Have you ever had a single moments thoughts about my responsibilities?

Have you ever thought a single solitary moment about my responsibilities?

They can't believe that I made it a dub plus in these shoes and I'm still walkin'

Took a couple hits in the jaw and I kept talkin'

The line cook, went from writin' rhymes in the walk in

To six figure salaries, flying across the Baltic

That's pen on the paper, that's my blood on wax

Cats itchin' to catch vapors, make the ozone crack

My panic and faith molded, what came as a flamethrower

A fire that slowly spread across the map

Shit I was highly medicated, tryna find a balance in my brain

I never really thought that I was gonna make it

Even when I got a couple dollars in my pocket

There was always someone there to come around and try to take it

Testin' my patience

I don't even think my city knows that I'm alive

They probably think that I caved in back in my basement

Back to the claps and the bass hits

Back to the cracks in the pavement

It's all work and no play

Dull boy, cold days

No chance and no shame

Shit, you ain't gettin' outta here anyway

All work and no play

Dull boy, cold days outside

It's a tough old world

Put the axe through the door

And I keep on shinin'

Yeah, I keep on shinin'

'Til it's redrum I'ma keep on shinin'

I'ma keep on shinin'

Put an axe through the door

Man, I keep on shinin'

I started out as a scruffy runt of a cub that my bosses could never supervise

Sellin' eighths on lunch break at Leslie's Pool Supplies

With a hunger to rebel and revolutionize

And see the world through a ruler's eyes while they scrutinize

I was soon to rise and developin' everyday

As I crawled up out the graves that I dug myself on the way

It was all work but shit, I made a hell of a play

I'm a bad motherfucker, don't know what else I could say

Kept the mind sharp, makin' shit move like Eleven

Learned through disputes, use truth as a weapon

Shit, I'm ruthless, when Webby let loose with the venom

I'ma turn this booth into Room 237

What grew to obsession had started as just a reverie

For all these mental problems, the music became the remedy

Drum patterns and melodies

Stimulatin' my sensories

But still, I had this voice in the back of my head tellin' me

That it's no play and all work

'Cause your enemies will come without a call first

Turn the heat up on those fuckers 'til it thaws dirt

So when you bury 'em, you'll be workin' with soft Earth

Yeah, it's all work and it's no play

Keeps a dull boy warm through the cold days

You better bundle up, you'll feel the draft

When I put the damn axe through the door

And I keep on shinin'

Yeah, I keep on shinin'

'Til it's redrum I'ma keep on shinin'

I'ma keep on shinin'

Put an axe through the door

Man, I keep on shinin'