Everything I been holding inside of my melanin

Has made me who I am aye, made me who I am

Insecurities all up inside of my head I went from being focused on the wrong things

To focused on my own wings

There’s a billion others like me but I feel like I am legend

Mentality’s infectious, now I live like I’m a legend

I do this everyday so I can teach myself a lesson

My value’s not at face and my value won’t be lessened

It’s taken a lot from me

It’s the shit I missed out on, for me

Oh it’s taken a lot from me

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m chasing

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh oh

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m facing

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh

It’s wrong of me to lose touch with family back home yeah

It’s wrong that I can never talk to ma in my mother tongue yeah

There’s better sons than me out there, but I’ll make sure I was worth it

And it doesn’t mean that I don’t water my roots, I just grew out of it

As I tried to find my way in a western world

It’s not her fault I changed, it was just the world

But the good thing is my taste won’t ever, won’t ever fade

Got some bangles and some hips, then I’m about to get played

It’s taken a lot from me

It’s the shit I missed out on for me

Oh it’s taken a lot from me

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m chasing.

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh oh

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m facing

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh

I’m so wide awake, wide awake, wide awake

Thinking how I changed, how I’ve changed, how I’ve changed

Society taught me that your value’s written on your face

Even when you try to fit in, they try to put you in your place

Let me show you what’s under the hood

Let me show you that I’m just as good

Let me show you the way that you should

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m chasing

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh oh

Every night I think about the same things

Every night I think of what I’m facing

Every night they keep me up, the same things, oh oh