Calypso

[Verse 1]
Got off the phone with the regular road dogs
At home, they be killing some business like it was roll call
I put my cards on the table, see what they telling me
The odds are failing me
Put em on paper like a memory plenary
It's about to be documentary
Every page reading like the letters from a sanctuary
I got a feeling I can't put into words
Super sensory like getting healing from the herbs
Let's kick it on the curb like elementary school
It kinda gets to me like seeing parliamentary fools
Mind loops like a record playing far away from home
From a blurring horn
And I'm getting shivers from the cold
But baby girl ain't feeling all herself today
I say a prayer to the Lord and rest to take the pain away
He said: "Boy you trying too hard, it's under my control
You trying to carry the weight like take the burden on your soul"
So I take to this pen like it was therapy pills
The next thing on my mind is that energy bill
See, I'm indebted in ways deeper than the paper credit
Working hard for me to get though I got it as a gift, cut the edit
[?] I'll tell you where I'm headed
Trying to earn the merit in a dark alley where the candlestick
Tring to numb the pain, so self-medicating
To a rainbow with the jar, go play the destination
I met this dude, I asked him if he's ever lived
Half a life or a decade, surviving on a sedative
The wind carried his name when he heard the city whisper
His hand held a glass of the liquor with the tincture
Smoke filled rooms and the eyes in a haze
Moments passing quicker than an adolescence in a phase
Car speed passed, light blurred through the window
Rain pool on the pavement
So you walk as you tiptoe
Overcoat, subzero, stares in calypso
I'm posing in limbo like waiting for train info
I'm seeing strangers but I'm looking for my keen folks
Glittering shoes and shiny suits with a pin stroke
It's all I see, they never earned it with a single stripe
But some lives got took with a stroke of a single strike
Earn your due but you can't afford to pay one
How does it work? No one knows
When your day comes

[Chorus]
Figure out what it is that you want
Is it life of reward or being up at the front?
Or you wanna be loved?
Or you wanna be made?
Make some ways to get paid?
So the people remember
Do you wanna be great?
Figure out what you want
Is it life of reward or being up at the front?
Or you wanna be loved?
Or you wanna be made?
Make some ways to get paid?
So the people remember

[Verse 2]
It's more deceiving when people are selling knowledge
'Cause it's currency and you're the buyer of the polished product
Non the wiser but believe in your season of dire moments
Glow dosage, price tag slow and potent
Rock harder than a landed comet
I'm like when Harper plays a melody to Ripley out of bondage
Hardships the hardest if I'm honest
If you held up in a scene as a shooter in a hostage
Hard to judge the character behind the look
Only life make your nerve whiplash like a catapult
In the hood there's a house where the opium cooks
The cops know it, the landlord is where the money get booked
I'm on the curb on a rainy day
Reminiscing on jump shot, a pivot, a block and a fade away
Street ballers of a different kind, a joker without a face
Just a ghost with a different guise

[Chorus]
Figure out what it is that you want
Is it life of reward or being up at the front?
Or you wanna be loved?
Or you wanna be made?
Make some ways to get paid?
So the people remember
Do you wanna be great?
Figure out what you want
Is it life of reward or being up at the front?
Or you wanna be loved?
Or you wanna be made?
Make some ways to get paid?
So the people remember