HEART

CHORUS

I'm gonna take my lumps and I'm gonna fall behind

I'm gonna get knocked down I'm still unrefined

So many factors holding me back

A lack of self-control I go and react

I fail and fall flat rolling off of the track

As I'm blowing it again another total collapse Feeling I've lost it, ill and exhausted, skeletons

Still in the closet, they're fighting to stay relevant Deterring the life I'm determined to live

When I'm trying to cross over and burn every bridge But I slip into quicksand, twist and can't withstand

 Missions I wish I could skip like a Discman

As any progress slows to a crawl

Then the loll gets to where I'm going nowhere at all

So how do I get out of this paralysis knowing that I'm powerless Guess I build a couple callouses

Day after day scratching away with my faith

Breaking the lock unlatching the cage and I pray

'Cause we're all fashioned in God's likeness

Even though I would not pass the eye-test

I'm so inadequate and you don't know the half of it

I'm swollen 'cause I'm rapping with a shiner and a fattened lip

CHORUS

Because I take my lumps and I'm gonna fall behind

I'm gonna get knocked down I'm still unrefined

I might make a fool of myself I may miss the mark

I'm gonna take my losses But I won't lose heart

Sometime I find myself fading into fatalism

Acting jaded when I'm really just afraid to listen

And in the worst case scenario I get adversarial Disregarding people who I barely know

And it's inane but my will is great so i won't capitulate

Or give away a single inch of real estate

On swampland staking a claim

Watching all my gains circle down straight in the drain Cold and naked so full of hatred

Numb and escaping unmotivated

When it's obvious I'm scared to fail

And put everything on the line like a Para-sail

But it's better to lose a game than be one of the fans And it's better to strike out than to cheer from the stands

I'd rather skin up my knee than to sit on my hands

And I'd rather hunt and starve than to feed with the lambs It's time to get past the masquerade

I've taken a new name like Cassius Clay

When the fight erupts try your luck, stick and move, dive and duck

Break him down, light him up, hit him 'til his eye is shut

Saint Peter took a walk on the sea

But the brother started to sink when he didn't believe

So move and keep stepping don't stop 'til you're done

A change will come, yell it at the top of your lung!

CHORUS