[Chorus]
Running out of time, running out of grace
Every second matters when you're running in this race
Paranoia fading, but the pressure's real
Gotta keep your eyes open when you're learning how to heal
*Look both ways...*
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[Verse 1]
Fame hit different when your circle start to shift
Used to break the bread together, now they after every gift
Bought my mama something beautiful, a crown above her door
Thirty thousand in her mailbox, still she prayed for more — *not the money, but my soul*
Dodge the Magnum, dodge the traps, dodge the hollow praise
Went from nothing to a platform in a hundred days
But the limelight got a shadow that'll swallow you whole
And the woman that I loved left when I found my role
Now I'm standing in the sanctuary, suits pressed clean
Congregation watching close to see what hunger means
Every blessing came with warfare, every war with scars
But I traded in my crown of thorns for morning stars
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Verse 2
Feel the eyes upon my shoulders like a weighted yoke
Every whisper in the building sounds like someone spoke
About my failures, about my fractures, all the nights I wept
Searching for a remedy before the darkness crept
Doctor said I needed something just to level out
But the Most High gave me verses when I had my doubts
No prescription for this healing, just the Word and faith
Running from my own reflection 'til I found His face
Paranoia had me building walls inside my chest
Every handshake felt like Judas giving me his best
Now I'm reading through the Psalms at 3 AM again
Realizing every enemy was also used as wind —
*wind to push me closer to the throne*
Verse 3
Got a record, not the vinyl kind, the courthouse file
Every felony a footprint from a darker trial
Could've went back to the block where comfort wore a mask
Could've poured into the poison just to make the questions pass
But the streets don't have a future, only cycles and a grave
And the ancestors been calling me to rise up and be brave
So I traded in the corner for the altar and the fire
Traded temporary pleasure for a permanent empire
Now the temptation knocks like thunder, still I hear it loud
But I built my house on solid rock, not thunder clouds
Pressure made a diamond out of dirt and broken dreams
Nothing in this Gospel life is ever what it seems — *it's always more*
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Outro
Live like every breath is borrowed, every sunrise earned
Live like all the lessons in the fire had to burn
Look both ways before you cross into tomorrow's grace
Time is not a luxury — it's mercy, it's a race
*Look both ways...*
*Look both ways
We running out of time to get it right