Make It Out

[Chorus]
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out

[VERSE]
I promised Tori I’d make it out
Evry note I jot promissory, Imma make it count
You can bank on it
I'm never switchin ranks on my momma
Givin thanks to the father like a child
(Yea)
Support due
Ancestors paved the way thru like asphalt
I pay homage in every single comment, with words that's resemblin incеnse in clouds
I pen lettеr like scholar turned trendsetter or bricklayer
Friends stackin paper up in thick layers
They used the loopholes to break necks
Now we mastered the index and learned to print checks
Raise the bar to get my people outta limbo
I'm raisin funds to move our elders outta rentals
They gotta pay for what they did plus incidentals
The instrumental cannot heal it all - but it’s a symbol

[Chorus]
Got my head in the clouds you'll never hold me down
If you been thru the storm you know I'm talkin bout
Found the wave in a drought, I'll make it out this town
Kickin down doors crash your party unannounced
Got my head in the clouds you'll never hold me down
If you been thru the storm you know I'm talkin bout
Found the wave in a drought, I'll make it out this town
Kickin down doors crash your party unannounced

[VERSE]
Counted out by eye shapes and last names
American bombs that made the earth shake, green cards, nail salons, and paper families
And they did it all in one take
Kids of immigrants
Who build our own ladders, duck snakes, upgraded from board game to board members
I'm so proud of my sister
No documents, now she writes her own chapters
No FAFSA but that paper in the mattress
Cash payments lookin funny on the taxes
Uncle Sam movin funny round the atlas
Consider it repayment for trauma of ancestors
I'm dancin wit my grandma at my cousin's weddin
Lookin at her, like your life is such a blessin
Matriarch, 94, still at the Y swimmin
Continue what she started, this is all just the beginnin

[Chorus]
Got my head in the clouds you'll never hold me down
If you been thru the storm you know I'm talkin bout
Found the wave in a drought, I'll make it out this town
Kickin down doors crash your party unannounced
Got my head in the clouds you'll never hold me down
If you been thru the storm you know I'm talkin bout
Found the wave in a drought, I'll make it out this town
Kickin down doors crash your party unannounced
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out
Imma make it out here one day
Imma make it out