Once in a While - Intellectual

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Take me higher yeah

Ey ey

It's DeeZystep yeah

Yes yes check it out

VERSE 1

Once in while I medicate to meditate

Other times kill the sorrow by hollowing out a bottle

Good times what I preach and I practice

Fact is

Live life to the fullest is my motto

Cuz you never know when your end’s gonna come

So make the earth a better place

For your daughters and your sons

Contemplatin’

Constant displacement

‘Til concentration

Is broke by what they said to me

When I was of the tender age of three

Telling me blank faces write full pages of history

Made me think

If everyone is unique

We all could come together

And share a single link

But the world is cold

I wish I could act so bold

I try to always smile

People say your act is old

A proactive soul

I can’t help but try to reach

Out to the starving souls

And feed ‘em with my speech

But words only do so much

Actions speak louder

The loudest of these is a touch

Gentle power

I sit for hours

And rehearse in my mind

What I should say when I see her every single time

Tell her she’s a million dollars

And a dime

Girl you could tell me how you feel

You know it ain't no crime

You create happiness which results in my smile

A perfected connection only comes once in a while

CHORUS

Once in a while

Once in a while you gotta be free

And once in a while you might even see me smile

Yeah, once in a while

Uh, once in a while

Ey check it out

I’ma break it down to you like this real quick right here, look

VERSE 2

The program is a subliminal plot

Cuz Oakland is the land where little kids get shot

While we work nine to five

Eight to six

Seven to seven

Twelve hours in hell

For fifteen seconds in heaven

The nights are brutal

When you’re all alone

When you speak to yourself

But there’s no one to bring you home

They say don’t ask for help

Don’t yell too loud

Everybody sees you there

Keep a smile through closed mouth

Once in a while I plan for my life

But it all goes to hell when I turn out the light

But it’s alright

Even though it feels wrong

Cuz once in a while

I put it into a song

I got too many reasons

And not enough seasons

To be achievin’

Big dreams that I believe in

I mean this

My design so seamless

Started out washing floors

So of course

I make clean hits