[Verse]

Whiskey to the scalp, helps me hide my insecurities

Postering like i’m a saint, enticing me are lurid things

Want to be exemplary and studious but lack the image

Focused on a million things and none of them are academic

Squandering potential, disappointment, snipped and withering

Intoxication serves to override my sensibilities

Communal drunken stupors but penchant to falter silently

Nightmarish visions always prefaced with sobriety

Dreams are contaminants festering deep the illness came

Robotrips, ganjaweed feeble attempts to kill the pain

Sedated, shambling through days as if the brother’s zombified

Smile in your face but brittle, gotta keep up my facade

Jokingly deprecating turned into defeatist lore

Rotten on the inside, but what you keep repeating it for?

Crying out for intervention

My words slurred absurd to think that I would even listen

[Hook]

East Kearsley

Went there for collegiate life

Tumblin’ through drunkenness, assumption is it breeded spite

Asphyxiated by the cords and tassels people seem to like

For maize and blue my hatred grew can I escape these fiendish rites?

Trials and tribulations but i’m faking like i’m doing fine

You can keep the sermons, wake me up when there’s communion wine

Upright, head high, fearful but won’t cave or welt

Cry no more young one your legacy won’t pave itself

[Verse]

Powered through the discomfort, mortal so I ache and bruise

Ever been trapped behind the eightball after paying dues?

Happiness elusive unless i’m staggered or chasing nudes

Empty cups are validation, binge til’ I can’t taste the booze

Edgy, anarchistic, skipping class and breakin’ rules

Oblivious, but what you’re pining for is in your face ya fool

Enough with all this sucka stuff, cut the bluffs and toughen up

Cuz sparring with the man in the mirror just left my knuckles scuffed

Comprised of two bloodlines, the Smith’s and the Elsy’s

One gave you a heart of iron, other tools for welding

Selfish, when you succumb to all of that nightly moping

Pugilistic duties, go and fight, don’t get roped in

Fires of human essence, inspired to do my best then

Bioluminescent don’t quell it make hooch a vestige

You’re prescient, colossus in mammalian flesh

Mama named me soldier, so you know your bravery’s set

[Hook]

East Kearsley

Went there for collegiate life

Tumblin’ through drunkenness, assumption is it breeded spite

Asphyxiated by the cords and tassels people seem to like

For maize and blue my hatred grew can I escape these fiendish rites?

Trials and tribulations but i’m faking like i’m doing fine

You can keep the sermons, wake me up when there’s communion wine

Upright, head high, fearful but won’t cave or welt

Cry no more young one your legacy won’t pave itself

East Kearsley

Went there for collegiate life

Tumblin’ through drunkenness, assumption is it breeded spite

Asphyxiated by the cords and tassels people seem to like

For maize and blue my hatred grew can I escape these fiendish rites?

Trials and tribulations but i’m faking like i’m doing fine

You can keep the sermons, wake me up when there’s communion wine

Upright, head high, fearful but won’t cave or welt

Cry no more young one your legacy won’t pave itself