[Verse 1]

Tis often the rain calms our souls

Open the glands, relieving the earth

Lately language been less a gift more a curse

Less a house and more of a hearse, and what’s worse

It’s detrimental to my offsprings birth

It’s destroying me as I write this verse, we need to breath

Loosen the rigid mind we use to read

Start to look out for the world we leave our seeds

We are trees burning off all of our leaves, can’t you see

As the riming recedes we raise the seas? Believe

Power precedes our needs, I put my life in check

Trying to get up out of debt, momma wants me to succeed

I just want to earn respect, I just wanna to catch my dreams

No time for me to reflect, I’mma shimmer, I’mma gleam

Finger tips are shooting beams, rain streaming down my face

In the windows reflection, thinking ‘bout all the women

Who gave too much affection, how could I open up my mind

To someone else when all my passion’s in the music and I’m focused on my self?

The water drops slow, my soul is at ease

My body floats high, synchronized with the breeze

Falling down to my knees, I’m waiting for God to show me something

Can’t believe I’ve spent my whole life so reluctant

Well fuck it, if I fail I’m doubling down

My mind’s too big to wear a diamond studded vanity crown

When rain is heavy you don’t drown, you climb to get higher ground

So I’m climbing until I summit the sound where my liberations found, up

[Hook]

Cleanse my soul and wash away my name

I need to believe in something more than money

Free me from these chains, I’m standing in rain

Above the clouds, amongst the stars I wade

For peace comes dropping slow, dropping slow, slow

I know that we need love

I know that we need some pain

I know that life can hurt you for no reason

But if you don’t know the meaning know that seasons change

I know that we need love

I know that we need some strife

When you start to let the world in, it’s just water to your skin

Absorb your life, your life

[Verse 2]

Walking the streets alone, these pavement streets I roam

Looking for answers to questions that are written bold

Pacing quick and hastily, it’s hard to find complacency

When you grow up in a country that's founded off of slavery

Man, when we gon’ compensate that? When we gon’ right our wrongs?

When we gon’ see that it’s always been men who write the psalms?

Look through the eyes of the oppressed and change your vision

Thought I feel in love and found commitment even though I didn't, now I’m

Getting women, different women, in different positions

I know I’ve made bad decisions but lately I can’t admit it

It seems that the ripest fruit in life is always deemed forbidden

Well maybe we need religion to free us from all the sinning

So Jews, Muslims and Christians, apologize, be forgiven

And realize money isn’t the key to life, it’s a prison

The key to life is the wisdom in seeing pain as efficient

It’s when rain falls upon us we realize we are livin’

Let me live, Lord

[Hook]

Cleanse my soul and wash away my name

I need to believe in something more than money

Free me from these chains, I’m standing in rain

Above the clouds, amongst the stars I wade

For peace comes dropping slow, dropping slow, slow

I know that we need love

I know that we need some pain

I know that life can hurt you for no reason

But if you don’t know the meaning know that seasons change

I know that we need love

I know that we need some strife

When you start to let the world in, it’s just water to your skin

Absorb your life