Manic

[Intro]
Statik Selektah (Statik Selektah, Statik Selektah)
Every single word

[Verse 1]
Staying optimistic is exhausting
Ventin' feel like bitchin', like I'm whining
Circle visions and I'm caught in it, often
Not gon' be effect, more like the cause
Know they order tall, but the measure not how low you get, but how far you can fall from
They can stay lost if I lost 'em
Everything I say is dual like exhaust
Level headed nigga, mind swimming, all minute
The limits picked up aggression, identity like thе water
Speaking of it, striving to stay above it, povеrty like a mind state, still tryna recover
Trying not to be plummet, thought of it, tie my stomach
Leaving the way you came in, with nothing, somebody love me
Want another and another, my sister and my brother
The nigga that don't know me from Joe Blow, I could touch him with a song
I remind 'em, they never really alone
I'm going against conviction, correct me, I'm never wrong from intention
You might just lack a dimension up in your soul
Cuttin' my dope shit with your energy
Steppin' on it and twistin' it, selling that for your benefit
But control of opinion, don't want me as no enemy 'cause you gon' have to finish me
Shit'll go to infinity like a fifty beef
I hold a grudge like holding my Hennessy
I never blacked out, running cash out, they said don't fall for that
Capped out, niggas maxed out, where my ballers at?
All I ever needed was some paper, nigga all facts
Can't deny it, that would mean to give it all back

[Pre-Chorus]
Take my hand
Never be alone, 'long as I'm with you
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
They say my ego crashing down

[Chorus]
What if I told you I know the way?
But it go against everything that you know
I can see you infatuated with pain
You don't love it, then why you won't let it go?
I know people identify with that word
Don't take my advice over some, don't
You might think I'm being too harsh but
This what it sound like when I'm alone

[Verse 2]
Never needed much, but in the same breath a nigga wanted everything
Be content, think abundantly
You could never be lonely, never be hungry
Be worthless and not deserving of some kind of peace
I'm protecting mine by any means
I be where the vibes at
This ain't for yo' mind though, this shit for your mindset
This a different dialect
This ain't no get back lyrical pissing contest
Even though I rhyme best, beside that
Fo' past 4:40 a.m., a baby born in a poverty from the evils of infancy, needed purpose
Feeling helpless, invincible, and that same same stream of conscious that I adopted kept me further from the surface
Out of balance, I know we grow from challenge
I know the place that ego take you to fill the valor
They say the opposite of they soul, mind dying of thirst
Rewind me back to 2009, I left the earth
Been blinded, what could be present time to live the curse
Remind me to stop watching my life play in reverse
Like mine gotta be cursed, find what I deserve
A lion says I deserted the shine
Painted the version of me in the worst light
Ironically, so it served they failure to make it seem like I'm wired, didn't work
Father fuck 'em
They gon' be used to be useless
The side of love we blind to in the truest sense
Bend the rules for the homie and they gon' play they self out of position
This for the niggas that forgot to miss me
Out necessity of often being self-sufficient
Shit I'm the only one who need to see the vision

[Chorus]
What if I told you I know the way?
But it go against everything that you know
I can see you infatuated with pain
You don't love it, then why you won't let it go?
I know people identify with that word
Don't take my advice over some, don't
You might think I'm being too harsh but
This what it sound like when I'm alone

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
(This what it sound like when I'm alone)
This what it sound like when I'm alone