[Verse 1: AWKWORD]

I start off with a bang, boom, better than life

Like your pharmacist finally got your medicine right

Until you start to overdose, on the pleasure and pain

And your spine starts tingling, you’re feeling a little strange

Now you brush it off your shoulders, take a deep breath

It’s better than being sober, puffing up your chest

But your heart beats through it, you're starting to act foolish

Your head is now spinning, you’re about to really lose it

Elusive this lucidness, you float like a butterfly

And every track mark's another note of your lullaby

But you take chances, cause that’s what being a man is

Plus it’s romantic, when you ask God for answers

Please, he'll never say hello to you

I’m the truth and the question, I flow through you

I’m your friends and your family, who don’t know you

I’m that picture of sanity, I won't show you

[Hook: AWKWORD with Ess Vee, Jay Daniels & Mark Deez] x2

I’m your frat party, blow it up your nose, my son

In your Ed Hardy, pour it, tilt, get drunk

Let’s get it started, light it, smoke, get dumb

I’m The Requiem, shoot it up ya vein, get numb

[Verse 2: SoulStice]

I’m the answer, I provide a sense a security

I got all y'all convinced of my purity

Give me what you got, all of it preferably

I might give it back when I’m done as a courtesy

I’ll numb the pain, no ques', that’s a certainty

I’m the man, Monday, you’ve never heard of me

Tuesday, you will search for me, tryna purchase me

Can’t find me, turn the place burgundy

And I was blowing your phone last night

In fact I am why you ain't come home last night

I’m why you lost the J-O, why you gotta lay low

Getting out is over your head, like a halo

Stained white shirt, holes in jeans

First one’s free, or so it seems

You can pay me in hopes and dreams

Now gon' drop em in, like a coke machine

[Hook] x2

[Verse 3: Ess Vee]

Just call me a pill, I dissolve in your system, right

I’m keepin it real, you need me I’m your rhythm, like

A needle in a vein owned by a fiend he feels the pain

Whether I’m going in or going out you need me to stay sane

Look, I’m your dealer’s dream but your neighbor’s nightmare

I could make you lean, while you’re standing right there

Now, could you just imagine

That I could change your face up, like you running for a pageant

Don’t try to understand it, the self-inflicted damage

You mad cause you can’t ban it, you can’t shake me like a habit

See I’m whiter than a rabbit, or greener than your local park

Now roll me up pass me around make sure your lighters spark

You go from light to dark, they say the freaks come out at night

You need me just to start and now to take it down, right

I got your back, see, I told you not to frown

I’m here to lift you up I can also take you down

[Hook] x2

[Verse 4: CuzOH! Black]

I need you, I need you, I need you in the morning

How the hell else would I get my day started?

Really feeling the neglect that you showing me

But it’s money power respect that you owing, see

That’s all I ask for, problems seem to down pour

Every time I elevate I’m closer to my downfall

My love for you escalating yet still I need to have more

Don’t step on me like sidewalk, promise I’ll bring back more

I’m at best raw, I can cause war

I’m The Requiem, like I’m AWKWORD

This is absurd, how could you quit me?

I keep you away from pain, away from shame

The rush in your veins, sure cost a little change, damn

Ain’t I worth it? why the attitude change, damn?

I was certain, me and you was perfect

Couldn’t I take you higher while hitting you until it hurt

[Hook] x2