[Verse 1]

I'm sat thinking of an opening line, best way to start this album

Ascending like a falcon bringing the courage of Malcolm

The dream of Martin, the grace of Mandela

The greatness of Muhammad Ali looking back in the mirror

Who am I? A man waiting for the world tell me?

Like a bitch fucking another guy waiting for her to bell me?

Nah, maybe when I was twenty, but never be in my thirties

This world has been trying to hurt me from early, doing the dirty

Governments and Tycoons

Corporations and World Leaders setting my rules

The fuck is up wit’ that?

Board meetings over, now they look for where the puppets at

You and me black and white, pin stripe or truckers hat

Thinking we the suckers that forever sleepwalking

Soldiers do all the shootin', Politicians do the talking

Soldiers do all the dying, Politicians say their eulogy

Sippin' Scotch on a podium, their wives flaunt their jewelry

I’m saying you ain’t fooling me, homie your world ain’t new to me

I’m autonomous, taking this opportunity

To govern my life, govern my lifestyle

So you can take away my reason to smile, but not the smile

[Chorus]

Autonomy

[Verse 2]

Self-determination, I decide who I wanna be

As long as I’m alive and I breathe then I won’t believe

These universal lies that I’m only an accessory

Just a commodity to another man's necessity

See my life as a recipe and choosing the ingredients

It don’t include obedience or full time lenience

That lifestyle's tedious

But to figure out that I cannot be owned

Man it doesn’t take a genius

Everybody see you as a label

Religion or ageism, class, sexuality or racial

Just so they can keep you in a box because they hate you

Lock you in and blame you when it’s time for them to shame you

They will, they ill, they feel they control your destiny

Cause 99 percent is not enough, they want the rest of me

But never the get the best of me

Cause God didn’t make me just so I could be a servant to your legacy

Watching you with jealously, afraid to live rebelliously

Suppressing all my truth so it’s something that you never see

I want everyone to follow me

As we put our middle fingers up and step with autonomy

Fuck that

[Chorus]

Autonomy

[Verse 3]

There are times when I sit thinking 'bout man's origination

Tell me does it match his destination

If the situation is a nation shitting on a nation

People wanna have control, they murdering, a celebration

Cause it’s all about the cash and the power

Building sky scrapers and towers and making money by the hour

Coercion and duress expands like a Durex

One eye's watching who’s now, the other looking who’s next

Everyone's a victim, imagine the masses distracted

By what the TV says is attractive

So you can look at me like just another black kid

Who holds the microphone because my education’s lacking

There’s nothing wrong about you being wrong when it’s about me

But rightfully I show you that you wrong and you just doubt me

I’m out G, cause nothing you can do defines me

So I don’t have to see me how you see me cause it blinds me

To my own life, my self worth, my existence

My ideas, my thoughts, my truth, my persistence

My right to govern myself, my own laws

My autonomy determines my life cause; pause

[Chorus]

Autonomy

[Outro: Pyrelli]

(Sent yesterday at 5:34pm)

Hey D, what's going on man? It's Pyrelli bruv

Look, it's just a quick call bruv

Bruv I just wanted to let you know

I think you're a fucking genius you know bruv

I'm bumping this 4th Quarter shit, this Lei-an shit

Bruv the shit is fucking immense bruv

The whole... them shit's is incredible blood

I just thought I should just phone you and just say that bruv

Strictly because I can bruv

I hope you're having a wonderful day bruv

Because I am getting the vibes from them 2 albums right there

Right about now blood

Keep doing what it is that the fuck you do bruv

I'mma see you soon bruv

Peace, much love"

[Chorus]

Autonomy