I know everything that shine ain’t golden

Yeah

It’s all gold plated

See the diamonds that glow, they just overrated

What shines in your soul will unfold your greatness

It’s the mind in your dome that controls your fate kid

Gold plated

See the most paid, they’ve got the coldest faces

Still grind for this dough while I hope to make it

Not grow up jaded like

Half these adults that I’ve seen in my life

And yeah it’s they faults, cause they dreams in the night don’t exist in the day

Reachin' for heights while I’m lit in this daze

With my knees on the ground while I sit and I pray

I just need to get away

But I been lookin' for a better way

And the family got some debt to pay

No delay, this for the hopeless days

Where you lay your palms out just to hold your face

And you followed by the black clouds soaked in rain

But you don’t ever stand down you’s a soldier straight

Gotta really do this on the real

Hustle for the mills, tryna stack the dollar bills

I know it can’t heal what I feel ya but still

I would kill for the life and my kin livin' right

Tryna win it every night

No breaks til I’m sittin' on a flight

Sippin' with the ice while I write this

Thick chains, fresh kick game

I need that

Beamin' lights and those sleepless nights

I fiend that

Still everything that shine ain’t golden

But how you know if you can’t hold it

It’s all gold plated

It’s all gold plated

It’s all gold plated

It’s all gold plated

They keep tellin' me it’s gold plated

But how you know it if you don’t taste it

So I’m gon’ chase it

(Gon’ make it)

Trying not to spend money on these retail companies

I just need some female company

The weed smell buggin' me

Said I wouldn’t smoke, but with every single toke

My mind feel woke, while the time peel slow

Like, what would you do for the juice

And what would you do for the truth

I spend my days unamused

Dreamin' bout stadiums without these stains on my shoes

Now wake up and move

Do what you say don’t just say what you do

Moving away from these snakes in the room that wan' take some from you

Shit if I split the paper then that’s with the crew

Been gettin' high just to out the lows

I’m tryna tell the youth never doubt your soul

You can fly off to the place where the mountains glow

Just don’t forget about the people on the ground below

Sick chains, fresh kick game

I need that

Beamin' lights and those sleepless nights

I fiend that

Still everything that shine ain’t golden

But how you know if you can’t hold it

It’s all gold plated

It’s all gold plated

It’s all gold plated

Gold plated, it’s gold plated

See they keep tellin' me it’s gold plated

But how you know it if you don’t taste it

So I’m gon’ chase it

(Gon’ make it)

Gon’ make it out

Of this place

I need time

I need space

Run away

For a day

Should I go?

Maybe I should stay

Gon’ make it out

Of this place

I need time

I need space

Run away

For a day

Should I go?

Maybe I should stay

Stay

But I know it’s all gold plated

(Maybe I should stay)

But I promise that I won’t fake it

(Instead of tryna run away)

Well I’m gon’ make it

(Deal with all the pain)