Freestyle on a Heartbeat

My body's here and my mind is present

The beating of my heart is loud as it is incessant

I want to address it, but I still got a long way to go

I'm so young, what the hell do I know?

I know we grow with the mentality

That our reality is governed by money

And somehow that's running our whole mortality

We're tightly bind to refuse to get behind

And we act like we don't mind it

But the fact is we're too blind to see it

We keep waiting for the stars to align

For the perfect time to try the perfect beat and rhyme

When deep inside, we strive to live life

And yet the money's got us too scared to try

Why? See, I grew up with my head in the clouds

And no force on the planet that could bring that down

So when a storm tore the sky and swore that I should stop it

I said "Hell, nah, man, I'ma top it"

And it was the music that got me through

And I'm cruisin' and I don't care 'bout the bruises I got

Or how much I'm losing

The point of this is, I'm choosing to be here now

I'm a fuse that's attached to a bomb that could go off at any moment

Ka-plow!

I'm a fluid, I find a crevice, go through it

Every obstacle, I say, "Screw it"

And the odds can go kiss my gluteus maximus

Who is gonna have the courage to do this

If we can believe it was stupid?

In reality, we're just human

Here's a piece of me, I can prove it

I could stop right now

Go back to my hometown

Relax and slow down

I see people glarin' and starin' throughout the mast crowd

And I have the urge to give up and to sit my ass down

But I wanna survive 'til the last round

Make it past now, and pass down

The idea that even the class clown

Might become the world's best comedian

And we should all strive to be the outlet and not just the median

And everybody's lookin' for the secret ingredient

Well, there is none, it's hard, and it's tough, and it's tedious

But that's what I stand for

If you have a dream, believe in it

And don't become too greedy for the green 'cause it's convenient

I'm preaching dreams, shootin' darts in the dark

'Cause the hardest part is getting the artist in you

To start to follow your heart

And now that I'm on a roll, my gut says, "Get off the stage, man, go"

But I resist, and I refuse, and I persist and I pursue

And I'm scouring my brain for any words that I can use

'Cause life is like a freestyle, man you know it's true

You figure it out as you go and slowly get into the groove

You can do something beautiful and meaningful too

You could open up your heart and let the feelings come through

Write a freakin' musical if you got somethin' to prove

But the most important thing is that you keep doing you

My body's here, and my mind is present

I've got a long way to go, but I've learned one lesson

Every heart holds a melody, it'll tell you where to steer

But only if you listen

So what do you hear?