[Intro]

How do ya have good dreams when ya life’s a nightmare

And everything you’re breathing for feels like it’s light years

Out of reach?

Hiking boots around my feet

Preparing for the mountain peak

[Verse]

Tell myself to take it one step at a time

There ain’t no other way to do it

Escalate, make mistakes, what is—

Y’ain’t human?

This is just the body I was given

So I’m giving this my everything

My grandfather’s grandfather clock—

Nonstop tickin’ tock

Familial reminder in the kitchen

Got me itchin’ like an addict when the fix is missin’

Everything we’ve got

Could be picked up in an instant

Jerry died a few years back

I blinked and missed it

I know that he’s lookin’ down now

Y’all know why I put all

My heart and soul into singing this shit

I’m better than a cargo boat, Titanic combined

Ain’t an iceberg on this globe that could be sinkin’ this ship

This for Jerome

And anybody else who won’t get to see me grow

My certificate of birth says I’m twenty-one, damn, I’m feelin’ old

Musta been a liar sayin’ time never slows

Every day is a gift

And I wake up, put a shirt on after countin’ my ribs

I say twenty-four prayers as I’m takin’ a whiff

Of the brisk air

Thankful for these nostrils, lettin’ summer winds get in there

I’m sorry to my ex who didn’t get the best of me

I was dedicated, on a hunt to find the recipe

For what makes me, me—the something that’s my specialty

So I dreamed scenes, I’m filled with better energy

I can see the peak, the way that I be movin’ steadily

Think back to 2018, usin’ fruits in melodies

Seeds were born, nurtured daily despite what the weather be

Now 2024, I made it here ‘cause I’m meant to be

I meant to keep this short, but I don’t think I’m done yet

I’m the type of guy to always ask, "What come next?"

After graduation, look for work in different subjects—

Different cities, anywhere on earth really—spin a compass

I liked my time in London

I miss Milwaukee and Wisconsin

But if New York City call me, then I’m comin’

One World Trade, how I’mma get the ring? A tall assumption

Got my options open, so with none of them, it’s all or nothin’

Thanks to all the emcees, y’all my major fuel:

Boldy James, and K. Lamar, Westside Gunn, and Navy Blue

Jay-Z, Eminem, JID, Benny, Mach-Hommy, lemme air the room

Denzel Curry, Freddie Gibbs, and Conway, plus the Larry June

Mac Miller, Rocky, Wayne

50 Cent, and Red, and Meth

They paved the route

Can’t leave Incarnate, Vinny Staples, Lean, and Tyler, too

B.I.G., and Big L, PEGGY, Dilla, Alc, Atreyo, dude

If none of y’all ain’t did this first, I never woulda made a tune

And now I can spit a verse like Andre 3K playin’ the flute

They ask me if I rap or if I sing—I say I’m able to

But do this in my free time ‘cause I made the move to stay in school

I got a plan to graduate and take my talents global when it’s May or June

Thank God I found a place where I can play with my creative juice

The older people in my life had always told me not to waste my youth

Used to think I did, but now I wouldn’t say it’s true

(I wouldn’t say it’s true)

[Chorus]

(These are just)

Some thoughts I got stacked in my brain, but maybe it ain’t real relatable

Glad for every step I’ve taken, even when my ankle rolled

Now there ain’t no more nightmares—

No more nights of layin’ cold

(These are just)

Some thoughts I got stacked in my brain, but maybe it ain’t real relatable

Glad for every step I’ve taken, even when my ankle rolled

Now there ain’t no more nightmares—

No more nights of layin’ cold