In This World

Like it was yesterday I could kiss this time away The product The nursery Part of the perfectly Practically Grown on this home path Paved on chasing days Trapped reading the same maps Terminally caged Dropped from a bed Before my legs touched the earth Head to the grave I could never see the future But knowing our time is short Back Racing the rats Pacing the laps All this love for older brother When his face on the tracks Mother I'd never throw him under Without facing the facts Take out the trash You think this life will wait for yo ass? Never complacent At-last I'll raise my glass To the ceiling Ends justify the means Never my dreams Respect will be earned Never sold or redeemed Huh Never fall victim To the swords that I swing at my chest Triple threat I'm taking souls When I follow through Unapologetic Cuz' I grew up 02 Because I grew up 02 Without a soul around Leather bound Let's watch the dust settle Whistling kettle Cracked door Empty home Ghost town Where's the laughter? Where the love? While the sun beats down Roll dice Waste life Like I never could do Ghost in machine Never let me fall through Is Life guns and butter? Out the gutter Old friends Same moves? Checkmate Broken legs Clipped wings At the neck No respect Huh Expecting there will be no resurrection I always liked my knights for first impressions The rules are Locked in my sites Pay your dues Ask the question that bites Dogs barking at the fool Who never learned how to fight The raw Renaissance Rigged till I die Rugged and raw sentences Riddled through my mind I breath living death What you least expect Let's be honest Yo take this mic before I vomit Sometimes you win Sometimes you fold In this world You never know It's kind of like The rat to the race Or like the tracks we trace Moving state to state Well I know Renaissance man Is it you? All I promised as kid Never thought it'd come true Nah Now I know you won't ever understand Kai where is the truth? Why tell a lie When the world knows you Why sleep in When the sun goes by? Nah These chains never touched My love for life One mans king In the valley of the blind Cuz y'all Love the sunshine I love the rain I'm living days that I can't complain Been educating on What this world around us Might be trying to say Take your fist step out of the shade This rebirth is To never let them tell you what your worth is Be the love that gratifies the meaning and the purpose Wont ratify the hate No matter what state Giving back what I take Rakin' scraps from my plate Kiss of death in whine grapes Why stay? When this life can migrate Never thought I'd end up Getting lost in city scapes Bitter tab of acid taste Leaving life back home beneath the waves My mistake I was always told To let a stranger eat cake Leave the gates wide open Keep a foot up on the break My life aside If you tend Or you take Why cut the cord To learn we hop the same gates? Sometime you win Sometimes you fold In this world You never know It's kind of like The rat to the race Or like tracks we trace Moving state to state, yeah I know I know Sometime you win Sometimes you fold In my life I've come to know Only that my past mistakes Can state the tracks I trace Can't take em back Now I know.