Keep The Change

[Intro]
Yea
If you wanna be all technical about shit

[Verse 1]
So if I'm Ryan McMahon
Then who the fuck is IAME? Who's Lame?
These aren't multiple personalities, they're just names
The first one I was given, the second one I created
Guess you could say it kinda has a deeper meaning
Symbolic of my life, but I don't need it
(Call me Lame)
You could call me what you'd like
My whole life's about output
Product's what I give you
See if you begin to understand it's just an outlet
Machine's plugging in to charge up their batteries
Outsource, downsize, and cut human salary
Technological uprise, ingenious minds read binary digi-design
We reaching so high, well we
Don't see how vanity is a God, I'd rather stay low
And be a phantom of this opera, broken halo
With presence acknowledged
I'm no Asher Roth
I hate taking classes to pursue what rap hasn't offered

[Hook]
Hats off to anyone who's doing this and making change
But ain't making enough change to change 'em
Too much of one thing is dangerous, even change
Keep the change at a natural speed
Or get knocked off your ass and you'll see
Where testing your limits might actually lead
I'd rather be consumed by passion and greed
I'd rather blaze through these tracks than these trees

[Verse 2]
But I'm an addict, chasing a dragon
And we both flying, man
I'm in my prime like Sape and Luckyiam
And lucky I am, no Lady Gaga
But I gotta poker face when I look at my hand
Like Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and Common
Minus the A-List status and the blood diamonds
But I'm on this lonely island and it's no parody
Yea, I'm on a boat and I'm sinking with no air to breathe
Literally in over my head, no gills
I'm so chill, party yo, in hundred dollar nose bills
Here's to the life until coke kills
Find me with a heart of ice in a pose still
Clutching cold steal if I'm broke
Still slide this note to the bank teller, (Bitch!) fill up the bags
I'll throw you on your ass like you're Jazz and I'm Philip Banks
You feeling every kick Smoke has, but he ain't [?] blanks

[Hook]
At the end of the day, I'm just thankful to be doing this
I made some change, but not enough change to change me
Too much of one thing is dangerous, even change
Keep the change at a natural speed
Or get knocked off your ass and you'll see
Where testing your limits might actually lead
I'd rather be consumed by passion and greed
I'd rather blaze through these tracks than these trees

[Verse 3]
But I'm pretty sure if I didn't smoke as much weed as I do
I'd have a nervous breakdown and be seen on the news
All you'd hear is screams as I shoot
Blue swarms of police in blue suits and news crews
I give a fuck, you can think what you choose to
Keep the change, I don't need to change your mind
What was once a statement is now just a name
The truth is I am not me anymore and who's to blame
Guess the joke's on them, but the jokes might end
You feel bolts of lightning or something like sparks
When I jump right in, Joe Biden my time
Put the M in front of VP and that title is mine
More exciting than lies, scandals, crewmate rivalry
(Yo, your name kinda looks like Lame)
Yea, and here's the irony
I retired IAME cause it's just a name
The truth is I am not me anymore, I'm just Lame

[Hook]
Cause that's the side effects of minimum wage
I've made some change
But not making enough change has changed me
Too much of one thing is dangerous (especially change)
I rushed the change and look what happened to me
You don't want to have this happen to you
It will knock you on your ass when it do
And it will laugh at you too, laugh right in your face
And that's your moment of clarity, selfish douchebag