[Chorus]
It builds me up
It breaks me down
I still get up
And move around
Every day is your first day
Let's paint the town
'Cause when I get up
Can't feel the ground

[Verse 1]
Inner peace type visions
Prisons have walls
The white walls on my Lincoln got miles
Envisioning night falls
The day has gone wild
The sky it falls down
Like the eyes of a tired child ---
So where so do we go then?
And what are we supposed to do?
You cling to your home, kin
Those that'll hold you
In the old days the things that would fold you
Would be attacked
You'd be avenged like some old fool ---
You see we was born free of a burden
Soar the more we learning
Molded by the whole wide world
The cold turning
And we die with broken shoulders
Weight of a life of lived
Some live longer
Because some of us stay kids ---
We all have our own religion
Don't all keep the faith
That's why I have these visions
I need to meditate
De La Soul said we have the highest of stakes
Sometimes coming in is the greatest escape

[Chorus]
It builds me up
It breaks me down
I still get up
And move around
Every day is your first day
Let's paint the town
'Cause when I get up
Can't feel the ground

[Verse 2]
We all wish for small bits of solace
To flitter and fall
Swish
Whisk away all this
So when venomous thoughts slither 'cross your conscience
Just drop the blades and straight shave the nonsense
I've been trained on conquests that'll tame confidence
In my lane, no contest
An insane optimist
In a populace of popular kids with the props and positive gifts
I'm about as odd as it gets
Honest
I'm on this
Neurotic sonic accomplice
Counterculture responsive
Contemplating the ominous
With a prominence that astonishes ponderous honor-less hominids Out for dollars and dominance I'ma spit
But is that as hot as it gets?
On some ecologist shit
It ain't quite a sauna but this climate gotcha bothered a bit
Like breathing with a wet towel over your mouth
Arctic jungle
Savage land
Planet disavowed
Out

[Bridge x2]
The rules they don't apply the same to all of us
The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off
The news don't always sound the same to all of us
These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off

[Verse 3]
We on the same ship got the same sails
Praying that we don't tip, clinging to the rails
Dealing with the same shit, same junk mail
Sometimes you think you're running but you're an old snail ---
But that's just relativity, fast with negativity
Blasted for discretions, all connectivity
Last one to the table don't eat? How we living see
First one up the ladder pulls it up. Now you're killing me ---
Damn! 'Cause I'm a positive dude
99% of the time, I'm in a positive mood
Tell me that I have to walk a mile - the most colossal of shoes
I may be a fool, but I'm on the move ---
It's true what they say about aiming for the moon
Stop following these stars we got work to do
We learn as we go, and just trying to follow rules
But sometimes these rules prevent you from being you

[Chorus x2]
It builds me up
It breaks me down
I still get up
And move around
Every day is your first day
Let's paint the town
'Cause when I get up
Can't feel the ground

[Bridge/Outro x2]
The rules they don't apply the same to all of us
The blues we sing cause we're supposed to shake it off
The news don't always sound the same to all of us
These tools won't always work, I'm going to break it off