Half Mortal

By Edwin Mlayi

On GREY TAPE

Released on June 6, 2020

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Yuh

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah

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VERSE 1

Honestly sometimes I wish that I was made of steel

A piece of the tech with the inability to feel

I grow increasing sick of pain I always conceal

Thoughts in my head of quitting this stuff is really real

Many years have come and gone and I’m running in place

Many times I fell short of glory and fallen from grace

Re-evaluating myself and seeing what and what not to chase

19, I still got vices that I ought to face

I don’t feel fully human these days

But really all I am is stuck in a maze

Cuz I’m trynna figure out do I really fit well with mundanes

Or am I cut out for morе? Or am I just Insane

Part of me feeling highly heftеd up but still before my summit

But part of me feels like I’m gonna plummet

It’s like I’m being held back from being able to tap into my full potential

My ability to bring visions to life is exponential

However How is it that I slumber on myself a lot

Beat myself up when I know better than to say things that do not

Really raise my spirit up but only lead to my demise?

Why do I see myself with a cloud over my head in my own eyes?

Many times I misplaced myself in my thoughts

Trynna find myself, only to further complicate the knots

I need to

Learn to accept who I am, forgetting who I’m not

Work on myself because Honestly I’m all I ever got

CHORUS

If I wallow down this road

Will I find myself in peril?

Will I walk amongst the angels?

Will Hate myself for failure?

Will I sing a song of praise?

Or will I scream a song of danger?

Will my eyes be open then?

Will I see nothing but Haze?

( I’ mean, I make mistakes. I mess up, like anybody else would. I mean, I’m only human at the end of the day. You know, there’s no running away from that. I can’t run away from the fact thatI’m going to mess up, ‘cause it’s never in anybody’s plan to mess up. But you know, I’ll always take it on the chin because it’s part of the whole human experience. It’s part of who we are. And it’s okay. It’s okay to mess up. That’s what it means to be human, I guess…)

VERSE 2

I’m relearning how to trust my gut

Learning how to take the mud thrown at me and use it to build a hut

Speak from my heart because sometimes my mind betrays me

And is never always right on what to think and what to say

Fall 9 times and get up 10

Put my pain into this pad and do so with this pen

This being human thing, needs more rehearsal than I thought

Because the roll that I’m to play gets harder In this thickened plot

Where the hell my freaking confidence goes, nobody knows

Because one moment I’m up, the next I’m within the lows

Are these feelings of inadequacy self imposed?

Or am I predisposed to feeling feelings of feeling like I should be disposed of?

I try to look to the sky to find cosmic affirmation

That there’s a silver lining in every cloudy situation

But It’s been a minute since I really talked to God

And every time I do it feels pretty awkward and kinda odd

And my sister’s probably listening to this now

Wondering what nonsense I’m saying or what I even wrote this down

This is me, being human, having nothing figured out

Because none of us is omniscient and to be human is to doubt

Lately I seek more clarity within this life of mine

Seeking to find purpose and help others do the same with every line

That I’ve written, But it seems to boggle my mind

How I’m squinting in the sun but I’m to lead the blind

Being human is a difficult task

Many rhetoric questions that we sit around and ask

But will we ever find the answers?

Will we ever find the answers?

CHORUS

If I wallow down this road

Will I find myself in peril?

Will I walk amongst the angels?

Will Hate myself for failure?

Will I sing a song of praise?

Or will I scream a song of danger?

Will my eyes be open then?

Will I see nothing but Haze?

( You know, I really don’t understand why people play like they have everything figured out when, you know, life is undefeated, man. You can never be a step ahead of life, You know what I’m saying? Of course there’s things you can avoid but like there’s things you just….life will always school you, so...I guess it’s not up to us to find the answers, innit? Right? I don’t know man, I’m just figuring life out for myself. I’m as lost as everybody else is. Let nobody trick you that I have everything figured out. I’m just trying my best like everybody else is. Yeah )