Authentic Life

[Intro]
Woo
Haha

[Chorus]
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (Real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (Yuh)
I know what it's like in a cage and sedated, you been a slave (Chained up)
I can identify with the with the chase, desire to get the cake

[Verse 1]
You ain't designing a different way
You just in line with society's picture frame
I am defiant and trying to get in the gate
You not a lion, just trying to instigate
Death to my horrific wicked ways
Set the record straight, and submit to fate
Everybody's gotta innovate
And wonder why they lost but then resist the faith, man
When I first studied the game
I was in love with the fame
I was in love with the power of vocal to sway the emotion to try and persuade
I'm doing shows, I am on stage
I'm getting noticed like I always craved
Back of my mind, I'm trying to fake it and fearin' the fact I'ma lead 'em astray, ayy

[Chorus]
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (Real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (Yuh)
I know what it's like in a cage and sedated, you been a slave (Chained up)
I can identify with the with the chase, desire to get the cake

[Verse 2]
I ain't the kind to just sit and wait
Trying to buy me some time before I situate
But usually I just get in the way
So I just had to adapt to a different way
It used to be I had to get the praise
Always had to be within the thick of things
Like I'm Mr. King, but that finna change
Getting humbled homie, I don't miss a thing
I'm in a different zone
Don't wanna get comfortable in it though
It's despicable, if I act hypocritical and I don't really live it though
Unpredictable, when I'm spitting this written bro, I'll do it with a blistering throat
'Till I'm sick and old, in the shivering cold, just to give 'em hope (Whoa)

[Chorus]
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (Real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (Yuh)
I know what it's like in a cage and sedated, you been a slave (Chained up)
I can identify with the with the chase, desire to get the cake

[Verse 3]
I was speeding on that highway doing seventy miles (I was)
Screaming, "I'ma live life my way, ain't no gettin' me down"
Blacked out, probably shouldn't of even left the driveway, should've died mane
'Cause you know I wasn't on no heavenly route
But look at how He be protecting me, wow
I ain't gon' question it now
I stay confessin' the vow
I learned my lesson through trial
I went to war with my doubt and remembered the power
Yeah I remembered the signs, can't stop the end of the times
Death to my pride, Death to my legacy
Was it a legacy if I was left with regrets when I died?
Uh, nah

[Chorus]
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (Yuh)
I know what it's like in a cage and sedated, you been a slave (Chained up)
I can identify with the with the chase, desire to get the cake