Yo, I'm navigating these crooked lights

Rooks and knights on a checkered plane how I look at life

In the pursuit of them jewels and ice that be lookin' nice

These brothers could get shiest

It's a wrap when they see the worm on a hook and bite

Shit, they got ’em, I can lie though

I'm chasing that same bait with these hooks I write when I jot ’em

Started right from the bottom

Navigating this game feels the same

As dodging these crooks in these hoods at night when I spot ’em

Nah, I ain’t slipping

Same shit, different day, boy, I ain’t tripping

My fears all up in my ears, but I can't listen

I try to stay lifted

’Cause you can't see the bigger picture when the frame’s twisted

You see the vision but your brain flips it

And so the images remain distant, strange, isn’t it?

'Cause all you got is today, and you can't change this shit

Wait, what day is it? I can't tell

Yo, my vision, it goes blank it plays reels

With all the images flowin' backwards, I stay still

Life's a bitch, death is black, but his face pale

Shit, as long as I'm on track, bitch, I can't fail

Yo, my vision, it goes blank it plays reels

With all the images flowin' backwards, I stay still

Life's a bitch, death is black, but his face pale

Shit, as long as I'm on track, bitch, I can't fail

And we to blame ’cause we just feed the flame

We take pills to fill the blankness and ease the pain

I’m like a painter without a canvas who sees the paint

My words are films but I'm the blackness between the frames

Some people change, committing acts that should be a shame

To see your name in lights and attract some degree of fame

It’s mentally insane if that shit could be explained

It’s by design, so you know this rap shit gon’ be the same

So you and me the same, I was a clueless kid who did all kinds of

Foolishness to prove that he was cool as shit

Got my reflection like, “Who is this?”

Tried to jump in the pool and swim

And still I felt excluded in this school of fish

I wanted to resist, I spent most of my youth

Occluded like a lunar eclipse I wanted to exist

But sometimes the truth could just hit the way a Ruger spit

Might’ve lost my footing and slipped, but I ain't lose my grip

And I ain’t use my gifts, I got computer chips as eyes

All my views are zeros and ones, I see the hues in bits

I maneuver the cruelness through this lens

Walking with the truth and a shoe that fits

Shit, I can’t fail

Yo, my vision, it goes blank it plays reels

With all the images flowin' backwards, I stay still

Life's a bitch, death is black, but his face pale

Shit, as long as I'm on track, bitch, I can't fail

Yo, my vision, it goes blank it plays reels

With all the images flowin' backwards, I stay still

Life's a bitch, death is black, but his face pale

Shit, as long as I'm on track, bitch, I can't fail