It's been a long time

But i was doing right up in the wrong time

When ya merit only carried off a co-sign

You paling in comparison

And then it get embarrassing, when they ain't hold a candle to ya whole shine

...over time, funny how they go blind

Start blowing then they blowing up ya phone line

Trying to get up in the loop, nah ain't no vine

Slow climb, to the top of the ladder

Gotta find a way to get up in the popular chatter

Politicin internet poppin wit data

But that ain't what I ball 4, no walkin a batter

No free base, silver spoon

A pill, a shroom

And now man I could build the room

I got a lot of ppl now they trying to kill the mood

I feel the doom, and only love ell heal the wound

Ay

Trying to cross the road

Steady trying to find peace, like i lost the bowl

The blossom glow, but ain't nobody watch it grow

But when it bloom boom everybody got the rose

I stop to pose

While everybody moving fast forward why they can't just wait

They coulda ran in place

Instead now they getting married, or they having kids, and i can't relate

My plans at stake

And the clock still tickin, plot will thicken

I coulda ran away

But now it's too damn late, for the band to flake ,and I'm too much man to break

Pray hands in place

Realign wit the universe

Blind to the gloom, i shine when the mood occurs

Bout time i design what i do deserve

What you do up in ya mind what you do on earth

I wanted to rhyme like common sense

Did a joint wit Kweli, I ain't been common sinse

To find the prints, you gotta go and look at the tracks

The book of the facts, but i ain't trying to look in the past

I'm moving on, i'm trying to move the needle

Like I'm pushing heroin for the root of evil

My only goal is to move the people

Do it peaceful, do it legal

So i had to take time to rejuvenate

Soon or late it's gonna find what its due to make

You could hate you could hate

Get a rude awake

Through the shade i had to illuminate