Without Me - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Woke crowds blowing out smoke clouds

Fuck a ghost town and you broke, how?

And I confront any incubus, how would you figure this?

What they make these days, well, they’ve been hit or miss

Mastered the art of consistency

Yeah, you can drop but the missing piece

It won’t be there when you need it most but

Either got it or you don’t, you will be disposed of

Turning pages, earning favors

Making noise like we’re the perpetrators

You don’t do shit, you’re the curtain raisers

In a room that’s filled with impersonators

Shedding light on what I’ve done for years

Dug for treasure, there’s something here

Filtering an email, filtering a DM

They be taking prisoners and frame it as they free them

[Chorus]

You are the source of all

What I avoid, ignore and stall

I cannot provide it further

Standing by these mass observers

I’m conscious but nothing’s recording

Why remember? It’s unrewarding

Now I’m here, I’ve drawn a blank

It’s me or them and who’s to thank?

On the way to my own destination

I’m still alive but I’ve seen better days and

Go on without me, this darkness surrounds me

[Verse 2]

I’m no apprentice so it ain’t new

Pitch me the premise, what do you do?

Building a roster, I don’t need teams

And there’s too many mouths, will the one hand feed?

Wanted it clear, it’s not a myth

Those I have nothing in common with

I don’t entertain them, learn to separate then

Got the freedom to go and to let us say when

Imma be dipping, I pivot, I turn to the side

With no digital fingerprint

Mine’s wiped from the registry, stolen

Live with the remedy, going

Attributed to luck, how I’ve given up

Almost everything, now I’ve split and done

What it is I considered meaningful

Then I push and I shove but I need to pull