Patience

[Verse]
Been here for some years finding form in the function
Tried a couple ears to relate to my conscience
I felt a reduction, strings upon assumption
Still I knew becoming was a caterpillar's summit
Thinking days when I performed
I was poor, hungry and alone
Streaming in your home
Knowing ends wouldn’t meet at all
First quarter overstayed
Second quarter overplayed
Drinking bottles knowing my rent wasn't paid
Turning favors to energy
On stage like Tennessee
Inking dope like itinerary
Antidotе my identity
Since the M.O. was guillotinе
Cut 'em off for the chemistry
Keep the vein in my venom please
I don’t know nothing less
I don't look for no enemy
But don't push my regret
You don't know who you wanna be
I don't know if I'm that
I just know I just wanna be all I want when I can
Nothing more than a man

[Chorus]
I've been risking and running this low
Got my weight on my shoulders
Feel I owe it to myself and mama to show up
Lately I just only feel the pressure to blow up
Looking for closure
Looking around, it gets cold
Lover, give me composure
Everybody wanna see your face on that poster
I just wanna keep whatever came with the flow
Whatever came with the soul that I gave
Searching, searching pages
Searching, searching pages for some patience
Searching, searching daily
So demotivated for today
Searching, searching pages
Searching, searching pages for some patience
Searching, searching daily
So demotivated

[Verse 2]
I can smell the sage full of spirits incited
I can feel a change coming over the crisis
I can see the rays shining over the fight left
I can hear the pain coming down with the frightened
Made in my likeness
The candles enlightened
Made in my likeness
In the war with the lightning
Triggers and tyrants
Playing God with the righteous
Figures and sirens going off your devices
I can tell the truth wasn't made for the right skin
Always gotta prove it, do it better than Mike did
No matter how we move
Black women surviving
Femmes and queers and every Other divided
A tribal wedge in every other assignment
Primal fears of never feeling united
It’s these tears that got me coping with vices
It’s these tears that got me knowing what life is

[Chorus]
I've been risking and running this low
Got my weight on my shoulders
Feel I owe it to myself and mama to show up
Lately I just only feel the pressure to blow up
Looking for closure
Looking around, it gets cold
Lover, give me composure
Everybody wanna see your face on that poster
I just wanna keep whatever came with the flow
Whatever came with the soul that I gave
Searching, searching pages
Searching, searching pages for some patience
Searching, searching daily
So demotivated for today
Searching, searching pages
Searching, searching pages for some patience
Searching, searching daily
So demotivated