(Hook)

I heard he’s just a man with an 8 track mind

Dearly departed, gone the way of the skies

But every single day man the clouds run by

Every cloud driven on by silver lines

(Post-Hook)

But I can relate with that man, because that man is me

But is that true, or is he who I wanna be

Put your lighters up now for the sires of our beings

Those who now sleep, wake up and let us preach

(Verse 1)

This man looks down at all from that high horse

He keeps a brave front to steer by the right course

But he seeks help from spirits, by the weekend when he’s hidden

His people broke even to expense of what was cryptic

Always there to drag me down when i look and see the mirror

Silver linings came up roses all things considered

I never faced the same agony to plague him, and happily

Or felt the cold grip that’s brought on by fatality

Or subject to my mind when it drops like the Hindenburg

The state that took his life I can’t surmise in written words

Justice undone, but his name is held with pride

Even when i’m shot up, and knocked down in the dirt

But the grace was hard to trace more than often from his actions

But he kept us at the surface, till his days became ashes

The bottom of the barrel to the summit of pursuits

I’d rather take a bullet than succumb to any mood

(Hook)

I heard he’s just a man with an 8 track mind

Dearly departed, gone the way of the skies

But every single day man the clouds run by

Every cloud driven on by silver lines

Yeah, loving me is complicated like the way I tolerate

My own transgressions, just a compulsive liar

Lost my one star sign out of acting like the womaniser

Wish I’d never turned and left her wondering “what’s up though”

But fuck knows, maybe it was luck

But to her it’s just a footnote, while my shell-shock’s a cutthroat

Bust my head down on the floor, sub the rage out with gun smoke

My preachings on bloodlines gotta come to head today

I wish I hadn’t let my man down on his special day

Hardest thing I’ve done to see us go our separate ways

Because I rose to shine, he had a spark but never made it

Wish I hadn’t wasted hours, only seized the day

Still the first to point things out and make others see their shame

But all things have a lifespan, wish i made the peace with (...)

Days drew by, he couldn’t face and give me closure

But still I loved him till the day was over

Wish I saw the silver linings, had a laugh, and stayed sober

Wasn’t hard then to make friends, embrace the griff

But I drank isolated, further down I chased the sniff

I cared about the merit but forgot I’m taking risks

Poison brought by spirits keeps a young man grounded

Got a lot more to learn as this cycle comes around

Feels good in the moment, but knocks defenses out

That shit has the power to lay you out beneath the ground

I can relate with that man, and I used to wonder how

My craving was enslaved deep within until now

And when constrains broke it was hard to keep down

Now the clock cannot move without me shattering my vows

(Verse 3)

Hard place on my left, rocks upon my right

The lies I tell myself, they bring back the troubled mind

But at the end of the day the prodigal must come right

Rise up out that river and freezing cold nights

And follow follow, back from where his mind is

On that yellow brick road from the land of all the snakes

Rise up and adapt not to be a waste of space

How many promises can I break until the faces make haste

How many clouds run by until the changes take place

When those clouds have disappeared then those days make sense

How long can I run till i’m out that grey area

I spent some time in hell today and seen the upside to resetting

Dances with the devil help a man to gain perspective

So his 8 track mind just expanded with a lesson

The last chapter in the saga of this past year’s reflection

Full circle now, head back to my mother’s beckons