[Intro]

Statik Selektah (Statik Selektah, Statik Selektah)

Every single word

[Verse 1]

Staying optimistic is exhausting

Ventin' feel like bitchin', like I'm whining

Circle visions and I'm caught in it, often

Not gon' be effect, more like the cause

Know they order tall, but the measure not how low you get, but how far you can fall from

They can stay lost if I lost 'em

Everything I say is dual like exhaust

Level headed nigga, mind swimming, all minute

The limits picked up aggression, identity like thе water

Speaking of it, striving to stay above it, povеrty like a mind state, still tryna recover

Trying not to be plummet, thought of it, tie my stomach

Leaving the way you came in, with nothing, somebody love me

Want another and another, my sister and my brother

The nigga that don't know me from Joe Blow, I could touch him with a song

I remind 'em, they never really alone

I'm going against conviction, correct me, I'm never wrong from intention

You might just lack a dimension up in your soul

Cuttin' my dope shit with your energy

Steppin' on it and twistin' it, selling that for your benefit

But control of opinion, don't want me as no enemy 'cause you gon' have to finish me

Shit'll go to infinity like a fifty beef

I hold a grudge like holding my Hennessy

I never blacked out, running cash out, they said don't fall for that

Capped out, niggas maxed out, where my ballers at?

All I ever needed was some paper, nigga all facts

Can't deny it, that would mean to give it all back

[Pre-Chorus]

Take my hand

Never be alone, 'long as I'm with you

Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

They say my ego crashing down

[Chorus]

What if I told you I know the way?

But it go against everything that you know

I can see you infatuated with pain

You don't love it, then why you won't let it go?

I know people identify with that word

Don't take my advice over some, don't

You might think I'm being too harsh but

This what it sound like when I'm alone

[Verse 2]

Never needed much, but in the same breath a nigga wanted everything

Be content, think abundantly

You could never be lonely, never be hungry

Be worthless and not deserving of some kind of peace

I'm protecting mine by any means

I be where the vibes at

This ain't for yo' mind though, this shit for your mindset

This a different dialect

This ain't no get back lyrical pissing contest

Even though I rhyme best, beside that

Fo' past 4:40 a.m., a baby born in a poverty from the evils of infancy, needed purpose

Feeling helpless, invincible, and that same same stream of conscious that I adopted kept me further from the surface

Out of balance, I know we grow from challenge

I know the place that ego take you to fill the valor

They say the opposite of they soul, mind dying of thirst

Rewind me back to 2009, I left the earth

Been blinded, what could be present time to live the curse

Remind me to stop watching my life play in reverse

Like mine gotta be cursed, find what I deserve

A lion says I deserted the shine

Painted the version of me in the worst light

Ironically, so it served they failure to make it seem like I'm wired, didn't work

Father fuck 'em

They gon' be used to be useless

The side of love we blind to in the truest sense

Bend the rules for the homie and they gon' play they self out of position

This for the niggas that forgot to miss me

Out necessity of often being self-sufficient

Shit I'm the only one who need to see the vision

[Chorus]

What if I told you I know the way?

But it go against everything that you know

I can see you infatuated with pain

You don't love it, then why you won't let it go?

I know people identify with that word

Don't take my advice over some, don't

You might think I'm being too harsh but

This what it sound like when I'm alone

[Outro]

Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

(This what it sound like when I'm alone)

This what it sound like when I'm alone