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Took a few years to be profi(phe)tless
Now I'm way too smart to be confident
Too plain to gain a name or a flock from this
Claim brains way too often to be stopping yet
You say we ain't the same, I'm saying the opposite
On the stage is where I'll stay until I call it quits
Talking trash like "run it back,"
Heads is what I'm lopping at
You prolly stack, towers of bullshit
I'm finna topple that
You built it years ago, an image of your hero, though
Somewhere along the road you traded it in for dinero so
The mirror broke, the smashed glass ain't here, I hope
You traded it in for some cash or ass or pounds of louder smoke Shouting "now get louder" at a crowd who shouting "nope"
When I get up there they'll reach for air like they some drowning folks Poking holes in all the plastic rap they're smothered in
Half the battle's over once you're stuttering
Other kids are running back to me for packs of blasphemy
Pleading please relieve us of these diseases we've contracted happily Matter of fact, wack don't happen naturally
Happens when you got the kinda stats the fattest cats could see
Then they see you got a dream you want as bad as me
But with their means they could take it, make it a reality
Put you in a gallery they built with my taxes
Yeah you got images, but you ain't photograph shit

I only do this out of habit
Get a little drunk, bump the needle like an addict
Find a new rhythm in the skips, try to stab it
The big hairy bastards flipping harder than a backflip
Take a step back so you can grasp it
Realize I only rap cause I can't match pitch
Only two things I'm proud of and that's a fact, kid
One of them's my dog, the other hasn't happened

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from Cheap Drinks, Poor Lighting, released April 4, 2017

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