​when the shadows came

[Intro]
"People are playing it, people are interpreting it."
"I wasn't, after all, there was no guarantee that I would be alive now."
"So you might as well be dead?"
"I might as well be dead!"
"It's about blind faith."

[Verse]
I see the sea now
Another level I'm Grade A
But where the gods lay I'ma see now
Old soul they see I'm senile
Show stopping like season finales
Even before it was even a crowd
I was feeding these niggas styles
Shorty having my seed wild
In thе land where we can't еven smile (Can't even smile)
God don't text back (Yea)
Devil on speed dial (Yea)
Can't wait for your needs and gotta work with what you can see now
And a lot of niggas who got a lot of reach but can't even reach out (Can't even reach out)
Contract breaches, contact speechless
Cognac speeches about defeat and how we can't see the bout
Bro was shot when I was like sixteen and I'm turning twenty-eight
Tryna grieve now (Yea)
I had to slow the beat down
(Wait, you had to slow the beat down?) Facts
I had to slow the beat down (Yea)
White man let the devil loose and the whole block got beat down (The whole block got beatdown)
Told the fam to stay patient but niggas is trying to eat now
Plucked from the dirt and needed soccer cleats just to keep ground
Mind in a million states, what's fifty?
My girl felt that my touch was empty like
How am I present but don't even be 'round?
Losing my mind just trying to feel colors and see sound
I don't deserve her but she down
Pain in my heart just take a real good look at me now
But it ain't about me now
It's about me holding the whole breed down (Facts)
Man cut like the cut above and wanna cut my family tree down
Yea, we branch out (Yea, we branch out)
But who really gonna go out on a limb for me now?
I ain't even rooted, my soil's dry, and the leaves brown
And my growth is up to me now
With so many things that I need now
My life thesis seep in these freestyles
Supposed to be life but I can't see how
Going too fast I had to slow the...
Had to slow the...

[Outro]
"He had to become a saint in order to become a man."
"You mean to remove himself?"
"To remove himself from the world..."