Rent late

And my bus early

Living for the city but clothes still dirty

White boys tryna be hip, act poor

But they could never take the stress of my life, nightly

Oh, they tryna be like me

Find heaven through lightning, don’t care if they don’t like me

They be like, “why you so mad, b?”

I say, “the rich man don’t understand social gravity”

The elevated get it up to their own heart beat

Poor folk get yolked on side street

There’s a new piece of the puzzle

The government tryna get me to wear that muzzle

I remember the days when

I couldn’t afford to lose again

So I cut out the light of my pulse

And tried to ignore the world, again

We are out here tryna survive

While uncle sam is snoring outside

I will smoke the chimneys down to dust

You’ll never see me do it

It’s gone be me and my crew on the edge of the world

You'll never see me do it

You call this open swim

But my kin still drowning

Forget conspiracy it’s clear to see, the simplicity that makes me believe

That I’m wasting my energy, my precious energy, my positive energy, they, they tryna be like me

Waste, wasting my energy, that synchronicity, that vocal symphony, that rhythm mystery, on the edge of the world, we’ll be

I remember the days when

I couldn’t afford to lose again

So I cut out the light of my pulse

And tried to ignore the world, again

We are out here tryna survive

While uncle sam is snoring outside

I will smoke the chimneys down to dust

You’ll never see me do it

It’s gone be me and my crew on the edge of the world

You’ll never see me do it