Minds On A Thread - Intellectual

[Chorus: Zer0 AM]

Time and time again

I'll keep my mind on a thread

I'm over it

I'll move away

I'm scared I'll laugh til' it's gone

I don't want to be alone

Will I remain

Oh can't I stay

[Verse 1: Toby From 59th]

It's not like we were born in the 80s melanin babies

It wasn't really amusement but amusing that payed me

Any given attention, tension anti-persuasive

So we hid all of the frowns denounced in aunty abetting

Kindly obliged, obeyed but we never denied

Outside we play but were never inside on any day because we hated our lives

Sometimes if felt like we were chased by the lights

Gave anything for just a piece of delight

Given the time, we thought that we were blind until we opened our eyes

Times it felt like we were chasing the sky

Thought ambition was a pretty disguise

They called me lazy cause I wouldn't conform, I couldn't confide the pressures that were top of my mind

I'm stressing daily but they can't see me cry

Resilience would help me weather the storm

My brilliance was simply one of a kind

My genius was just the garment we worn

It's seeming-less because I'm losing my mind

I'm not the person that you think they adore

Sooner or later we were learning to lie

Exaggerating every piece of the lore

Before we knew it we were learning to hide

At any sign of any problem I'm gone

Couldn't decide, I'd call it a night or face the bull and grab it right by the horns

All l wanted was a rose and a smile

They never told me that it came with the thorns

My arrogance was simply nothing to mind

My confidence was only there to perform

My stubbornness would tell me there if I'm right

My carelessness would stop me dropping a song

Touching less cause it was gathering flies

If nothing's left I hope the music is on

I'm talking less I have a fear of replies

If nothing's left I hope you're playing this song, if nothing's left I hope you're playing the song

[Verse 2: Toby From 59th]

But threads break eventually, and friends stay preferably

And goal's stay Peripheral and songs stay eternities

But we don't make time to waste time but same time

You don't make time, so say time could say uhm

It's a day gone, life gone before you got a bygone

I didn't know, I begrudge myself cause why not?

I got 99 problems and I'm every single issue

I don't cry, don't need tissue

I'm alive, it's unofficial

Felt alone so long my log got disrespectful

Every time I got a call it wasn't nothing sentimental

It was when you gon' into

All the stuff your peers is into

I mean music stuff is cool but boyzen do you have credentials? Sometimes I buy it too

More often than you'd assume

It's 2023 and it's still been labourless fruit

I love my neighbour but you?

It's unconditional

I want you to love me too

I'd give you up my days for you

I need my cousin back, she needs to see me produce

She's showing up in my dreams and waking me up for proof

You ever seen a death and thought maybe it should've been you

GOD don't make mistakes but that don't mean the same for you

Everywhere I go it's elephants in the room

Skeletons in the closet, the dresser, the cupboard too

Common denominator I guess it got to be true

The song's gon take you nowhere but 30 in daddy's room

My girlfriend almost left me cause I'm not emotional

Rather I don't show it well enough for us to know we're cool

I think I might have anxiety but I'm approachable

I think I would read more Bible if it had colloquial

Been a bit more wary of people on podiums

Appropriation is only what I find colonial

They conversate to fight and never to get a long

Other side these white dudes mad like they're not provoking you

Edison in my veins, drums inside my ear

Found medicine in my pain, and salt inside my tears

Found it hard to stay away but harder to disappear

All I want you to know is I'ma always be here

For you