retrogress

By Chris Wright

On CANDID

Released on April 1, 2022

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One step forward, two steps back

I’m too tired to just relax

Slow step in the fire, it’s burning my back

Watching my bedroom turn into ash

Coughing my lungs out, bleeding out cash

Always been alone, always been a outcast

You would hit my phone, and I’d never hit back

Always kept quiet, I’ll always outlast

I can see the fire burning in the background, kinda wanna say something but I don’t

I just keep my mouth closed, eyes wide, everybody choking on smoke

And that’s all I got, till it take me too

Everything’s ash, and it sticks like glue

Stuck in my hair, feel it down to the roots

And the gunpowder snare hitting way too soon

One step forward, two steps back

And I'm still on track, i'm still on track

One step forward, two steps back

And I'm still on track

Can you take all my timе off the clock

Trynna run it back, skim a little off the top

Evеrything a rerun, I’m stuck inside the box

It feel like my brain never know when it should stop

But it just shut down, crashed on the 101

Really just the basic shit ain’t no fun

I ain’t got no life plan, that was off the jump

Now I’m really swimming, waiting, pushing through the ones

Always been a zero, stayed hella divided

Stuck up on the fence, Never knowing what my side is

Even when my friends flew high, I was gliding

They escaped the sun, I burned up in the silence

One step forward, two steps back

And I'm still on track, i'm still on track

One step forward, two steps back

And I'm still on track

Stuck inside my head again, looking for a way out

Think I let the devil in, he fucking with the layout

Messing up my feng shui, tearing up the lake house

Drowned in a river bed, sleep coming in waves now

Everything a movie dog, gotta let it play out

They tell me to let it go, but they never say how

Double lock the cups and the blunts in the safe house

I think I need a way out

Check up on me, if we ain’t talk in awhile

Been feeling lonely, like back when I was child

I retrogress pretty slowly

And I step once in a while

And if its, three dots then I’m working on it

And if its, green text then I’m working on me

And if it’s, No response then I’m probably in a full sprint

Running to the back of my mind