It builds me up

It breaks me down

I still get up

And move around

Every day is your first day

Let's paint the town

'Cause when I get up

Can't feel the ground

Inner peace type visions

Prisons have walls

The white walls on my Lincoln got miles

Envisioning night falls

The day has gone wild

The sky it falls down

Like the eyes of a tired child

So where so do we go then?

And what are we supposed to do?

Cling to your home, kin

Those that'll hold you

In the old days the things that would fold you

Would be attacked

You'd be avenged like some old fool

See we was born free of a burden

Soar the more we learning

Molded by the whole wide world

The cold turning

And die with broken shoulders

Weight of a life of lived

Some live longer

Because some of us stay kids

We all have our own religion

Don't all keep the faith

That's why I got visions

I need to meditate

De La Soul said we have the highest of stakes

Sometimes coming in is the greatest escape

It builds me up

It breaks me down

I still get up

And move around

Every day is your first day

Let's paint the town

'Cause when I get up

Can't feel the ground

We all wish for small bits of solace

To flitter and fall

Swish

Whisk away all this

So when venomous thoughts slither 'cross your conscience

Just drop the blades and straight shave the nonsense

I've been trained on conquests that'll tame confidence

In my lane, no contest

An insane optimist

In a populace of popular kids with the props and positive gifts

I'm about as odd as it gets

Honest

I'm on this

Neurotic sonic accomplice

Counterculture responsive

Contemplating the ominous

With a prominence that astonishes ponderous honor-less hominids Out for dollars and dominance I'ma spit

But is that as hot as it gets?

On some ecologist shit

It ain't quite a sauna but this climate gotcha bothered a bit

Like breathing with a wet towel over your mouth

Arctic jungle

Savage land

Planet disavowed

Out

The rules they don't apply the same to all of us

The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off

The news don't always sound the same to all of us

These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off

The rules they don't apply the same to all of us

The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off

The news don't always sound the same to all of us

These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off

We on the same ship got the same sails

Praying that we don't tip, clinging to the rails

Dealing with the same shit, same junk mail

Sometimes you think you're running but you're an old snail

But that's just relativity, fast with negativity

Blasted for discretions, all connectivity

Last one to the table don't eat? How we living see

First one up the ladder pulls it up, now you're killing me

Damn! 'Cause I'm a positive dude

99% of the time, I'm in a positive mood

Tell me that I have to walk a mile - the most colossal of shoes

I may be a fool, but I'm on the move

It's true what they say about aiming for the moon

Stop following these stars we got work to do

We learn as we go, and just trying to follow rules

But sometimes these rules prevent you from being you

It builds me up

It breaks me down

I still get up

And move around

Every day is your first day

Let's paint the town

'Cause when I get up

Can't feel the ground

It builds me up

It breaks me down

I still get up

And move around

Every day is your first day

Let's paint the town

'Cause when I get up

Can't feel the ground

The rules they don't apply the same to all of us

The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off

The news don't always sound the same to all of us

These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off

The rules they don't apply the same to all of us

The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off

The news don't always sound the same to all of us

These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off