Battlefield

Darius…

I know it get quiet in there…and that’s when it hit the hardest. The war ain’t end when you left it…it just moved insideI been thinking about you…about everything you carrying What you carrying, Darius? You survived the war outside…

now you fighting the one inside ’Cause the mind…the mind a battlefield

Detroit built you—you know what it did

Taught you how to survive… had you thinking like this. Stay on your toes, don’t trust what you see.’Cause survival come first… that’s how it had to be.We came from the same table, same hunger to eat

But you carried it different… I see that in you, D

Then you went to war—front line, infantry

Where sleep don’t exist and peace ain’t free

Came back with weight most won’t understand

Now you fighting a war they can’t see in a man

They don’t see what you carry… they don’t know what it cost

All them battles you fought… all the pieces you lost

You feel alone… I ain’t gon’ lie

I know that’s real… I know that’s right

But you still breathing—God got plans

There’s purpose in your lungs… so stand

Watch your 6… keep your head on straight

This ain’t your end, it’s just your wait

Don’t let them walls tell you who you are

You more than the time, you more than them bars

Watch your 6… don’t drop your guard

But don’t lose your heart in something hard

You coming home—I’m speaking that truth

Just hold on… I believe in you

The mind a battlefield… that’s where it stay

When it get quiet… here’s what it say

“You ain’t enough… you on your own

God ain’t there… and your homies gone”

But that ain’t truth—that’s the war in your head

That’s everything you seen… everything you bled

You left one battlefield, walked into another

Now you fighting yourself while you holding it together

You feel alone… I ain’t gon’ lie

I know that’s real… I know that’s right

But you still breathing—God got plans

There’s purpose in your lungs… so stand

Watch your 6… keep your head on straight

This ain’t your end, it’s just your wait

Don’t let them walls tell you who you are

You more than the time, you more than them bars

Watch your 6… don’t drop your guard

But don’t lose your heart in something hard

You coming home—I’m speaking that truth

Just hold on… I believe in you

I know you asking… “why them, not me?”

Why they gone… and you still here breathing

But some fulfill what they came to do

And God bring them home when they journey through

That don’t mean you forgotten or left

That mean your purpose ain’t finished yet

Watch your 6… stand on your name

You still you, you ain’t changed

They don’t define you, don’t let them try

You still got purpose on the other side

Watch your 6… I got your back

Even from here, just know that

You not alone—don’t believe that lie

You still here… and that’s by design

D…The war outside… that was temporary

The one in your mind…that’s the one you gotta win every day. But you ain’t fighting it alone