Verse 1 when i rapped i was breathing beats i was fiend’n late stayed awake on my tape was the reason time kinda froze and the mind stayed still only thing i wrote was how the night felt real   never good at grades and i never said much by the time I graduated I was almost stuck punched in my gut when my homies all left and the only thing i felt was a ‘hey good luck’ am I alone in this journey? Stuck by myself? write another verse but it hurts in the cell? punch in my nine to five then get my check then the only thing left’s to drink till I’m well? done… then I’ll pass.. cause this high here never lasts.. but I’m this here close to giving up on this   and I don’t really know if I’m finished yet… Hook If i never even make it home on this road that im walking alone i will never give up my soul cause we’re fighters fighters fighters Even if i can’t see your face and my whole dream ended today I will give it all just to say I’m a fighter, fighter, fighter Verse 2 I told them ‘see ya later’ but i never let it go holding onto God when my world feeling cold bout to lose it all if i think it could ball in a one on one pickup if im bargaining my soul never do that cause i never want something lose it in a minute and it aint worth loving felt it all before and the feelings ain’t right tell me why tonight got me holding on tight night night got to put it down gotta tell myself that the demons all around and they really fiend’n hard for my heart to be parted so i got to reach harder like my part restarted reach higher never lose the fire i know that I’m only here for a minute then I’m gone will I even make it till the end of this song? I don’t really know but I feel like i belong in it Hook If i never even make it home on this road that im walking alone i will never give up my soul cause we’re fighters fighters fighters Even if i can’t see your face and my whole dream ended today I will give it all just to say I’m a fighter, fighter, fighter Verse 3 one of these days man the music gone leave gotta say goodbye while the tank is on E will i still fiend for beats like i really want to eat Will the part of me treat this defeat like a peace or is it really defeat - i dont even know yet   did I make an impact - did i meet ya soul yet? chillin in ya mind with this song on playing a picture of myself when I fell down saying everybody gotta reach deeper than they ever did do it for the future kids gotta move never quit   when they tie me down and my hands aint move never gone lose what we said all true got a bunch of tape and they tie it all around us can’t be stopped - so they try to kick and pound us so we fight em back with these sounds of the soul curtains moving up cause we never gone fold - no! Hook If i never even make it home on this road that im walking alone i will never give up my soul cause we’re fighters fighters fighters Even if i can’t see your face and my whole dream ended today I will give it all just to say I’m a fighter, fighter, fighter

Verse 1 This island is cold - I tried to decide or to fight it the parts i confided are cyphers that finally cited a bunch of mirrors that show you youre more than worth it and tourists are told to twerk and these verses are all deserted its like a chase and I constantly try to see it by the time I try to leave i done breathed and i’m all conceited And so i tell myself excuses laid in apathy like it’s not me its just their view and it’s sad to me that they can’t tell that this real song is upon them whats wrong - is that words are now more used as a coffin instead of a vessel that could take time that’ll test you and teach what it means to be headstrong when it’s stressful yeah, I guess it’s old school that I think that to see life as music when i press play i could breathe wax And so I inhale it inside of my lungs now throw both of my hands up while I’m raising the whole crowd Hook I am lightning can you see me flash down can you hear my thunder sound lighting up a black cloud Lightning I will not be stopped now I’m gonna light it up for all to see I light up the world for all to see Verse 2 It’s like I been here before, It’s not my first time why did I drive along the side of my whole mind when I wasn’t even ready well, I don’t know why The only thing that I know is that my whole life wasn’t all mine and now it’s back I feel the sunlight on my face on this island, by myself - and i flashback to the place that I used to know back when it was 94’ rap trapped inside my system - i would seek ears just to listen now i got some but the problem is gotham I would fly high with my cape cold make em see fall like im autumn and then I pull off to the side just to remind all myself that this whole life is a ride journey i see sand dunes all around me to count all would be craziness but each spec is a story and so i listen with my ears glued to the tube while the waves circle around me there’s no sound but it’s coo Hook I am lightning can you see me flash down can you hear my thunder sound lighting up a black cloud Lightning I will not be stopped now I’m gonna light it up for all to see I light up the world for all to see Verse 3 we all start off with a vision for our lives and then we slowly let it die - is it pressure? is it lies? is it my ride - that i don’t fit the conventional nine to five? that i don’t care bout big rocks that’ll shine bright in the sky? when then? did i give you a high five when you decided to arrive into this new world like a Myan? huh? you said you’d change this - had enough! hold it but my peers they make like 50k plus and I can’t stand how I’m looked at If I dont match where they’re headed dread it i get it come kill all my credits I might as well just surrender got my head down im infested and i don’t know why i do this and second guess all my weapons I know I’m gifted - I know i made it here i know the easy route looked nice but i took the stairs and now I’m climbing and I’m holding onto the truth and I’m holding onto the cycle that is leading back to a ‘you’ Hook I am lightning can you see me flash down can you hear my thunder sound lighting up a black cloud Lightning I will not be stopped now I’m gonna light it up for all to see I light up the world for all to see

(Verse 1) Right now, my mind state is irrational - I think back but my past circulates around you.... all the pictures that I've deleted from my cell phone i wish there was a button for my heart but thats a 'well, no..' on second thought - this was crafted from our innocence been friends for so long this goes back to our youth.. you exemplified what a real centered sister was i never thought twice, liked or even pictured love walks around the lake take this pass let it go once dinner by the beach treat this season like a cold front my heartstrings stayed protected when i played it slowly we grew closer but in truth this was still platonic i never thought about the future or the stage that it set the page that was next checked this was based in respect until emotions started rushing it in falling for one of my best friends is this how it begins? (Hook) Whenever I close my eyes.. I picture you I'm saying 'good-bye' - I slip, I trip, I fall I cannot stop no, not at all Baby now can't you stay? Maybe we could make a way... (Verse 2) Whats love? that's the question that I ponder on jamming out to Chaka Khan head bob'n I nod along so If I'm wrong let it go by and then pass me I stay lost to distract me I want her like I'm Gatsby... But I know that It's poison and it's eating my soul so If i take another swig then i could die from it... give me the bottle of heartbreaks anonymous I take shots to swallow with my flesh bones and cartilage.. but I don't sink see I'm thinking in blots how many times have I thought that this train gotta stop but it wont.. why? Guess I'm addicted to pain i know that It's not good but It's sort of engrained in my mind so when i say no my whole life's in reversal.. and when i walk its like I'm standing in place... how many times have I seen this - the cycle ensues I'm lost and I kinda like it cause the ending is you..ooh.. (Hook) Whenever I close my eyes.. I picture you I'm saying 'good-bye' - I slip, I trip, I fall I cannot stop no, not at all Baby now can't you stay? Maybe we could make a way... (Verse 3) I see a screen and the whole play's a rehearsal the lights flash in a circle and I'm feeling the chills... I got flashbacks to train tracks laid in Washington I play back those late snacks matching cardigans trapped Inside a dream like this whole thing was imagined... So when I wake up my picture's still of you... See every time That I hear your voice, name or reminisce on the places We've been to it makes me feel like we’re through.. So when I walk its like I’m taking on the both of us.. Hope, dreams and the scope of us.. Same team but im over us So I dont think about the big house and the kids all the great things that we did that might impact how I live cause you're gone.. And I'm tried of steady blaming myself matter of fact I'm tired of blame in itself this is love... It's a train that I'm taking every time I'm a passenger my mindstate is Lavender.... (Hook) Whenever I close my eyes.. I picture you I'm saying 'good-bye' - I slip, I trip, I fall I cannot stop no, not at all Baby now can't you stay? Maybe we could make a way...

Verse 1 they say that music is a reflection of the heart yeah and my soul is entrenched into the arts there so regardless of my rhyme schemes or flow for this record i take the lessons from my life and write life with this second its so simple but its hard for me to understand plans that are beyond my comprehension my mom used to love the fact that i played on the keys but the second the piano spoke life and became my degree it had to stop why? because it didn't fit right count the endless nights where the whole dream was a fist fight enticed by the immigrant mindset it's sick ridiculous beats that i played stayed in my mind state intrinsically and then the passion became my whole symphony i felt the words lift off and became hymns to me and so i patiently paint pain on my page of beats pacing back and forth while this whole port wrestles by the sea Verse 2 they say that music's a gateway to the soul when i remove any blocks that'll chop me down i blossom with benevolence i could sit here for hours paint the whole town from my window oldies on blast with a gold jam that'll spin slow i bump that nujabes jazz hop til infinity until my interest it enters into the energy integrated with matrix slated tasted so fragrantly in the face of tazor razor blading until it's safe to see Or maybe just to breathe i often ponder on pour sales artistically it doesn't register steer clear of the talented right into the vandalists stay paid for the damages what? i guess my mindstates irrational i thought heart was needed and real art was the natural course and then the flavors would pour out with my brothers i love my sisters this whole piece is a picture…. Verse 3 they say that music's a large part of our lives survival of the fittest when i get pushed into the brim of my existence intrinsic alone when its me i and my headphones i take trips where i grip on when i tread low i see the medicine labeled on it is 'heaven sent' thinking back on my genesis slipping back on the elements of what is comfortable growing up feeling negligence papa would strive for excellence artists were always prevalent and so i learned what was taught inside of illmatic a pen as an automatic with portraits as painted classics I had to begin the story of an immigrant Asian American intelligent aided but aint it so relevant? i mean im sick of performance when I've earned the proper letter grade traded my ocean of affection pouring out of me how do i hide this side of me  patiently walking quietly baby i feel you mightily

Verse 1 Sometimes I wonder whats the purpose to this music? Is the whole point of writing just to lend out all my soul  And so I struggle with the pitfalls dangers of being lazy  Burden to impress all my colleagues am I crazy?  Got my eyes off the ball just for a second  And the weapons that I use are now pointed at me directly  You got to make this joint right here whatever is sexy  Copy cat game when its all lame how it checked me  Now I got a moment and its frozen  And the flows just a bottle in the ocean   that’s floated toward the top and your ears keep it there  Heres a questionnaire will it survive another year?  These are battles that I fight when its me, I and my lonesome  And the whole crowd is watching but its all in my head Could I stop and take a moment instead… Cause every breath could be devotions to death  Hook I just want to know - where this art goes so watch me as I go - where my soul will bloom and grow Verse 2 i take a step off the plane and my history stands at a distance  extending both hands like it's welcome me home i got to breathe but the first thing that it tells me is the language that is spoken is evoked by the soul so I had to learn that my heart acts as a speaker  and the language that i speak are in melodical notes quotes like a child born to grow  in a new different city not the light path that he chose so  in my hand i got my pen pad and my heartache and my bands got their heart out when we all play   its just a part of the lifestyle of a canvas  we call ourselves that cause its Lord God that'll use us and so we push through the tainted glass mahogany its hard to see through my fear filmed photography I'm just a piece thats been searching for the picture  when i find it i reply with a ‘hi’ cause i missed her - hey Hook I just want to know - where this art goes so watch me as I go - where my soul will bloom and grow Verse 3 if theres a passion in your heart than you better walk at a distance  cause bad vibes will get you when you're walking alone whats beautiful’s when its crafted and grown  I hear the strings to my city and Im reminded of home yeah I love the breath that i take whenever my plane lands  its so pure that my mind state is like Amen  what a trip that as a kid steady writing  i be flying round the world how is that part of my gameplan?  i dont know but i don't believe that it was just chance  i dont believe that michael jackson wants to just dance  he was the smoothest so for those who never seen him  posters on my wall he was moonwalking on the ceiling and then i felt the chills take me  took me on a journey man this spaceships crazy now i pass it to the passionate youth  just a portion of the picture how the passionate grew Hook I just want to know - where this art goes so watch me as I go - where my soul will bloom and grow

Verse 1 i'm patiently breathing - painting on papers the ceiling  paced to traces of reason tasted like freedom on weekends i cant get enough of the month of thats close to december  cause the longer i linger - closer to the hurt i remember  i wish we had the chance to talk more but now i've grown  to understand the purpose of life ignited from  offshore conversations with my grandaddy - visions of bombings  without the proper surroundings bodies laying i vomit and with the changing of topics i could see the logic of saving  anything that comes my way - aint no room to run away  in a safe guarded zone - aint no labor to underplay just a couple expensive cars and a dream that we gave away and so I try to live where my reason is like a mirror the times i make it clearer my Jesus i need You nearer  in a moment i could leave, please, freeze and I'm frozen  in just a motion this is over like a wave in the ocean no coastin  Hook in a safe guarded zone - aint no labor to underplay  just a couple expensive cars and a dream that we gave away  Verse 2 i feel the scissors its coming closer to crazily to cut me  dressed in a tinted mercedes bated with 'baby you're lovely'   forget the matching purse and the person you want to be   a better life you'll never see - in these streets you'll never flee never think about leaving believing in my gentlemen  they'll grab you by the abdomen and stomp you like an elephant  and drag you by the hair - where - throw you like skeletons  and in a minute i will drug you with medicine  dont you ever think about leaving - nobody cares  if they did they would save you but you're kissing in here  if i could tell you whats been running through my mind  as an adolescent intelligent beautiful girl designed  love is non existent - my body has been a weapon  laced with m80 machine guns that'll fire the second  and in a moment i could die cry holding to prayer  i know He hears me so i'm holding Him near - here  Hook if i could tell you whats been running through my mind  as an adolescent intelligent beautiful girl designed  Verse 3 you said you love me so baby come on and just hold me tighter  without the flashing of lighters blasting we crashing like fighters what happened to the love and the way that our bodies touch  everytime our shoulders brushed you could never get enough  and now its nothing cause them other girls are wanting your attention i feel the tension when i think about the damage  we're bringing upon the bandage thats holding our hearts in balance  and every single massage is like a knife that just landed - enough!   i told myself the pain wasn't real…. now the razor blades are cutting and im feeling the steel and while the blood is dripping down im just thinking about the night while we laid there in the light and my body was feeling tight you told me just to trust you and that we would get married  and now the times are kinda scary - and my heart is feeling buried tried to tell myself that this moment is just emotional  broken its hard to focus and potions I'd rather overdose..  Hook 
tried to tell myself that this moment is just emotional 
broken its hard to focus and potions I'd rather overdose..

Verse 1  I could die before i wake - i wish this whole place was just made up  when i sleep i feel awake i feel the grenades that’ll shake up  and my faith is just the reason that they pin point as my treason   tie down all my dreams to their regimes while I’m beaten  I’m only six but whats sick is this ridiculous nature  they took a razor to my best friend and then raped her  i watched as they poured blood on a child from his own father  he was murdered while they tried to take his faith… I seen his face and he reminded me of poppa   who properly popped monsters and would tuck me in at night  before i slept he would tell me that he loved me  its the same thing that he said before they took away his life.. so when i close my eyes i see a place of happiness  no more of this apathy, pure love and we’ll bask in it - yes i can’t wait, wait its my turn for the cameras -  but before you see me die wont you join and hold my hand?? Hook (Sarah Lee) Where you will go, I wont say no  The light is a road that's drifting me slow  and when i see darkness I'll hold on where you will go i wont say no - I wont say no  Verse 2 (Heesun Lee) Throwing up from all the tragedy's that's blowin up  growing up in places facing persecution makes it hard for us hard enough to stand for truth when groups of killers start with us  guarding hearts hope the light of God now will spark some love there's hope for us in the midst of evil doers  you see right through us yearning for a second chance that's creeping through us  i live in a corner of warzones and poor bones bodies breaking on a daily basis if your home's reflecting this I empathize - my pain is televised people overseas watch the news and they hear our cries - hear our goodbyes seeing families torn apart  born apart from civilized society that's how our morning's start  still my strength is very high - envision heaven next to me that's  what I'm living by - God's alive inside of me I'm praying for some light to shine know there's better days ahead of me in this life of mine  Hook (Sarah Lee) Where you will go, I wont say no  The light is a road that's drifting me slow  and when i see darkness I'll hold on where you will go i wont say no - I wont say no  Verse 3 when i was six i would tell myself that the good would always win  whether it’s undertaker with a pin or double dragon’s revenge  and now the spotlights steady shining on my people now that are dying..   and what’s the goal of this whole life whats the meaning?  of survival - is it vital - to really hold on to my Bible  to pray to my God daily - will he heal me - see revival?  i hope so cause my windpipes in a chokehold  i poke holes through the window just to see past what is local but it’s dim is it sin or just the systematic entrapment of  my people - do i fight back - what is evil?  it’s really hard to imagine how mankind can be like that And so i hold on to my sister cause shes scared  in just a moment i could feel the world disappear  and then im floating off to a distance - i say bye to my prison  peace when you held me in my sleep  I held onto my future with a “He saves” to my shooter  Hook x2

Verse 1 They said to ‘wake up now’ but I dont want to It’s time to crack that safe and so i called you you know the keycode type it in and lets go no ones gonna see you we gone burn slow on the fresh coast.. and then we’ll take this chop it up and inhale it push us to the limit take it test this you know you want to you cant lie to me fam… I been there since day one first song you a made man i know you see me every time that you fallen and i been there to remind you man, ‘you an idol’ I’m your friend.. I hope you do well we can shoot a couple strippers just to boost sales you see that pole ain’t so polar opposite its just a post of compliments that’ll toast your confidence and so I’m in here posting in your ear drum hoping that you’ll listen on that moment when that fear comes Hook 1 she look pretty don’t she sorta make you want her? we could have it if you answer go ahead and get up on her and plus my eyes are closed nobody gonna see us what you afraid of? this is freedom stop debating go and feed us Verse 2  what it is man? You gonna kill yourself? you see this ladder ain’t so tall when you take a smell i want that inhale deep inside ya lungs type forget what having funs like tonight jump right into the pit you will never see the light of day hey want to stay by my side we could taste away i got that potion i’m your safety net I’m the homie even if you can’t pay me yet Don’t you remember?! the summer back when you were messing with that girl see i never said a thing.. and now you really fell in love and got a ring.. but tell me what would happen if I were to spill it she would leave you i could kill this dont you get it i am in it.. and you are finished if you ever try to leave me cant no-body came and save you you’re a prisoner of me G take a couple moments just to breathe and make it easy - easy Hook 2 it feel good don’t it? every time you get this not a lot of people make it to this point so don’t go waste it forget the high this is higher than your average the only ones to manage it are you and me lets handle it   Verse 3 hold up see i hear you in the mirror every time you speak i could tell too by the weakness see your favorite sword to use is the one laced with deception.. and in a second I will swing back with the proof you see the truth is when you feel your grip loosen you cruise in with the nooses but still it’s translucent and so you panic and you throw back all my slip ups like the first time i fell but the point is i was picked up…   and that sickens you don’t lie to me you tried to hold me down with self hate philosophies like a cage and I’m wrestlling the hitman hart with the sharpshooter sinking down like quicksand back and I’m climbing top of the ropes escaping through the roof truth let it go the only time I’m free Is when i trust in my creator savior, maker, saber, lasers Hook 3 i keep imagining that one day I will get there when I’m battling myself it makes it sorta hard to see but in my dreams I am holding onto levers that’ll pull me off the center under pressure feeling peace

Verse 1  I remember when i was younger i would think fast to the future  like I just passed all my classes and i back racked like I’m luger  And nah not a strap but the lex luger on TV  the sharpshooter would feed me these beats dropped on a CD  I would dream whats the team with the best ring psychology  the change wrapped inside of me but I’m thinking a new  who? I never knew what laid ahead of my new nintendo  just double dragon 2 I would slay back in my youth  now a days i think back - and the tricky thing thats about it  I understand the nostalgic but time is moving without it  and though it’s childish as a kid i would wish that i’d grow faster  and now my past has got a way with catching up showing up inside my pieces like peace out to my thesis  let’s sneak out of the system and freestyle with the beasts   and eat what better way than to cash out with a vengeance  but then there i just stop cause I’m right here in the moment…  Hook  Got my homies all around me independent  in a minute I could finish but I’m feeling alright Got another city got another flight another morning drive  but at the moment this is only midnight  I’m living the right now, loving the right now  digging the right now, feeling the right now gotta get right now.. I aint missing the right now   Verse 2  often times on this road that I travel down I’m alone  with my thoughts and a sixteen a super dope beat is a bonus  I treat my last show like the last one that I’m rockin  and stop to draw a map of the fat track that I’m dropping see it’s hard to live now - perceptions of later   My grandmama shows love - and my hearts to repay her  see every time that we draw words a part of our lives show  a part of us let go and a part of it’s all soul  so when push comes to shove and the numbers come to define us  I turn on all my blinders and I recline in my liner Chill  cause I ain’t worried bout the future  tired of spending time while I’m running it through and through  what i do know is I’m passionate not phased by the lavishness life  we eat beats like we feast deep on some savageness   But thats a part of the lifestyle that I’m cut from   so forget living then I will live now this is awesome Hook  Got my homies all around me independent  in a minute I could finish but I’m feeling alright Got another city got another flight another morning drive  but at the moment this is only midnight  I’m living the right now, loving the right now  digging the right now, feeling the right now gotta get right now.. I aint missing the right now   Verse 3 I got my cell phone off - I got my screen closed and I’m unplugged I got my team close - human love and its all trust  I got the time to really sit back and just be me  and thinking about now is like my way out and to breathe peace  it feels good and my inhale encapsulates traces of my honesty  dropped off is the part of me - that is still stuck in the negativity time zone i kick flip with the smooth quickness and grind on  It don’t stop i got my legs out and the windows down I roll around with my W's up cause i love my town  I love this city - I love my people  i love the cultures and to breathe art beneath the needle  it’s so simple that it makes light of the darkness   I got lost in the march of a hard heart but I forfeited  And now I stand knowing future problems are there  but until then I leave it - got my peace now and I’m here… Hook  Got my homies all around me independent  in a minute I could finish but I’m feeling alright Got another city got another flight another morning drive  but at the moment this is only midnight  I’m living the right now, loving the right now  digging the right now, feeling the right now gotta get right now.. I aint missing the right now  

Verse 1 i got my head down, kinda thinking deep about the life i live about to go to sleep and think about all the reasons why i do this   when i write another record it replenishes my music and then I'm captured in the newness and the news is kinda foolish and i miss the pure bliss when i would wake up at six just to catch the new flicks things are different - and I can't quite imagine it there was a difference between dull and passionate and now it seems when I'm jotting down my dreams what used to be a sixteen are seams to intervene and its coo, thats the reason its there when i feel it in my soul man the reason is clear when I'm driving in the nighttime my heart in the clouds i just turn my speakers up loud get lost in the sounds Hook (Sam Ock) I want to dance, I want to sing I want to live the way that I was always meant to be So let us see - so I’ll get up and go Verse 2 I like to make em dance, i like to make em sing i like to make em jump, like to make em think i like to bring em even closer to themselves though unleash they inner artist you could tweet me on ya cell phone and then I'll hit you right back when I'm vibin on the floor and i hear the right track it makes me go crazy why? maybe all the records heard lately got me doing 180's i love the metaphors, I love the similes i love the flow that contorts pure symmetry i love the different - my love is different i love the brave who'll rage against the system cause thats the reason that we're making this music aint it? there's a purpose for the person that personally plays this and if that person is you I want you to stay up til the mission is through Hook (Sam Ock) I want to dance, I want to sing I want to live the way that I was always meant to be So let us see - so I’ll get up and go Verse 3 I like my keyboards, i love that backdrop you already know that I like my jazz-hop i like it dirty too and got to love the south I love to bump my Cali sounds when I'm in-n-out shout out to that Trebles and Blues wdup my homie got a bunch of records of classics and man I'm on it I don't really care if my music is off the center when I'm listening to Mayer man i bid you adieu and stop growing thats a bad thing though you got to get a bit of soul with that Nat King Cole and fly it out to the east with the tribe called quest with that biggie, big L and that N-A-S and I'm feeling no stress, music through my speakers without being complex you got to slow it down once feel it through your system while you feel your heart jump jump jump! Hook (Sam Ock) I want to dance, I want to sing I want to live the way that I was always meant to be So let us see - so I’ll get up and go