[Verse 1]

If you have a fear you should face it now

I notice that there's hatred round when my faith is down

I'm looking at my momma's face, I wanna make it smile

It just takes a while, yeah

They say you can't make the crowd make a sound

Face it child, change your sound, hang your towel

But I realize I make all of my greatest rounds when

I scrape the ground, it's just

Where do I go from here

'Cause this mind that I have's the new home for fear

What if I die now and then no one hears the songs that I make

Or they close their ears?

On one side of the coin I'm so revered

I could definitely flow with tears, yeah I know I'm weird

But on the other side of the coin

I'm just trying to make sure I see no more tears, I thought

I'd buy her a whip by now

I thought I'd buy her a house made of brick by now

With a tire and a white picket fence by now

But that reality just doesn't exist right now, yeah

As crazy as this might sound

Every time I spit I'm proud

I just wish that I'll

Just get out of my own way

So I can finally take over and get my crown, yeah

[Hook]

I've tasted defeat before, I've tasted defeat before

I know I have

All that I'm reaching for, all that I'm reaching for

Is not in my grasp

Pain wants to teach me more, pain wants to teach me more

I fall and I crash

You've taken everything that I have, all that I ask is

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my, don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

[Verse 2]

There's a whole big Earth spinning

It feels like I'm the only one that's cursed in it

I pick up a pen and pad and start getting mad

'Cause I end up hating

What's rehearsed in the first minutes, dang I'm my worst critic

Surprised I ever get a verse finished

There's a demon at work with a thirst causing hurt in it

I wrote this verse to converse with it

I couldn't get it to convert or revert from the church visits

But be certain, I'm working this magic to

Nurture the purpose, the curtain is crashing

Searching for worth 'fore I'm dirt in a casket

'Cause I don't wanna burst from my perch into ashes

Don't wanna be a jerk or a has-been

A person deserting his passion, it hurts to imagine

Putting in all of this work and then not

Have the thirst or the firmness to grasp it

But every single line I've chopped, the mind I've got

Gets tied in knots from writer's block

I'm tweaking my rhymes a notch and trying to plot

A way that I can climb the top, no time to stop

They'll all be alive to watch me make it

I don't care if I'm signed or not

Maybe if I find a quiet spot, I can walk

Past these giant clots of violent thoughts, it's just

I don't ever really feel fulfilled

It's like I'm eating but never feel full

And I don't really care how these fools feel

And the other part of me just feels full, I'm just fearful

That I can't make it to the last level in time, it's too late

Inside a huge weight, I really just need to go and

Find my true strength and find a new way (for real)

[Hook]

I've tasted defeat before, I've tasted defeat before

I know I have

All that I'm reaching for, all that I'm reaching for

Is not in my grasp

Pain wants to teach me more, pain wants to teach me more

I fall and I crash

You've taken everything that I have, all that I ask is

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my, don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live

[Outro (Spoken)]

(I've given everything that I have

What more do you want from me?

I gave money, I gave my time, I cut people off

All just so I can see this pay off)

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna (Day after day)

Don't take my feet off the ground

Don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna (There's nothing I have left to give)

Don't take my feet off the ground

Please don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna

Don't take my feet off the ground

Just don't take my feet off the ground, I wanna live