Chapter II // Refuge from all // Age(s) 16 24

Jiggy pick me up Jiggy show me love Brother know what's what Learnt to catch a bluff On faulty seed Deep it why he bleed Back on feet he tough Ain't letting History repeat Jiggy teaching me Pass it to on to friend Guided all of us Homies guide us back Badawi all jokes Omar social one Abdo on his shit Hamad sweetest soul Youssef catching dubs Mo the realest one I just watch the wind I just watch the wind Analysing fix Nudge a path correct Make sure we align If he being pussy Push em back to fight Got one life to live Best to get it right Third Kulture kids Finding place in world Stripped from innocence Brought knife to a gunfight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Brought knife to a gun fight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Why you ain't slide in the beef Why you ain't pride in defeat Why lie when it get deep Why you ain't pressure on teeth Why you ain't anxious like me Why you ain't worried like me Why you ain't fighting like me Why you ain't better than me Third Kulture kids no ties to a seat No home in a land find home in me We've grown up we ostracized Didn't know why innocence lied Running away from trials You tell me how we The poet done owe it To show this the glory of story Where faultiest seeds have grown in No guidance to lean in the lack of resources we product of stranger times no showcase to all this No modest with nothing to show with we always see lack in the focus Awareness important Awareness we passing it on Awareness to flourish Time poke on a heavy note Pause when the penny low, cause how the petty go The lands guard plenty gold Blind to the motive how your charisma hold Ain't act how we really know, culture of crabs in a bucket sough Now put aside everything you know The world tries your very soul I'ma push you to the edge come to find in there's plenty gold Brought knife to a gunfight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Brought knife to a gun fight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Why you ain't slide in the beef Why you ain't pride in defeat Why lie when it get deep Why you ain't pressure on teeth Why you ain't anxious like me Why you ain't worried like me Why you ain't fighting like me Why you ain't better than me Third Kulture kids no ties to a seat No home in a land find home in me Brought knife to a gunfight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Brought knife to a gun fight Thought it was green when we ran them red lights How could we ever shine refuge from a life Survival only when the pride right Why you ain't slide in the beef Why you ain't pride in defeat Why lie when it get deep Why you ain't pressure on teeth Why you ain't anxious like me Why you ain't worried like me Why you ain't fighting like me Why you ain't better than me Third Kulture kids no ties to a seat No home in a land find home in me