A Stranger’s Reflection (feat. Lauren K.)

[Mr. SOS]
(I hate mornings, and I hate mondays)

In the bathroom mirror, staring at the face in it while a candle is flaring
Unfamiliar with the facial expression
Like a stranger's reflection
From a parallel dimension
“Who is that?”
Eyes red like depression
Looking like a dad I never had
So many questions I got
Unsure if I should heed his suggestions, like
Who's this old man trying to feed me corrections?

I'm not a small child
I don't need your aggression
He said "But you need some direction
Every second is another blessin'
Count 'em and remember
Knowledge is a weapon
Adolescence is more than an adult lesson
And these moments, some of them seem harmless
Some of them seem wrong so we become despondent
Some of us dishonest, never be this, promise.."
Meanwhile I'm just like, is he done talking?
Excuse me, old soul
Tell me something I don't know
There's plenty things that we don't control
The grand design. Sometimes the stars align
Leaving one strugglin' inside of a borderline paradigm
So where am I?
"Where am I?"
He said at the same moment like
"Hold up, something strange is occurring
Something's wrong with the current and what could be worse
You're the right person in the wrong universe."

I let that marinate as he evaporated & went away
Wondering who was I talking to anyway & what's in my mary jane
Could it be an apparition or hologram from outer or inner space
Sent to demonstrate what's in my fate
But who would generate such a message anyway?
Investigate
Seek and you find
Reach and you climb
Sleep and you die
Try to read the truth between the lines

[Lauren K.]
Why you giving it up
You think it wouldn't be tough oh oh
You're just waiting for luck
It's never enough
So why are you giving it up (don't don't don't don't stop)
This moment's all that you got (listen, listen, listen)
There is no future no past
Now is all there ever was

[Mr. SOS]
"Going where we going where we going where we going"
From the bottom to the top and back again
From the present to the future and past again
Everything is everything, that's what Lauryn said
"Going and we going and we going and we going"
From the bottom to the top and back again
From the present to the future and past again
Now is all there ever was, that's what Lauren said

I hold my head thinking of the possibilities
Try to surround myself with strictly positivity
Somehow I feel this universe wasn't meant for me
So now I'm trying to build a portal to my destiny
Maybe in an alternate I'll be more positive
Maybe if I find a better me than I can swap with him
Never mind the effects until we're causing it
All we want is to see the other side, so let's get on with it