Upstream

By Unify Collective

Released on December 14, 2018

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[Pre Chorus]:

Where do I go?

Where

Oh where do I go?

Life one big moat

I row

I row

I dunno

They tell me I tell them no

They tell me I tell them no

[Verse 1]:

Weeping soul

Which direction

Look in the mirror

Reflection questions

Everything that you wish

Or demise

Bright like sunrise

Cold as wintertime

Free as eagles wings

Soaring 'round mountains peak

Yeah

I am confided

My precious time

For nickels and dimes

Freedom

Outta sight outta mind

Treason

They laugh as I'm dreamin'

Schemin'

As I comply

Nine-to-five

Dead end job

No money for Mom cause

What've I become?

What've I become?

I control my fate

Never too late

No regrets

At the gates of judgment

Yet I feel an abundance as

I deliver you all of my substance

Competing with beings redundant

Enough of em

Frontin' as somethin' they're not

Stop

Dumb down my flow

Average joe

Feel on my pain with

Each stroked evoked

Emotions not cloaked

Less of a man cause I do so

Standards to upkeep in

A bleak society which

Claims its free

Yet many boundaries are

In place

Economics, race, hate

Hey, wait

Make a change

Whether small

Or great

But do not wait too long

For the moment tends

To fly away

Yeah

Watch it fly

[Chorus] x3:

Where do I go?

(Where do I go)

Life one big moat

I row

I row

I dunno

They tell me I tell them no

They tell me I tell them no

[Verse 2}:

Who to be?

The man they want

Or the man I dream?

Watchin' wheels spin

'round and 'round

They don't care for lyrics

Only the sound

My message something

Like a ground and pound

Get it through ya head

I make the bed in which

I sleep

Drowning in the these

Thoughts that overcome

Me

When I die don't bury

Me

Lemme be free with the

Sea

Don't forget my soliloquies

So I'll be more than entity

Yeah

Roaming within the infinity

Where the lost souls are lurking

(Ugh!)

Enough of my sulking

Say that I'm crazy

That I am lazy

I like creating

Be another break in the wall like y'all?

Nah

I rather stand tall

Give it all I got

You support flops

I'm cream of the crop

I can't tell y'all apart

With your motives of greed

My motives with heart

Place me in a box

With no escape

Well I'll find out a way

As dig through the cave

Darkness retreats

Light beams the way

I hear what they say

That they don't like James

Cause they can't mold me

Like I am clay

I only

Wanna

Create

Tell me that I can't

I'll show you that I can

Don't show me no love

Then shake on my hand

Shores of our pinnacle

One day we will land

But for now we will plan

Middle finger to the man

If you don't get it now

You'll never understand

[Ending Chrous] x2:

Where do I go?

Life one big moat

I row

I row

I dunno

(row, row, I row)

They tell me I tell them no

(tell me I tell them no)

(I'm trying to find myself)