[Verse 1: Young Joseph]

By the skin of my teeth I'm livin' on

Unstable and fragile like a tickin' bomb

My feet track lazily, tuckin' in my body

Couldn't be alarmed, walkin' dead like the army

Amongst all the masses of punks and robots

Fools change shape like Decepticons and GoBots

Resistance is futile, fightin' is juvenile

Zip it up, stay in line and keep a single file

This concrete kingdom seems too overwhelming

And life without these privileges ain't to becomin'

My heartbeat stutters, bump-bu-bump

And cops ain't nothin' but punks with pumps

Escape is out the question 'cause I got ties hеre

Tombstones, property and family lorе

Succumb to the pressure at the drop of a hat

Gettin' by off these raps and shakin' some pimp tabs

[Verse 2: Subtitle]

And I wake up everyday

Trying to hustle my pay

Get on the bus and go away

Through the city of LA

Getting by, getting by

And I wake up everyday

Glad I have somewhere to stay

And it's all that anyway

Getting by, getting by

And I wake up everyday

Get on the grind with no delay

Peep the message to convey

Even when the skies are gray

Getting by, getting by

And it's too hard to relay

But it never was that great

Always link my hands of faith

Get your hands up off my plate

I'm too young to have to wait

Getting by in a frizzy state

Feeling my blood coagulate

Congratulation for checkmate

I can't focus, concentrate

The focal point of the whole state

Local urban loco, but I'm broke

Getting by, getting by

But they don't understand me

It is always I, not we

Anything goes when it comes to a she

I do things that are free to me

And chagre the populus a fee

And they don't seem to agree

Getting by, getting by

Grow is me, woe are we

Three plus one, go-go league

And one more on the beat

Your life will never be complete

When you get told what you see

And you don't think you should try

Since you're just told you're getting by

[Verse 3: Administer]

Priorities come to the surface

When necessities are anything but worthless

Potentially convulsive change

Exactly what direction will they take us

If your imagination is empty

Darkness, it will consume your identity

Innately and intuatively, let's all make it grow like an annuity

Strong incentives they outweight prevented consequences

Inundated and formulated

While the still-evolving structure is implemented

Don't believe your disbelief

Don't be unconvinced of your convictions

Understand your misunderstanding

Communicate, talk and listen

I seem to find purpose in this

When at times it seems so purposeless

Ideology transforming policy proportionally providing ample stimulus

There's a quality to one's philosophy

Beneficial features implemented properly

Central to our concept is flexibility

Fring of bottlenecks and available agility

[Verse 4: Existereo]

I'll drink nectar

From the cup of life

Till I realized that somebody had ashed in it

And I'm past the limits of the masochistic habits which inhibit

My last match that's lit for like however longer

In my semi [?] ensemble a hatemonger will always wonder in my

Wild wisping winds all the wild whispering sins

Under the nomad gypsy grins to my patronized perceptions

Harvest full moon sessions through these lessons of aggression

Testing less than zero looped out heroes, misplaced weirdos

Aahh. Where did I go when I fell from the clutch of the grasp of you?

I fell to the bottom of the wolf's taboo

It's full of early rage and it screams: "Fuck you!"

Jumpin' through the hoops of fire like it was my fucking hobby

You can usually find me after a show drunk, passed out in the lobby

So don't bother me

Unless you want the white trash style robbery

I'm normally a really nice guy when I can time

To get touch in with the calm of me

Somberly days pass by in a drug sedated bliss

Where I can't feel her hate but I can still taste her kiss

This is it for Exist, stereotype hype, right?

I'm not sayin' watch your back 'cause most you rotten fruits look ripe