Breakthrough - Intellectual

[Intro: Rita Braver & Heather Mac Donald]

The exhibit presents graffiti in the context of art. You're suggesting that this isn't art

It is vandalism, it is an appropriation of the public's space or somebody's private property without permission. And nobody has a right to do that

[Bridge: James Bay]

I'm halfway gone

Sleepless, I'm battle worn

You're all I want

Bring me the dawn

[Verse 1: Abstract]

I been up for five days tryna make the grind pay

We just made a project in a month, word to Blulake

"Neverland" just hit a milli, tell me why I'm underrated

Lookin' like we did it but I swear to God we haven't made it

I'm still spittin' to a mic that's in the corner of my room

My parents asking where the money at, I said it's coming soon

Hope to God I told the truth

Hope y'all got me on the move, there's only so much I can do

I ain't all about the money but you know I gotta live

I release my shit for free there's only so much I can give

And this about to be the ninth project that I did

Y'all can hate, but hope you know I done the work to get to this

Good to see us doing numbers

Word to Blulake, Craig, and Drumma

They ain't ready for us

'Bout to turn this to our summer

If they sleepin', snatchin' up alarms

Pluggin' in the numbers

Why they blind to the shit?

I don't know, I Stevie Wonder

[Chorus: James Bay]

I need the sun to break

You've woken up my heart

I'm shaking, oh

My luck could change

Been in the dark for weeks

And I've realized you're all I need

I hope that I'm not too late

I hope I'm not too late

[Verse 2: Abstract]

I'm only tryna live off what I live for

I know that's the damn dream; I know I don't need more

'Cept for another heart that I can call my own

Put that shit together, I think I could make a home

'Cause I put these words together like it's all I've ever known

But I'm yet to get the cheddar that I know that I been owed

I do this 'cause I love it, you know it keeps me alive

And always known I wasn't made to work a nine to five

Nah, I'm more a nine to nine

Dreamed about it back in '99

Back seat of my parents ride

Thinkin' music was the life

Hear a couple notes, somethin' inside you comes alive

Never had to learn it, it's universal to the mind

What a ride

Now I'm moving to a universal grind

Never lied

Couple people hate me for a couple lines

I don't mind

Seen the way I'm making hooks and throwing lines, doing fine

These days I got bigger fish to fry

[Outro: James Bay]