[Intro]

Yeah

Had a crazy dream

[Verse 1]

Back when I was just a little one

Little dumb son, super innocent

I was looking to get past the minimum

The curriculum was a pendulum

Swinging bullshit back at citizens

These pages are dated, get rid of 'em

I ain't signed up for your twisted version of the truth

Boot it to Kingdom Come

I'm a free-thinking child, speak with a style

You might not think me the ideal

I would disagree, bitch I'm quite real

Get your eyes peeled to the fly wheel

'Cause it took me a while to get woke up

To just who i am in this wholе crust

I know I can't stop growing old but

I can hold up who I don't trust 'cause

[Chorus]

Since I was young

I didn't want to be likе anyone

Teacher told me I should tighten up

But what the fuck?

I only know how to be me

Blue-collared kinda rhymer

Battle with the rottweilers

They just kept saying to me

Son, be all you can be

But really, I only just wanna be me

[Verse 2]

Sleeping inside of the classroom

I was scribbling words in my notebook

Making beats on the table like slap, boom

I was trying to get off the whole hook

All this bullshit they was teaching us

Was the reason I kept getting mentioned

I just wanted some time for writing my rhymes

They gave me internal suspension

I was hold up, doing no drugs

Until a few other folks showed up

I got soaked up in the fold cuz

I just wanted to fit in oh so much

Oh please, oh won't you just let me be free?

'Cause I'm hiding my nature to fit in this forest

But truly it just isn't me, you see?

[Chorus]

Since I was young

I didn't want to be like anyone

Teacher told me I should tighten up

But what the fuck?

I only know how to be me

Blue-collared kinda rhymer

Battle with the rottweilers

They just kept saying to me

Son, be all you can be

But really, I only just wanna be me

[Verse 3]

Woke up from a nightmare

I was reliving all of my school days

When I didn't know whether I cared

About who's way or what crews say

Give me new space now, I'm all grown

I know just who the opposite minds are

Logging knee-deep into side bars

I'm in five-stars kicking live hearts, shit

But I've been patiently waiting to reflect on these old days

Didn't know how to get the gold space

Had a time stone and a swole case

Of the rhyme flow, when he showcased

There's plenty MCs in the yard

I let minds go, after flow shakes

Nobody would step to the God

Now everybody but my fam'

Told me rap and bands never could just be my job

I kept tracking jams til them clapping hands

Was just working for me on the clock

Just kept packing fans with no backup plan

I just found it so terribly odd

How can they back a man who don't stack a damn

I've been knowing I wanted applause, yeah

[Chorus]

Since I was young

I didn't want to be like anyone

Teacher told me I should tighten up

But what the fuck?

I only know how to be me

Blue-collared kinda rhymer

Battle with the rottweilers

They just kept saying to me

Son, be all you can be

But really, I only just wanna be me

[Post-Chorus]

Just wanna be me

Just wanna be me

Just wanna be me

But really I only just wanna be me

Really I only just wanna be me