Ephemeral

By TG3

On Executive Order

Released on December 31, 2019

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(MC Brooklyn)

I'm a fucking menace, call me Dennis. Braces on my teeth, look like grillz, shout out to my dentist

Doing what we want, not what they let us. Stack green cabbage, can’t forget the lettuce

Rap Kings boi, we the men of letters. Relentless, we can never let up. Life hits hard but I always get up

I'm a lyrical miracle, yo my flow is pivotal, and my bars not typical, man your words despicable, and your rhymes is pitiful, impact is minimal, mine is so spiritual, mind is so spiritual, way past the physical, and I passed my physical. God sent, I'm biblical. My vision, not visible. No music, I’m miserable, I'm raw and critical, winning is the principle, who the best, it isn't you

Yea. I'm on my grind, on a mission

Yea. I'm an engine, I'm a piston

Yea. Boi, I'm a living lesson

Yea. Scratch that, living legend

Yea. I'm not the one you pressing

Uh. I rebuke my depression

I’m a King, not a peasant

Devil, I will never let in

(Audio Snippet)

The decision is totally yours

Whether or not you’re gonna let it--

Whether or not you're gonna be the mediocre dude

Whether or not you gonna be the idiot muhfucka like me that fell and you know okay, well yeah I was--

Used to bees don’t make no honey

You know what I mean

Only honeybees make honey

Well I used to be this-- that ain't cutting it

Used to bees don't make no honey

Wanna bees don't make no honey

Only bees

The word be, exist

Be and exist

(Legacy)

Telling me I gotta change i know better

Matching my heart to the cold weather

I wasn’t tryna be a savage but im more than 21 this ain't no set up

Balance out my imperfections, i was praying for more blessings

I ain't tryna learn a lesson that take too much time i jus wanna get the check and spend it

Fast lane a nigga driven

I can beat you to the finish

Ion een need a witness

You can feel it in ya spirit

I spend too much time on my vision

I know that u see it

Lookin back on my past man it's so humbling

Scary lil nigga i never woulda confronted

Anybody girl, boy, slut, ho, or thottie

So what you expect after the first year of college

Tryna cut a lil bit

Player player yeah im looking like a joy stick

I was never meant for that been appointed

Set aside for a different purpose

I could never see the plan

But i know it's worth it

Gotta baddie on my hands she jus need a birkin

So im working to the grindstone

For the diamonds

With a gold mind

You can't find those

You won't find those

Ephemeral man ephemeral

Ephemeral yeah ephemeral

This shit so cold man this shit so cold

This shit so cold man this shit so cold

(Audio Snippet)

You had the Sadducees and the Pharisees

And the Pharisees believed in the resurrection

But they believed it had to happen within two days

That the person could come back to life

The Sadducees completely didn't believe it at all

That's why God waited til the third day to raise Jesus up

So just when it looks like it's not gonna happen

Just when everybody gives up

Then they'll know without a doubt that it was nothing but God that did it

(Pragmatic)

Have you ever seen a black boy fly

Quick, you better glance at me

Did it all deflecting them throwing bands

Inspecting all of them deals

And making sure that my hands

Were never touching them bills

Supporting murder of people

And steeple embezzlement

Them immigration offenses

Or that eth-nic cleansing

Killing them children senseless

We wanted change but it came with a fence or a wall that you can't trump cause it's chained to a pence

I try to stay on the bench

Cause I play too much

Making moves in the field

I don't say too much

If I lose then

It ain't too much that I can't handle

Gotta another season like scandal

Try to wear my shoes

You could never fit these sandals

Cause I got faith in my soul

And it makes all my goals attainable

You tripping if the business

You doing ain't sustainable

Just taintable

And unmanageable

Cause you a cannibal

Feeding off the people at

The bottom

See you channeling they anger

And they pain

But no rivers for the rain to collect

And then flow and then water the floodplains

No respect

Niggas nowadays honor the bloodstains

In the hood yo they carrying Glocks

I came to school just to carry my block

Your mind be the tool it ain't cool out there flipping them rocks

Know it's a duel, but just wait for the tick of the clock

(Audio Snippet)

Even a landing-

This can either be your landing pad--

Is it recording now? It is

It can either be your landing pad or your launching pad

This can be the place where you stay on this one plane

Where you've anded and just stay there

Okay I went to college-

A lot of people say "Okay I went to college and did this"

And they stop

Or this can be your launching pad

The place where you take off to the next level

Where you explore the depths and the heights that God has for you

You know there's no...

He says if you give to Him

And when He says give he's talking about not just money but other resources

Your time, yourself

And He says when you give He'll give back to you

Good measure, pressed down, shaken up, and overflowing

So imagine this cup, you see how this ice is in there

So imagine it was filled with ice

Pressed down, shaken up so it can go down some more

And still overflowing, so it's more