[Verse 1]

Summertime and I’m caught in the wind currents

I got things to do but the pressure make less urgency

See me in reflections as I walk through faded memories

And if I faded myself, now would you tell on me?

It’s a pothole in the road, it’s a steady cycle

And I look back on when I wanted to be a disciple

Hanging with a cult, that’s what my mom said

But they saw through me, like I had my palm read

Then I saw the light, I keep ‘em at arms length

[Chorus]

I keep ‘em at arms length

I keep 'em at arms length

I keep 'em at arms length

Friends come and they go, we keep our distance

I let my enemies know, they need assistance

We got close enough, 'til the day the lies spread

They got run amok, now I keep 'em at arms length

[Verse 2]

Autumn arrives and I find time to say grace

Running my future on track and at a great pace

I can’t slip up, I got non-slip shoes on

And I can’t miss my shot, 'cause dawg, I'm too on

But oops, I bricked it

Oops, I missed it

I feel it coming

Another guilt trip

Another season of doing the same things

Damn mistakes that plague me 'til probably end of days

And that’s real

[Chorus]

I keep ‘em at arms length

Arms length

I keep 'em at arms length

Arms length

Friends come and they go, we keep our distance

I let my enemies know, they need assistance

We got close enough, 'til the day the lies spread

They got run amok, now I keep 'em at arms length

[Verse 3]

Winter time and I’m finding myself alone

I got demons, they like Mongols, the way they invade my home

And I target all their fallacies by writing all these songs

It’s on point, sometimes it’s not

As I told you, my mind is gone, brotha

People I used to love, they gone, brotha

People calling my bluff, they gone, brotha

Picture me screaming at my own mother

Man, why’s the wintertime so long, brother?