[Intro]
Back and forth again
Same two skylines
Same old questions
Brand new sins
[Verse 1]
I’m in Cali where the sun look plastic
Plastic smiles, plastic caskets
Duffle bag fat like a book of bad habits
Carry-on karma, TSA can’t scan it (nah)
Vacuum packs land on the porch like omens
Brown box Buddha, label say “moment”
Open up the tape, smell fate, inhale it
Every little flake like a choice I’m selling
Flight to the Chi, two seats, one shadow
Clouds underneath, up here feel shallow
Sky such a liar, blue like it’s harmless
But rain hit hard on the ones who starving
[Chorus]
I’m just a thought on the interstate
Cali to the Chi, tryna bend my fate
Duffle full of doubts, dressed up like loot
Whole life stuffed in a nylon tomb
Feds in the mirror like a rearview truth
Flash like God when the cherries go blue
If the road is a prayer, what lane I choose?
I’m a paradox moving in designer shoes
[Verse 2]
UPS drop hope at the neighbor’s address
Wrong door, right stress
Every little scan in the system confess
Barcodes preach more than the preachers at best
Truck routes looking like veins on a map
Cities sip poison from the same damn tap
I’m the little red dot on a screen they track
Philosophers now wearing raid-style black
Wind from the lake cut sharp like logic
Cold like the questions I keep in my pocket
Cali got palms, but the shade feel toxic
Both coasts talk, but the truth sound caustic (yeah)
What’s law to a kid with a rent due monster?
What’s sin to a saint with a rich sponsor?
If I flip one brick, is my soul that cheaper?
Or is God just the ultimate gatekeeper?
[Chorus]
I’m just a thought on the interstate
Cali to the Chi, tryna bend my fate
Duffle full of doubts, dressed up like loot
Whole life stuffed in a nylon tomb
Feds in the mirror like a rearview truth
Flash like God when the cherries go blue
If the road is a prayer, what lane I choose?
I’m a paradox moving in designer shoes
[Bridge]
If they cuff me, is the mind still free? (huh)
If I stop now, who gon’ eat but me?
If the bag just bones and a little belief
Is the crime the supply or the hunger beneath?
[Chorus]
I’m just a thought on the interstate
Cali to the Chi, tryna bend my fate
Duffle full of doubts, dressed up like loot
Whole life stuffed in a nylon tomb
Feds in the mirror like a rearview truth
Flash like God when the cherries go blue
If the road is a prayer, what lane I choose?
I’m a paradox moving in designer shoes