[Verse 1]

They always said there would be days like this

Caught up in the days, your life you miss

Makes you feel so old

Time keeps slippin' and you can't grab hold, now

Now it just won’t stop till you ain't sure what to do with the time you got

Those are the times you stop

Say, look at what happened and the life it brought

Remember sittin' in the backseat listenin' to Lennon

Only music that I knew of until I was seven

Around the time, started messin' with the grand piano

Never as good as my mother, man, I never hold a candle

Plus she made me sit through all the lessons

Teachers go through all my questions

Got older, graduated to electric strings

I was in the jet, instrument a shiny thing

Two years later, hopin' for that drum set

Move down to Jersey, to the wild—got a basement

When I would play, the whole place shook

Mom was yellin', father wasn't stressin' while she tryna cook

Started competin' and skiin', dropped all the music

Gave a girl my heart; it hit hard 'cause it got abused quick

That's what brought me back to beat, back on my feet

And now we do this

[Pre-Chorus]

Built up in a heartbreak, asking, "How much can a heart take?"

Yeah, you can hate, follow life's template, great

But this is what the heart make

Said, "Doctor, can you stop the pain?"

She said, "It seems you got something to say, so let it out

You speak from a point of view the world gonna need right now"

[Chorus]

The winds will blow, tears will fall, oh

We're shaped by it all

The stars shine brightest when the moon's gone dark

When the loudest silence meets them brightest star

[Verse 2]

Twenty-four seven, you know it, you do it

Man, you know that you're music

That's a life and a career I'm seeing you confuse quick

That's some friends I'm sayin' we both know you 'bout to lose quick

But you about to do fit

But not with who you feel with

You were 'bout to dive into the blue they never deal with

Always saw them Mellow Yellow shinin', that's the real shit

What you about to give is the truth

Another life bound to the booth

Picked it up to kill, but love addiction

Got addicted to that new prescription

Won't you listen while I try to grip it, agh?

'Scuse me, hearing a lotta Kendrick

Call Cue, Chance, god dammit, they really did it

Like to be remembered as someone who did get it

Teach lessons through the fame

Make moves with the mere presence, I mean

Can I live that dream?

To what I think I got to try to switch these scenes

If they got my album open learnin' from that screen

Talkin 'bout the realest, knowin' the A's that team

A pipe dream, now I light a pipe and might be seen

Made for this while my peers tryna fight these things

Thought's friendly fire when they tryna fight these kings

Kept running back the past, bringing me back home

All I know

[Chorus]

The winds will blow, tears will fall, oh

We're shaped by it all

The stars shine brightest when the moon's gone dark

When the loudest silence meets them brightest star