Can't take ownership

Further to fall, I know this cliff, I hope you notice me

'Cause I can't see myself, I'm bleedin' simultaneously

Erasin' thoughts, my racing heart can't lay my head to sleep

The way ahead, like Archie Shepp, the herd of countless sheep

The crown was stripped to pieces

The stake remains, not free to roam, I can't be on a leash

Mona Lisa eyes will follow me around a tomb, my mama womb the safest place for me

It ain't no goin' back, I've sewn the gash, and shown myself deceit

Don't you hold me back, the furthest front was once a bloody heap

My reddest glare, a hyperbolic choice is within reach

Just let me go, or keep me here, 'til suffer such a need

Have you ever dreamt awake, you can't recall the smallest things?

The calm, the subtle pond, the fallen dreams is where I sat

And took a tally of my schemes, what I crept up into

What I been through, let me through a qualm

I'll ascend and build my totem hella tall

If it's heaven, then I'm mendin' every flaw

While I'm livin', keep a distance from the ball

When in doubt, you build a wall and get it gone

Dear God, make me capable and calm

What'll face me won't break me, grant me problems I can solve

He felt there was too much difference between him and them

To allow for a common binding or a common life

Only when threatened with death could that happen

Only in fear and shame, with their backs against the wall, could that happen

I sit with the Drac' and listen to the rain

Watch her paint with her hair in two braids

Lamp light puddles about the place, huddled in corners like mourners at a wake

Shadows thrown in primordial cave, while I watch, the painting looks away

Tip the ashes in my palm, I can't find the 'tray

Watch 'em paint like many, on God

Adorned with talisman and charms, canvas stretched across the wall

It's pourin' out like a heart with the hole

It's like

It's like a T-shirt with only one seam

I'm listenin' to Stevie sing "Happy Birthday"

It's not mines, though

So I played it loud enough, driving slow

Bending corners, hope it might be yours

I watch faces pass the bus stop, coming out of store

Roll the windows down, heat on, humming, children running

I throw up the peace sign to total strangers

Who told you I write with my left hand?

To no one in particular, 'cause it felt more free like that

I am, I be, with my Cs

Laughing at mall cops in vests that say "Heightened security"

I think they know we here