Forever (feat. Julian Dillon)

Twenty nine months, ain't that a lifetime ago?

The first three sixty five are retrospectively percepted slow

I substitute the known with knowledge picked up the go

Plenty hurt, no dearth of losses, shame burnt in me fifth degree, kid

This world is so insane, things are too easy to blame

I got no interest in same, those misses calibrate the aim

Became a scholar of mistakes under guidance of the pain

Foresee a danger in mundane, remain invigored by a change

I like shaking up the foundation to test the strength against a quake

Set to educate awake, waging crusade on the fake things

Luxury is poverty, wealth's what isn't bothering

I'm redefining harmony from in the mind to out of me

My loyalty was worthless, used to be cost-free, but

As of recently, I bill and tax a maintenance fee

All the hatred, fear, and anger keep me vacant of salvation

Until changing up behavior begot wisdom reigning nature

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever

The Ten Thousand Things changed, a new million lanes created

Way too many things changed to continue ancient ways

When every law and rule changed, it's difficult to find the way, yet

There is nothing that can change my destination, this is fate

If I had a common brain, probably settle down and stay,

Always wondering, regretting all the things I wasn't getting

But, I rather sound insane than to keep expecting same

Bid a farewell to the comfort, tripping to an unknown place

Before immersing words in verse, I verify I'm first to scribe it

Momentum ever climbing, never felt a purpose higher

As I take the stuff I suffer, sire something from the fire

Temper ire into iron and deniers into clients

Lessons of my negligence developed into reverence

Synapses mixed with elements compounding into relevance

Exodus of emphasis brings precipice of excellent

One by one, the sands drip, counting down to something big

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever

That someone you could become is costing everything you love

You got you dragging teeth in mud, seeking rot to saw it off

First step is leaving who you've become to become who you are

Taking cuts n' bumps n bruises, punctures, hits n' stone cold stunners

Learning to roll right with the punches, both the deserved and the sucker

Took a bunch of nothing, grind refined it into something

Lot of tumbles, enough rumbles, make you tough n' supple

Too much thinking causing trouble, so, I'm skipping past the huddle

I bake in layers on the anthems, turning haters into phantoms

Greater than Constantius's old man or a Deep State Vatican scandal

Most'll hear and listen merely then declare that they do not feel me

Just a few will understand me, fewer still are standing with me

For a guy with trouble sleeping, I spent a heap of weeks asleep

Better late than never, eyes ajar, they finally see

These days, I cannot sleep, but it's for different reason

I get dizzy on this pillow keeping tally of the sheep

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever

I changed, it was messed up

Went through the fire, and rain, now I'm better

All this pain, taught a lesson

Give up never, here's to forever