[INTRO]
Twelve-oh-one, still awake
Whole city sleep, I’m wide awake
New day hit but I feel the same
Different room, same last name
Yeah
Look—
[VERSE 1]
Twelve-oh-one and the screen still glowin’
Too many numbers, I don’t even know ’em
Used to want doors, now they all stay open
Funny how the dream get strange when you hold it
Black tint ride through the cold downtown
They ain’t say shit when I wasn’t around
Now it’s “bro, you up?” when the song touch down
Same ones switched wanna come back ’round
I don’t hold grudges, I just hold distance
Learned real quick everybody got intentions
I was down bad, they ain’t pay attention
Now every move turn into a mention
And I still got people I would bleed for
Still got reasons I don’t sleep more
Still got nights I hit the fourth floor
Look out the glass like, “What I need more?”
[PRE-CHORUS]
Clock changed, but I didn’t
New day, same mission
They see lights, they see digits
They don’t see what came with it
[CHORUS]
It’s 12:01
And I’m already runnin’
Yesterday gone
But tomorrow keep comin’
Got my name in they mouth
Got the bass still hummin’
If I said I was done
Then you know I was bluffin’
12:01
I got too far to turn back
Whole lot changed
But my heart where I left that
If the road gets dark
I’ma drive where the lights at
Twelve midnight died—
12:01, I’m right back
[VERSE 2]
New checks come, I don’t celebrate much
Seen money make people forget who to trust
So I keep mine close, keep the circle cut
If you weren’t there low, don’t appear when it’s up
I got calls that I leave on read
Got thoughts that I keep in my head
Got people at home that I can’t forget
That’s the difference between me and the rest
I don’t need a room full of fake applause
Rather have one that know all my flaws
Know who I was before VEXXX got large
Before late nights turned into my job
Maybe I changed, maybe that’s alright
Maybe you gotta lose sleep for this life
But if I lose me somewhere in these lights
Tell ’em bring me home before sunrise
[BRIDGE]
One minute past yesterday
One minute closer to everything
I said I wanted this
I said I wanted this…
So why the hell
Does it feel different
When it finally listens?
[FINAL CHORUS]
It’s 12:01
And I’m already runnin’
Yesterday gone
But tomorrow keep comin’
Got my name in they mouth
Got the bass still hummin’
If I said I was done
Then you know I was bluffin’
12:01
No, I can’t turn back
Whole lot changed
Still know where my heart at
Let the whole world sleep
I’ll be up where the lights at
Twelve midnight died—
12:01, I’m right back
[OUTRO]
Twelve-oh-one…
Another night became another day.
XXX ended at midnight.
This starts now.