Rise To The Occasion

Verse 1

Got up tired but I still gotta do what is required

Waiting around is a killer for man with alot of desires

And I wanna meet them and I wanna greet them

Grinning my teeth that minute I see them

Blood sweat tears but here still breathing

One day at a time, a shot in the dark

I make it seem light, on paper it's tight

No jog in the park, got weight on my spine

I carry the world got carried away

I tripped on myself got stranded in space

Another planet I'm on

Everybody in panic what's wrong

Listen I'm sorry try not to worry

I'ma be back in a minute or two

People thinking that I'm pretty obtuse

When there really isn't shit I should prove

They're tryna villify living discreetly

I'm tryna minimise thinking too deeply

But I can't help when my family's struggling

And I got people around that need me

I've been there before

I lived in my thoughts a prisoner of war

Don't wanna discuss, I don't wanna fuss, I'm sitting indoors

Gets to a point where you really can't call it living no more

That isn't the goal I'm flipping the score and so I

So I.. so I

Hook

Rise.. to the occasion

Tie them laces ride them waves and

Get my dues

Cause I know what it's like destitute

And we move and so I

Rise.. to the occasion

Tie them laces ride them waves and

Get my dues

Cause I know what it's like destitute

And we move

Verse 2

Can't do it for fashion

Gotta part ways with stupid attachments

It's all a game

Til you realise it's rooted in badness

Full of illusions pull and seducing

Devil's a liar and you the recruitment

Best be intuitive or you'll be losing it

In this tug of war

Not what it seems on the surface level now it's something more

And I aint Malcom to be in the middle

I know this game will play me like a fiddle

That's why I cannot take heed of a ginnal

Giving me drivel I'm keeping it civil

Until I'm approached and then anything goes

I ain't got time and I ain't got the leisure for jokes

You talk to a man that come like he fell off the globe

Don't get me involved

Ain't selling my soul or selling my own whatever the weather I'll cope

I look at my bro like I'm ready to go like a bomb I be set to explode

Up in their faces

No longer in space and no longer stasis

Step on a regular basis to tell em I made it

Check the occasion and rise

Like a plane take flight

Like the malaysian airlines

How I'm tryna wane out of sight

When I've completed the mission

Most people got two eyes few guys can see with the vision

Make sure I meet the conditions

There's no genie with wishes that's why I speak to existence

And why I keep my family close by if I'm needing assitance so that we

Hook

Rise.. to the occasion

Tie them laces ride them waves and

Get my dues

Cause I know what it's like destitute

And we move and so that we

Rise

Part 2 (Space)

Verse 1

Tryna focus on many things when there's one of me

Knowing well how depression can be a luxury

Don't have the time on my hands to deal with the fuckery

Don't have the time on my hands to give you enough of me

Tryna plant me some seeds I need me money trees

Could be evil aslong as my people are living comfortably

Nobody bussing me but me

Living in the brave new world by Huxley

I love the hustle but for the pounds it's like servitude

What's the purpose if I'm grounded but I still hurt my roots

My family haven't heard from me in months it's the strangest

The people I do all this for I treat 'em like strangers

Silly me sitting here thinking that I'm playing it safest

When the game be the one thats putting me through the paces

I'm tired I could lie in for years

Everyday grind grind grind grind and it's been grinding my gears

Hook

Got to rise and rise up to the occasion

Verse 2

Overthinking my head all tense

Thought I wouldn't get regrets and now that shit never ends

Could've handled that better could've done better then

Still I know it all happened to aid my development

Stakes rise you follow suit then you measure up

Hoping that the next time goes and grants better luck

Many times I convinced myself I don't give a fuck

Masking up what's really there and now see the jig is up

If wasn't for the meddling kid in myself

Something I'd pretend that never existed to help

I would never be the person that I am today

Balancing the dark and light in a viable way

Head upon my pillow but my mind is in space

Something that I'd do when I would try to escape

I notice that were all trying in finding our way

Hoping that before I die that I can be saved