
Smile in the day, but at night I’m hidin
Uh uh uh
Wanna be seen, yeah I want that respect
But I don’t switch up just to get me a check
Stay solid, sometimes I take that risk
Only thing I wish I could change real quick
Yeah yeah
Young but my mind been old from the jump
Got two sides in me and they both turned up
One want calm, one want chaos n noise
So I move too fast, I ain’t livin like them boys
ain’t livin like them boys
[SUNG female vocal]
Stand up, don’t fold when it get like this
Chest tight, still breathe through the pain n grit
They ain’t ride, they dipped, now it’s just me left
Had to cut ‘em all off, now I talk to myself
No love, no hand when I hit that low
Now it’s f*ck everybody, I don’t need no soul
Heart cold, yeah I built it that way
In the dark too long, now I see my way
[RAP male vocal]
Climbed up high where the air get thin
Lowkey scared but I still locked in
Part of me curious, part wanna prove
I can stand in that storm, I got nothin to lose
No no no
Hear my young self callin from way back then
Like “you really made it where you feared back then?”
Now I’m that man, yeah I faced them nights
Still feel lost even after them fights
Wind blow loud but it don’t say much
Top get lonely when you don’t feel touch
Tryna find my place in this big world map
But it feel like everywhere I go, I overlap
Uh uh uh
[SUNG female vocal]
Stand up, don’t fold when it get like this
Chest tight, still breathe through the pain n grit
They ain’t ride, they dipped, now it’s just me left
Had to cut ‘em all off, now I talk to myself
No love, no hand when I hit that low
Now it’s f*ck everybody, I don’t need no soul
Heart cold, yeah I built it that way
In the dark too long, now I see my way
[RAP male vocal]
Pops woke up early, yeah 4 in the morn
Hands all cracked, workin through the storm
Made the house warm, had my shoes look right
I ain’t say thanks, I was blind back then, right?
Now I sit back thinkin damn, that was love
Even if it came rough, it was sent from above
Now I’m grown, feel that weight in my chest
Some love go quiet, but it still the best
[RAP male vocal]
Sittin in a crowd but I’m still by myself
Like I got all the bands but can’t buy no help
Like I left my wallet when I rushed out the crib
Got love in my life, just don’t feel what it is
City full of lights but it’s cold inside
Everybody flex but got pain they hide
Saw a lady chillin, yeah she calm, no stress
Like she cool with the silence, I ain’t there yet
[Outro – Spoken]
[RAP male vocal]
Yeah…
Some of us loud but we empty inside
Some of us quiet but we learned how to survive
Still here though…
