E. COLI - Intellectual

[Verse]

What’s up with it? What time is it?

The bell’s tolling all around me, but I don’t know which chime it is

I don’t know if I’m obliged to this

Too locked in this to resign to this

I don’t wanna face my crimes, cousin, ‘cus my penance is a life sentence

Remember when I was the rhyme menace?

High winds, a malign tempest

Y’all didn’t wanna see my prime tested

Wise irredentist, I declined tenants

Hygienist, y’all got washed, peasants

Biochemist, I applied repellent

High lieutenant, y’all were my apprentices

Y’all appellants to my senate, and

Life is a destination, but now I’m starting to feel that my climb’s finished

Finish climbing, don’t diminish mine

‘Cus I’m still in line till the line’s finished

The finish line, I’m bribing it

Had to book it like a flight ticket

The longer that I stay away, the more that I’m made to pay, that’s time’s interest

Family loan never financed

Mama asking, “Boy, where your mind went?”

Papa mad, he ain’t say nothing, but I can tell by how his eye glanced

Pray to God with entwined hands

In the timelapse as my reel winds back

I don’t wanna see the devil and my mind dance

Maybe I don’t wanna have my gun cocked in this

Wanna get in touch with God’s crescent

Don’t wanna rap another lied sentence

Hurt buried where my pride camps

Fright trapped in a flytrap

Where the tide ran was my prison

No more light to reflect on my decisions

Let alone, on my vision

I tread alone on my mission

My villain was my perspective on it

Life’s a song, and I set the tone

Don’t forget the strength I built when I was on

Hope you understand me when I fall

Hope you miss me once I’m gone

Yours truly, Joe