[Verse 1]

My cursed brain makes me lose face, I need space

The negative thoughts can often have me outpaced

Touch base with the small victories please

Remind me that I'm driving and these are my keys

Make sure your daily standards are reasonable please

Don't throw yourself against it, chip away with ease

Meditate on your choices and make yourself understood

And never take advice from anybody eating good

They only wanna keep you down, keep your nose in it

Spitting sweet nothings with privilege, they glow in it

Wanna help you flower in the game I rose in it

Lucky if the plan of one day has got goals in it

Lucky if the plans of one week get finished

Call me slow but I still feel pretty gifted

Ecstatic getting out of bed at all, yeah

Our notion of progress is so involved

Your haters will always be the same and rude

And don't quit your job because some EDM dude

Said so, that it's the only way you're gonna know

It's helping you eat, not keeping you from your goals

[Chorus]

You want to ball, it's only natural

You're doing too much, but what's actual

Your mind reels how do you get that deal

Trying to be like the people who ain't even real

Say I want to ball, it's only natural

I'm doing too much, but what's actual

My mind reels how do I get that deal

Wanna be like the people who I know ain't real

[Verse 2]

If your skills slightly increase that's progress

If you brush your teeth at least that's progress

Approach an argument with tact that's progress

You can say Mello's got your back that's progress

I need a progress evaluation

From all my people in all nations

Who fascinate me with imagination

You're so creative you deserve congratulation

And relaxation to preserve your situation

When I lose patience and start pacing

My brain burns time, breaks down equations

For why I'm not amazing, erasing my confidence

Replace it with nonsense oh thanks that's just the opposite

If this sounds like a common concept

Then I guess we partners in how we break down our own progress

I want you to take two deep breaths

Then run over the steps of how you got here

All of those years and the challenges they held

All problems solved by nobody but yourself

Lending help to your friends and fam, god damn

You're making just as much progress as you can

[Chorus]

You want to ball, it's only natural

You're doing too much, but what's actual

Your mind reels how do you get that deal

Trying to be like the people who ain't even real

Say, I want to ball, it's only natural

I'm doing too much, but what's actual

My mind reels how do I get that deal

Wanna be like the people who I know ain't real

[Outro]

And fuck all the people verified on Twitter saying you have to quit your job and make ten beats a day or you ain't shit

And fuck the people who work you too hard at your job and say it's because you're passionate and they can't keep you away from your desk

And fuck the people at your family reunion or barbershop or whatever who don't think you're a musician because you don't play a fucking instrument

That was never the definition you shortsighted fucks

Peace