[Intro]

If you saw the younger you, what would you say to 'em?

I would say thanks

I would say peace

I'd tell them, "Soon child, you are gonna find release"

(Release, release, release)

[Verse 1]

Long time coming to right now, pipe down

Lifetime looking for things I thought I'd found already

Falling to the floor, like I'm alright, I'm steady

I send myself back so I can tell me

Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats

And I'm still so far from finding peace

Every line is a ladder I can climb through timе

And I walk straight faced through these winding streets

I еat the bread of rhythm, I drink the milk of rhyme

I've been carrying a bag of shame that's bigger than me

Dragging it behind me, up an endless staircase

Until the day I realised

This doesn't mean what I think it does

I don't need to carry this forever

I left it in the clearing by the fire pit and ran

Back to the child I was, looking for an elder

I saw myself there, I took myself by the hand

[Chorus]

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

(Self, self, self, self)

[Verse 2]

I was seventeen, heaven seemed close enough to touch

I had never been happier, chest against the barrier

Watching Wu-Tang

My own character starting to bloom

I was learning how to capture a room in two phrases

Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats

Close my eyes and speak down the wires of time

I go back to the child I was

When I put myself on the line

I had to beg for the mic, I had to deal with the ignorance

Had to get better, I wanted bigger things

These days, those days they are far away

Try and catch them in my sights but they start to fade

Now I sit amongst crate loads of rhyme books

And I think about the days that the time took

I thank the little me that put the work in

Like, could you picture me when you were spitting sixteens?

Surfing the top deck penning them bars

Underaged in the clubs taking charge of the mic

Precautious little nothing with the world in his sights

I am on it now, I will work harder

This is peace to the kid I came after

(Peace to the kid I came after)

The words of the bridge between the present and the past

I know myself at last

[Chorus]

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

Know yourself

Know yourself

[Outro]

Soon child, you are gonna find release

(Release, release)