Think I've got a consensus

Bein' lost in the trenches

Adolescent lessons expressin' God's job to tempt us

Makin' it hard to stay alive

It's so easy to die

Makin' you hang your head low

But say "reach for the skies"



Life is a walkin' contradiction

I've seen through its lies

I'm just tryin' to tell the stories I've seen through its eyes

I feel I'm forcing and feeding of off reasons to cry

With all this fake deep bullshit

I'm too eager to try



Everybody sendin' blessings in need of reply

Tryin' to sell their own tears, for they bleedin', they dry

Fuck your demons inside

I'm in need of the why

So I can summarize my life through my breathing inside

Like, oh well

I can say that I tried, yeah



Hopped in this life and I stayed for the ride

So many beautiful faces, but they vacant inside

And I'm just patiently waiting for the day I decide

This reminds me of days when I drive in L.A

I'm screamin' high to the sky with a smile on my face

Now I'm hidin' my face

I keep tryin' to trace

All the steps that I have taken to find my place

Swept out to ocean

So lonely waves here like an embrace



Now I'm lookin' at my mic like it was sent as a prophet

I used to be an atheist, but that turned me agnostic

Recently, I've been wondering if I've fuckin' lost it

See my friends from kindergarten go to rehab

That's the type of shit that makes you think back

To simpler times, blissfully ignorant minds

Before reality would ground us, we would live in the skies

And as a

And as a kid, I never thought I'd be bein' like this

And as a kid, I never thought this would even exist

I felt elusive, intangible, just steam in the mist

Now I'm wakin' up feelin' I ain't even the shit



You only look at what you got once you see that it's lost

And life's too gradual for me to believe in my sauce

Don't understand rappers braggin', "I got that paper on me"

Man, I got kids in school who doin' presentations on me

So what the fuck you really value tryin' to take that from me

To me, I'll take that over Rollies and makin' some money

Rain or sunny, I'ma do this every day, I study

And write these lyrics til' my brain is fuzzy



Damn

Like Tyler created tweets, I just capitalize

These Romans tally up my hits with the capital I's

This is a natural high

I see it comin' from afar but I'm still actin' surprised

But I ain't mastered the skies

I wrote this album with so much passion, I actually cried

They think cause I was never trappin', my rap is a lie

They think cause I'm an awkward kid, I'm invalid

As DJ Khaled, saw receivin' a platinum plaque for bein' alive



Throughout half of my album, it wasn't good enough

Shit, I mean it still isn't good enough

I'm like an active volcano

I know could erupt

But I guess I am not full enough, yeah



I swear the higher you get, that's the lower you feel

Man that's more shit you gotta do, or you won't get a deal

Man that's more shit you gotta prove, so they know that it's real

30 seconds of listenin', thinkin' you know how I feel



Yeah, this a motherfucking thesis statement

Came a long way, I cannot be complacent

Every day I wake up stressed, I have to be the greatest

And if not, then that's a day I truly feel I've wasted

Most of the pressure on my shoulders is comin' from me

So when I die, I know I left us with somethin' to leave

So when I wake up every day with someone to be, damn



I got so much shit

I've got

I've got somethin' to see

I don't fuckin' know man, shit

Hope that sounded genuine

Because I meant it