Sky Minds

Ninety one
Born to a town where rain makes the day glow
Gray skies concave at angles my eyes can't know
Time flying on the wings of Galileo
Racing trying to get the pesos
Fighting streets that strive to see our drive KO'd

Wanna rise up to that bar that they tell me heaven expects of me
A bright lit shooting star, aligned in misguided trajectory
Rhyming, cooking confections
Still no food inside our belly's
Hollywood showing true lies through the message they stay projecting

They show us it's all good
Let us fall into the fiction
Living fables, still dealing with realism
Children reading between the lines, but fail to be definitions
Pretending we're uplifted
Kicks on the bleachers, still we're slippin'

Blind, looking up to the sky
Trying to see our limits go there
Wanna reach the high life
Get suspended off of low fare
Floating without a care, nope we don't even know it's there
It's like they syphoned out the mission on this road headed to nowhere


Instead of these dead ends, lets roll into life's beginnings
Lyrics endlessly growing
Lines like a fro, can't trim em'
Try and taper me out my game, it'll take a lifetime
I'm still in my prime
Rhymes ESPN
They're LIFETIME

Infinity on my side
Like Robin next to the Dark Knight at the beacon
On a bright evening
Big old light shining for no reason
Crime taking over the minds of the people that we believe in
Same people that ask me why I'm so serious can't see me cheesin'

At the clowns on the television
Artificial Hip-Hop
Big rims an get guap
Never split in's, or get a job
Artists creating hate, brings about the bane of a mixtape
We're mixed up
Why not spit some lines that try to get us straight

Pain in faces with smiles painted
Canvas stains are all free drawn
Playing this game of life
Live everyday like I'm gonna re-spawn
Freedom balanced on seesaws, I'm dying to be great
Like Legio, the Seventh Legion from the Kingdom Of Leon

Focused soul
Put forth a flow that of the open ocean
Pre-current memory events stay stored, perfect and potent
Clear as day, ain't aged a moment
I feel fourteen all over again
Speed at Mach knots in slow motion

Back in the days when no one had a whip they were rolling in
Eighth grade I had football, but no one to throw it with
We befriend our problems now
Seems if we didn't know em' then
Good Lord showed me the pen
Helped me cope through the coldest stints

Wrote to unknown hopes, addressed to figurative locations
Left my whole heart and soul in each and every salutation
Reacted fast to uncertain circumnavigations
Sketched a plan, mastered an obscure caliber of creation

Nope, no paper coming in
Just those letters stacking up
College ruled's fooling my teachers
Homework was rapping rough
School rarely moved my mood
Instead of earning all the tools to get us through
We're too steady trying to learn to be cool

My swag sucked
Baggy pants with flat cuffs
Rocking old fitted hats that didn't ever match much
Trying to fit in with the crowd, always left me left out
Couldn't fit in then, and still can barely get in now

Laugh about it, because it shaped me for the path I had to travel
Pave the way for future tracks, so we can make it off the gravel
Don't sweat the weight, he'll never put more on than you can handle
Those born to a house of pain, go and build yourself a castle

King and Queens, dealt hands that seem too hard to handle
Mad as uhh
No dad down to show a man how to grow up
Out of a stunted luck

Apollo we've got a problem
People see the need to go and drink away all their sorrows
Until they're hollow
Feet in J's, on streets too steep to follow
We're beefing'
Mid East kids ain't even got that beef to swallow
Smoking trees, steady blowing away leaves of our tomorrow
World lets pour out some peace of mind, instead of mourning over bottles

Someone told me life isn't fair
I'd say it's a rad ride
Mental state
Sad, most never grasp we're born to span that high
If we try
Elastic mind, stretch my thoughts out overtime
Time is money
Plenty pennies spent on trying to rewind

Saved up for eight months, then went and bought a dream
Lent fate a couple G's, made allotments in my sleep
Forgot about fear of time, confide in adversity
Still it hurts me to see these young stars burn out in the flurries

In a hurry to live fast
Encouraged by fast cars and bad words
Up all night kick backs, still taking naps in church
Wake up
Pick up the phone, GOD will never change his line
They say you only live once, but why not try to live twice

Spent years stretching my hands towards plans that ain't mine
Scaled the apex just to find more mountain ranges to climb
Cliff hanger in danger, but still remain there
Don't just celebrate your gifts on that day he laid in the manger

Contain the heart of an author, and all the thoughts of a painter
It's awesome
Can't complain about this sunny day
Got the rain up off me, had to let the pain blossom
This is for those days that window pane had me awake turning and tossin'

Up late, until the sun in my face
Wearing those working gloves, hoping for the moment I'd catch a break
For Heaven's sake
Seems I've learned that this life is just the prelim
Those demons at the line
Fouling, always trying to reach in

Seeking GOD's meaning off reason's hard to believe in
Maybe someday I'll breach the gates of peace the day I get to meet him
Until then, I'm still content my position
Stopping the competition, and offing my oppositions

All my composition books hold my literary inventions
Rarely got to see it live through my everyday way of livin'
But, hope is a given
So hopefully someday I will
See all of my people free before the day they read my will..

I'm up late
Looking at a mirror with no reply
The unknown brings out the fear that lies inside
Knocturnal like
Eternal night for sons who wanna rise
Top down, shades on
No sun over my eyes
Bout to go out
Show out
They know I'm out to kill it
Take a bite out of this game
Leave it bitten when I'm spittin
Itching
For intervention
Leave these menions missing
It was written
Once you're the definition
You skip all other descriptions
Life is magic depending on which of them pots you choose
Can't comprehend it man this spot is way too hot for you
There's a lot to gain but not a whole lot to lose
All these zombie rappers at dead hang
I propped the noose
Hurt and abused man you're music need something to treat it
I'm ripping sh*t up
Mr. Ripley can really believe it
I tried your tape
And to be honest I'm feeling bulimic
Take a full plate of chicken wings and feed it to vegans
They say this world is all about power and wealth
Haters are parasites
I let em' devour themselves
We all gotta go sometime
Shout out to Dale
Just tell me what chu gonna do when that hour is dealt
Run the city and pity those who stop for a breather
I'm in Dracula's castle throwing back shots of the ether
Topple the whole thing
Get thrown twenty blocks with a fever
Add a catastroph-apacalypse, couldn't bother me neither
I decease emcees like I'm Jason V
MVP is down
Tell your team to take a knee
Changed my bank
Cuz now it seems if money chasing me
You the only one out of place in the place to be
I'm too much
Bruce Willis could never die this hard
Chicks used to snicker when I'd say I wanna buy the bar
Fully charged
Doing donuts in a hybrid car
With all the doors ajar
Finally made it to a higher arc