Yeah, doing this shit for me, gotta keep doing this shit for me

I been working way too hard to keep on doing shit for free, yeah

Doing this shit for me, gotta keep doing this shit for me

I been working way too hard to keep on doing shit for free

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Watching the time pass by on my watch

Praying that I get a second to stop

Trying my best to be catching my breath

But every breath it'll turn to a cough

Wheezing, but I'm still breathing slowly

Pains are pumping away my fears

Felt relief for a single second

Now my second single turned to seven years

Times move slow with eyes on the clock

Racking my brain has been making it rot

Leap of faith right out of my frame

And now they've been putting me back in a box

Steady my aim as I'm keeping my stock

I'm rocking records then I'm wrecking the shop

Recollections resting ready, keeping me off

That train of thought that led tracks off track

Shoulder blades have been cutting deep

From the weight I carry when I'm stepping steep

Uphill, bills stacking up daily

Never have enough, muhfuckers gon' pay me

Patience, work nights and a day shift

9 to 5, drive by, spray my anguish

Danger of giving up, living on anxious

Somehow telling me I'm too audacious

Sick of being walked on, made to wallpaper

Up in the background, quick to forget me

Never back down, never good enough to get me

Man, man, man, life interject me, what?

Bitch gon' butt in, say I'm buzzing, lil' boy, you bugging

Talk my shit, don't mean I'm thuggin'

One in a hundred million, I'm running up a cheque

Don't think I'll ever get a chance to collect

I'm a mess of emotion, confessing I'm broken

I'm blessed but depressed, nevertheless, I be hoping

I'm ready for all of the gates to be opened

Fighting a faded devotion, tryna create a wave in the ocean

Making it shake, not faking the motion

Grateful now till the day that I'm chosen

Yeah, I doing this shit for me, gotta keep doing this shit for me

I been working way too hard to keep on doing shit for free, yeah

Doing this shit for me, gotta keep doing this shit for me

I been working way too hard to keep on doing shit for free, yeah

Talking about it, I'm being about it

Make 'em embarrassed for being a doubter

The Thump in the trunk, my speakers are pounding

If they complain, repeating it louder

So many years, I was putting myself at the bottom of ladders and not on the shelf

Putting my friends on a pedestal, never be questioning what I be having myself

Hand I was dealt was self-inflicted, never gon' call myself a victim

Validation got me addicted, spoke from the heart, my words got twisted

Now it amounted to this, but none of the numbers are counting a bit

I found a route, and now I commit, the less that I listen, the louder it hits

Round in my mental, I'm troubled with this

I been running from pain in a bubble of bliss

I been steering away from another statistic

Not taking it back, gonna run with the risk

Used to be stressing for people, but now I be pushing 'em outta my face

Lifted off all of the burdens

And now I'm reversing the hurt and the doubt by the day, okay? Look

Yeah, yeah

Doing this shit for me, bitch, doing this shit for me

They ain't wan show me love, I gotta let them be