Let Me Fly

I rock them sneakers Never sat up in the bleachers Got the heat up on my feet And you know I keep em clean Been on my grind Just like some coffee beans I stay grounded But I ain't talking about the beef (About the beef) I'm thinking bout my sophomore to my senior My demeanor was a little timid I was living just to get up in it Hit quit it, sorry if I spit it a lil vivid But I'm inflicted To just exhibit my story Talk about the shorty's Talk about the glory days I would run around with my homies Not looking for trouble Just something a little subtle To get us through the desperation Of living by the reservation We just needed separation From our family, from our parents All the stress that we was bearing It was wearing us down Making us drown Like my jump shot I still got it You don't want it It be wetter than aquatic Waves be catastrophic That boy colder than the Arctic Coming with that melodic Never lethargic type flow Here we go again Not glorifying sin But to tell you about a little native kid who could fly No really, he could really fly Who am I to tell you about this story Well he was my brother, I am the younger He taught me to love myself And to love the person that's under No matter the clutter Met you one summer I love you, now my people about to know you Fly Let a young man fly Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly Fly Let a young man fly Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly He was just a toddler tryna waddle Still up on the bottle Never had affection Man his childhood was awful Went through a lot of things that were harmful His only escape was skateboarding Basketball and marvel Growing up with zero role models Seeing the world through some perverted goggles Because of the things that he had seen, so obscene Drugs, sex and the liquor His mama sleeping with misters Long nights with his sisters Oh yeah well you get the picture Moved from building to building But none of them a real home Closest thing to a home was a boarding school dorm Because he knew the other kids could relate Yes they had blood in their family But see different his traits There was no connection Listen here the recollection Of a native kid who faced oppression Had no direction Just a need of confession And learning some lessons He was special Smiling on the outside but everyone not knowing What was going on with his mental Not knowing that he hated his life And he just wanted to die Thought he could get by All by faking a smile But it would only last for awhile His past forgotten for now Never had no role model to follow So you became your own Came from a messed up home But it was through that origin story That you matured, you have grown Then you became a baller The whole town they would just holler Every time you scored a point Man you never seemed to disappoint Sorry that you had to wear a mask And I bet you still bask in the past of the abuse But that doesn't reduce the fact That God can still use you Fly Let a young man fly Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly Fly Let a young man fly Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly From the womb to now, thoughts of being in a tomb Suicidal thoughts from midnight till noon 24 Hours of the day, gone away Mind state is in decay In your bed you lay Not knowing if God can hear you when you pray Let me tell you everything will be okay That is not a cliche And then I hear you say If my mom would stop drinking Or if my dad would come back Why nobody love me like that? Am I really that bad? They met when they were low And you a product of that I once heard that on a J. Cole rap But that is not facts You're the Kings kid You are only everything that's He says Healing broken pieces See, he was struggling to stay above the water Till the day he came across God at the alter He had access to the armor And an army of angels And a God who is faithful His past was not wasteful Your past don't define you And neither your mistakes But please keep the faith You can still be great Just because you didn't get a D1 offer You could still be a great father Your story was only written By the greatest living author Yeah, for my brother Yeah I love you Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Let me fly Let a young man fly Let a young man fly Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly Let a young man fly (Fly) Let a young man fly (Fly) Before that young man die And they all put one in the sky Let a young man fly Fly, fly, fly