[Intro]

The future is not your past

[Verse 1]

I've tried to write this rhyme a million times

Or maybe I'm just killin' time

I'm blinded by what I had built in my mind

I'm cryin' like I spilled the milk and the wine

Everything's on fire, still, I'm tryin' to pretend I'm feelin' fine

And I've always been observant

Curiosity tryin' to learn what's behind the curtains

And I'm certain insecurity's the perfect encouragement

Even brain surgeons have a limited purpose

I saw the writing on the wall when it was written in cursivе

Look, I can't imagine I could spell it any clearеr

If I bluntly tried to tell you how we got from there to here

Its atmosphere and I'm surprised that we survived another year

To speak through the speakers it keeps creepin' nearer

To the day I disappear to the other side of that mirror

I guess my voice is all that I got to offer

So you gotta make a choice to avoid your own obstacles

Probably feels powerful, huh?

You can poison all the water on this planet

But you can't put sand in the hourglass

Your future is not your past

[Chorus]

But your future is not your past

You can try to follow the path, or you can draw your own map

But your future is not your past

But your future is not your past

How could it all collapse if it was built to last?

Your future is not your past

[Verse 2]

I always thought I was an ugly child

I still remember the struggle of tryin' to love my smile

Without a promise to my pocket, just the words I compiled

And whatever else they got up in my personal file

Just show me how it works while I work to make it worth my while

I'm not embarrassed to admit when I considered myself

A supporting character, I barely cared about the script

And now my kids got me starin' at my fridge

Like I better go out and produce a bag of asparagus

Don't wanna be a failure as a parent again

Don't nobody wanna die broke and in debt

Gotta fly towards the sun, but stay close to the nest

And I ain't sayin' nothin', but I hope it connects

And it doesn't really matter whether or not you ever open the text

No stress, just growth and progress

And I imagine that I'm way far past my halfway

This graveyard is like an ashtray

We generate mistakes until the final escape

I'm tryin' to make footprints in the sand of this hourglass

Your future is not your past

[Chorus]

But your future is not your past

We try to learn how to adapt, we want tomorrow intact

Your future is not your past

But your future is not your past

Until I finally vanish into the vast, I wrote my own raps

And my future was not my past

[Outro]

Your future was not my past