[J D'ALba]

So the whole time I've been claiming to be me

Maybe just someone I've been pretending to be

To be different nothing I need do differently

Simply not known for my simplicity

Forced to read between the lines on every page

Only picture stage words develop as you age

At least to me, they'll remain after I phase

Reframe from strays only when fed gave praise

Let me rephrase give a stray a place to stay

They'll put your generosity on display

With no delay eating after they ate

Gluttonase ways and your not safe

Consuming all you have could be the case

No time or place to let your focus strafe

Succumb to the date Reality you can't make

You want to help, but your way to late

Learn things from people in the strangest ways

Observance to perceive the unwithered frays

Clouds of haze to you a sky of greys

Gaze at the craze enter my minds maze

In decisive plays mind to be amazed

Be surprised at what it takes

Velocity into days thoughts at a faster pace

Steps retraced

Rap seems to me the only right time and place

For anything I feel the need to say

And don't care to translate

Into lamens terms

Never to be ashamed of past days

Honesty only thing to thank for being saved

Would never choose to have a memory erased

Only smoke ones I rolled to the face

Heart thumping like the bass at an erratic pace

Paranoia laced jay after taste

Aspire to be unable to replicate

Not allowed to hesitate my words resonate

Emotions inside

That most portray false and hide

Known to be one to deny, Myself a guide

That would help smooth along the ride

But always decide not to be beside

Characters and there lies that kill vibes

Disguised as sighs is inside crippling cries

Take as it applies, out of ideas I've derived

Not bigger than my pride rap to confide

Through these tracks and lines designed

To kind of feel somewhat inclined

And help be defined the ceiling of a mind

Lines to defy the meaning at the time

Clipsing on the grind listen don't hear to find

A book that's not only been left out

Its been underlined