Touch the Sky

Yeah Check Come on I heard through the grapevine you're looking for me Asking how I was doing and where I might be I know it's been a while since you seen a friend But experience changed my ambience I swore I saw myself in an ambulance Armstrong, kinda like the Tour de France Lost a little time, but I made amends Gained confidence and I'm confident You know how it goes when time just flies When you're sitting in coach and you're staring at the aisles There's someone in first class who looks like you But a better lookin' version with a better lookin' crew Think about all the time accrues When you think about and just think about Think about what you gon' do And all the strife you're gonna go through Found myself there too many times Too many nights, wasting too many rhymes Rick James, my lyrics lost too many lines Turned my head and missed too many signs In the darkness light is hard to find But in that light, yo it's hard to shine Sunrays don't reach around here In the basement and walls built the fear Escalating but no one dares Sometimes I gotta mask myself Don't think, try to ask myself How I'm doin', what I'm doin', when I'm doin' it Too much thought, might ruin it The experience in the journey is imperative But it's better to be a character who can narrate Than a narrator who can't relate Put your hands up And lift that dream Tonight you're gonna be a star So let your light beam Touch the sky Touch the sky Touch the sky Put your hands up And lift that dream Tonight you're gonna be a star So let your light beam Touch the sky Touch the sky Touch the sky It feels so good to be back on this mic With this mic in my hand, yo, I'm back in the right, right I'm running towards the finish line, back to the light Time to double up like a package of rice No more, I'm feeling like a villain 'cause I'm givin' up Never giving up 'cause I'm real as what I'm a real boy better than Pinocchio Puff, puff, give like Toyko I'm tryin', I'm movin' with the heart of a lion I see the sun set in front of me, I'm not gon' stop 'Cause I know when it rises I'ma ride it to the top Spittin' words to its rays, so it's gotta be hot But it's hard, holding on keeping your guard Sometimes you gotta believe what you don't see, like God I know it's hard when you're battling the stars Not the ones on TV, but the ones in the sky To my broke ass friends, throw your ones in the sky To my broke ass friends, we the ones, I gotta try 'Cause when the shit hits the fan, we the first one to die The government's addicted and we're the supply Selling crack to our own, tryna make it to the top Come around my way, homie, when the propane stops You gettin' gassed, huh, I ain't gon' lie It's hard not to see the shit when you can't afford two-ply But when it costs too much to get here, can't afford to die Not I, I can't leave my kids with nada That's the burden on my chest in the form of a gun The disappointment just a bullet that will be shot by my son For all the times I didn't listen and decided to run For all the times I didn't learn from my life experience The worst events Make you feel like you gon' die Those are the ones that make you stronger And that's why I, I say Put your hands up And lift that dream Tonight you're gonna be a star So let your light beam Touch the sky Touch the sky Touch the sky Put your hands up And lift that dream Tonight you're gonna be a star So let your light beam Touch the sky Touch the sky Touch the sky