reflections

By j. sula

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[Intro: Camille Rowe]

Today I feel very Simone de Beauvoir


[Verse 1: YOSHUA]

Keep on pushing me closer to the edge, I just might jump it

Base your viewpoint of my person on a couple assumptions

I might skydive out of a jet, forget to pull my chute up

I'm so lightheaded, hit the pavement, started leaking blue blood

Won’t be the centerpiece on your mantle

For you to show off your guests to

Too busy trying to keep afloat

To take a peek at what all the rest do

New year, me in my best mood

New year, new life be eventful

New year, focused on the sensual

New year, build up on my mental

I worked for this, I can't lose now

I took some hits and they bruised now

I plead the fifth on the truth

It's time to plot my next move

Clapping my hands, I’m tryna turn on the lights

Did a lot of wrong, I'm tryna make it all right

In the daytime, I'm just going through the motions

Hoping that a sign will come, before I know it, day turn to night

City hopping, searching for the answers to my questions that

Just haven't been answered yet

I be hella moody with my Cancer head

Shoulda lost a lot of money, all the times I ran a bet


[Verse 2: ROSEOUL 7K]

Smiling in front of a barrel, I quote

The past the only thing that keeps you afloat

Me, my angels and demons in the same boat

Torn between survival and murder, by the water which we go

I was taught that the sky was the limit

Even when I was sad, young and timid

Silence is my disguise for me to win life's scrimmage

Translation: I learned to not fight when I'm mad

Contending for the faith I hold dear from my past

Legends never last the way they was intended

Fairytales rewritten by monsters for the sake of children

Man, I went to war last night

With a Bible and a knife and still came out without a scratch

Lock and key my life behind a safe

And make sure that you break the hatch

Building me a wall so my heart never loses its race

When I fall into my grave, shoot my haters in the face

Give my momma some roses, 'cause in spirit I'ma keep ’em safe

What’s done is done and it won't be the same

My past taught me success, patience and pain

For that I thank those who are not here now

’Cause you know that you opened up my lane


[Chorus: ROSESOUL 7K]

Ain't no coming back

You can't hold me back

Ain't no coming back

Ain’t no coming back


[Verse 3: YOSHUA]

The past is the past, yeah yeah

I drop it off, I don't look back

I let it all go, yeah yeah

Sunk it in the ocean, it floats

But if it's all the same, I'm better off now without it

I went through way too much this year to ever be doubted

Memory lane is closed, so I am never around it

I lost my way a while ago, I hope that I've found it

Please don't hit my line, I'm tryna climb my own Everest

And I ain't brought my gear, but I don't wanna stay settled

And plus there probably isn't any service at the summit

My plummet to ground zero hurts, I used to be a hunnid

But the only way from here is up, so I'm climbing

Gotta keep on driving, homie, upping that mileage

Peeking through kaleidoscopes in hopes I find the color

Missing from my palette, tryna paint the canvas

See the vision finished, ooh

Uh, tryna paint the canvas, see the vision finished, yeah

You get a little clout and now you walking different

I got a new lens on life so I see

Past all of the people that's talking pretty

I know it's all a façade, I know they all against me

Life is just a mirage, but please, try and tempt me


[Chorus: ROSESOUL 7K]

Ain't no coming back

You can't hold me back

Ain't no coming back

Ain't no coming

Ain't no coming back

You can't hold me back

Ain't no coming back

Ain't no coming back


[Verse 4: YOSHUA]

Well by now, I've really crossed the point of no return

I'm fine with it, I did a lot and took my time with it

And what I do from here on out is only God's business

And as God's witness, I accept if I get charged with it

Too busy looking in the rearview, I hit the curb

Fronting hard but bumping Sicko Mode up in the 'burbs

I'm glowing up, gotta remember where I was at first

It's all in the books, so I won't say another word

I'ma keep going 'til the fat lady sing her last note

Then I quote, show is over, gotta stay afloat

Drove two hundred miles on empty, so I screwed the engine

And now it's breaking down on me so I gotta refill it

I haven't talked to my Creator since before the winter

Tryna outrun my sin, I never was a sprinter

I got a gift too wonderful for words, I don't deserve it

But I didn't buy it, I didn't earn it from a sermon

His love was free and me, I think about the past too often

All my ghosts that haunt me nightly, I'm so damn exhausted

I spin myself around the bend until I'm freaking carsick

I wanna move across the world and find my own apartment

Sometimes I wanna change the world for good and be important

Sometimes I wish that I had let it go, and not kept scoring

And I wanna go home to God 'cause right now I'm the farthest

There's no time better than present, I guess I'll get started