Vanilla Skies

[Che Noir]
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It’s all about the way you think
What your mindset is
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I was a kid with curly hair
Wit a granny that was in her thirties
She used to tell me ‘girl enjoy your youth, why you in a hurry?’
Was coming home late but in the morning I was dippin’ early
‘Cause me and mom’s couldn’t see eye to eye, made my vision blurry
Play fighting, running with boys, I was kinda rugged
My first fistfight was with a boy ‘cause he tried fuckin’
Stacking pennies of my thoughts to a dollar inside a bucket
This game’s a coin toss, but it’s all just a dime a dozen
On the road, doing shows, my phone rung, niggas saying that my pops is missing
He still battle with drugs and I hate it
I only worry about my mom ‘cause she in love and is jaded
But she don’t tell mе ‘cause she think that ima judge hеr for staying
Making the same mistakes over and over shit so robotic
We standing by yo side but it can get overcrowded
Things we never talk about I keep my lips closed about it
They call me a sneaky child cause I just tiptoe around it
Last year I caught myself quitting music, too many politics
And plus the money slow and they never give me acknowledgment
My husband said ‘with all due respect, you don’t sound patient
You gon send yo first five years setting yo foundation
You just on year four
Your time coming, just stay prepared for it’
Was holding all the cards but now niggas wanna declare wars
Tell me stay on my job but it’s hard to feel employed
I got it all from blood, sweat and these tears of joy
When I was just a rugrat sneaking and watching porn
Oblivious to this life that’s the reason that I matured
Made cousins spend the night on the weekends when I was bored
Not enough beds, so we was sleeping right on the floor
I feel like I could change the world by the way that I think
I tell my friends it’s systematic this industry training sheep
You can hear it in the music, they tryna erase us clean
Then I ask them what they think and they tell me ‘it ain’t that deep’
Damn

Cruising through this city with dreams underneath these vanilla skies
Cruising through this city with dreams underneath these vanilla skies
Cruising through this city with dreams underneath these vanilla skies
Cruising through this city with dreams underneath these vanilla skies