Talk My Life Out Loud

I was raised where the buses run late

Mama kept change in a chipped ashtray

Dreams in a shoe box under my bed

Prayed they’d grow legs, learn to escape

Hand-me-down coat, one size too big

Still felt small when the rent came due

Teacher said “you talk way too much”

Funny how that mouth pay my bills now too

I remember cold floors, thin walls

Arguin' through doors, late calls

Sat on the stairwell, ear to the fight

Thinkin', "One day I’ma turn this to light"

I just talk my life out loud

Every scar, every laugh, every doubt

If I said it on a track, then I bled it from my mouth

I don’t make up nothin', I just air it all out

I just talk my life out loud (yeah)

Every win, every loss, every route

If you feel it in your chest when you hear it, that’s the sound

Of somebody like you gettin' dragged from the ground

Used to count coins for a bus ride home

Now I count blessings when I’m ridin' alone

Friends turn ghosts when the trouble got deep

Some came back when the table had seats

First love left with a two-line text

Said I’m married to the grind, she was probably correct

'Cause I bury every secret in these sixteen bars

Turn my broken little pieces into big gold stars

I don’t talk like I’m tougher than I am

I talk like the kid with a half-broke plan

Who tripped, got up, wiped blood from his mouth

Said “watch this” and walked a new route

I just talk my life out loud

Every scar, every laugh, every doubt

If I said it on a track, then I bled it from my mouth

I don’t make up nothin', I just air it all out

I just talk my life out loud (talk it)

Every win, every loss, every route

If you feel it in your chest when you hear it, that’s the sound

Of somebody like you gettin' dragged from the ground