[Verse 1: Sefu]

I’ve mastered the art of hiding sniffles and cries

I’m masking fear for when my father dies

Traumatized , mind plagued, taught lies

Hope was sold and we bought, or should I say I

And DOOM gone now my room on dark , I’m looking for pride but I happened to swallow mine

We living on borrowed time, that’s what he said

And baby I’m an artist, that’s why your messages always say read

You should instead find someone- with a chemically balanced brain in they head

Keep pace even when the race isn’t led

Queen keep mace, in case I ain’t there to turn the whole place fucking red

Momma almost lost the home we living in, it’s in her name now ‘cause faith wasn’t dead

I cover my wrists and thighs depending on the state of my head

She lay in my bed, I need more than u playing in my dreads

Taste ‘tween her legs, climaxes met

She want monogamy, that’s European not Kemet

My guy pretty like a girl frank was correct

I stare at the sun I swear to God Horus Ra was who I met

My nigga

[Verse 2: insyt.]

All the grievance I had to reimagine

The dream catchers I managed to drag through the bad shit

That damaged my traction

All the coping I’m thankful I crafted

Hope nipping at my ankles

Tip toeing through the booby traps that they planted

Scars on my heart from the shackles they gave us

The shrapnel we manage to make it through

Is just a small piece of the canvas

I got room on the pallet

I paint where I travel

The emotions I didn’t confront, conform and adjusting

Adjacent with my toes in the mud

Loathing my months

Moments was called to the touch

My timid soul/ the trust that I needed

I reap what I sow get cut by the needle

It’s needless to say

We gon' get it by our own means

No longer conceited