[Verse 1: Slaine]

Have you ever dug deep into the trauma you faced

As a kid, and seen how it creates where you basically is?

How you fight when you fuck and you leave

How you love or you hate all of what you perceive

Is all seen through the filter of fear

Shame, guilt, and despair, palpable pain is felt in the air

It's still there from the belt and the chair

Try and squelch it to move forward to maybe build and repair

It's too horrid when tomorrows are frozen in time

With the mind trapped in a self-loathing design

I try to shove it down, leave it all closed up inside

See if you love me now, I can sell souls to the blind

Lost in the spiral of the mind like an addict can

Be mesmerized in the rhythm of a tragic dance

I guess I never had a chance

Now I'm looking back, standing at the bottom of an avalanche

[Hook: ILL Bill]

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends

[Verse 2: Slaine]

Thought I knew true truth, didn't know truth at all

This shit was super false, I was a shooting star

Who knew that you could fall so far in the dirt again

To pull up my roots in awe

I had forgotten it all like I took Ruphenol

I had a game to win, fuck it, I shoot the ball

Numbing the pain again, a bucket or hoop to fall

Is all it took to get me to another ooh and ah

I been through withdrawal, it becomes who you are

Ah, object of affection

I came, I conquered what gets your attention

Insane, I'm bonkers, my quest, my ascension

These rhymes I wrote on the desk in detention

Ah, troubled youth chugging juice with the gin

In my Bubblegoose trynna blackout back then

Smoking PCP when the Summer come

Looking back, wasn't just the cops I was running from

[Hook: ILL Bill]

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends

[Verse 3: Slaine]

So I'm a prisoner, and I'm mind-warped on a plane ride

With the kamikaze pilot, we ain't on the same side

Living in a time warp, I'm still where the pain died

Brain tied in the same chains that I'm hanged by everyday

I wake up the same with the strange vibe

Maybe I should stay inside watching paint dry

Even then, I can't write with the same drive

That I had when I was getting high

Is that the truth? Or a lie? Yeah, the war never ends

All my ruthless desires, we are forever friends

So I shoot for the skies, but it's more evident

Than it's ever been, that there's something killing me within

I keep keeping on, one foot in front

The other head up everywhere that I'm stepping now

But when you're fighting all your life, can't trust nobody

Tell me, when is it time to put the weapons down?

[Hook: ILL Bill]

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends

We never know what tomorrow brings

Try to be prepared for when sorrow sings

The Lord taketh and the Lord gives

Though I am still aching when the war ends