[Intro — spoken]
Yeah…
Everybody wants the plan
Before you make it happen.
I used to tell ’em everything.
Not anymore.
Three Xs. Keep that shit close.
[Hook]
I don’t tell ‘em where I’m going
I just let ’em see me there
Used to talk about the vision
Now I move like no one cares
Black clothes, red lights
Three Xs everywhere
They don’t need to know
They don’t need to know
Working after midnight
’Til the whole damn city glows
[Verse 1]
I remember sleepless nights
Writing dreams inside my phone
Had a hundred different plans
Scared to pick a single road
Told ‘em everything I wanted
They would smile and say, “That’s nice”
So I quit looking for approval
Started betting on my life
First X for desire
I’ve always wanted more
Second for devotion
To the shit I’m fighting for
Third one for destruction
For the person I outgrew
Had to tear apart the old me
Just to build somebody new
Silver hanging from my neck
Black tee, curtains closed
Red bleeding through the window
Another record in my notes
Phone down, head low
Nobody knows what I wrote
They can hear it when it’s ready
I don’t talk about it no more
[Pre-Hook]
Long nights, red eyes
Same dream running through my mind
Everybody sees the XXX
They don’t know what’s behind it
[Hook]
I don’t tell ‘em where I’m going
I just let ’em see me there
Used to talk about the vision
Now I move like no one cares
Black clothes, red lights
Three Xs everywhere
They don’t need to know
They don’t need to know
Working after midnight
’Til the whole damn city glows
[Verse 2]
Had people hear my dreams
Then make ’em feel too far away
Had me questioning the vision
I believed in yesterday
Now they ask me what I’m doing
I just tell ‘em, “You’ll find out”
I don’t need another voice
Putting static in my sound
I don’t post every session
I don’t show ‘em every track
I don’t need a hundred people
Telling me this shit’ll last
Spent too many nights alone
With the whole room glowing red
Couldn’t say the shit I felt
So I put it in a song instead
That’s VEXXX
Not a costume, not a name
It’s the part that comes alive
When everybody goes away
The hunger, the loyalty
The part that burns it down
Desire, devotion, destruction
That’s what the Xs are about
If you’ve ever wanted something
So damn bad it left a scar
Then you already understand—
Love leaves a mark.
[Break — whispered]
Three Xs.
One for what I want.
One for what I won’t abandon.
One for what I had to destroy
To become this.
[Bridge]
They’ll see it when it’s finished
They’ll hear it when it drops
They’ll recognize the three Xs
Before they know who I was
Some dreams grow better in the dark
So I learned to let ’em grow
[Final Hook]
I don’t tell ‘em where I’m going
I just let ’em see me there
Used to talk about the vision
Now I move like no one cares
Black clothes, red lights
Three Xs everywhere
They don’t need to know
They don’t need to know
Working after midnight
’Til the whole damn city glows
[Outro]
Desire.
Devotion.
Destruction.
VEXXX.
Love leaves a mark.