[Chorus: McKinley Dixon]
Tread softly, please tread so softly
These demons haunt me, Mama keep them off me
She says, "Everything gon' be okay"
Whispers to me, "I know that it hurts
Sometimes cuts could use more dirt"
The songs they sing in the jump ropes
They have heart
Tread softly, please tread so softly
These demons haunt me, Mama keep them off me
She says, "Everything gon' be okay"
Whispers to me, "I know that it hurts
Sometimеs cuts could use more dirt"
The songs thеy sing in the jump ropes
They have heart, have heart

[Verse 1: Alfred.]
The song that I bear
And I bear it because my mama
The one who taught it
And still for her, I work for honor
I walked along the water
Revealed the holes in my skin
Just so these motherfuckers know who I am
And I’m a motherfucking human, rapping lucid on the harp
I'm prolly down to die for my art
I definitely don’t know what I’m doing
And I’m moving through the bullshit by my prayers and angels
Close to familiar
But at best I’m a stranger
But a seat at the table
Eat without saying grace
That’s prolly why I’m not graceful
And end up falling on face
Trippin', and n***as trippin’
N***as wish upon a n***a
Live vicariously even if it kill em
N***a tread soft, my heart so light
Will it really be okay when it’s dark at night?
We don’t know the know
And really grow so much
Dreaming bout being already there
When you so close to touch, yo, n***a, tread soft
N***a tread soft
N***a tread, tread soft
N***a tread soft
[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2: McKinley Dixon]
I just wanna live forever
I just wanna live forever
Thought the bullet would severe attachments
It made him clever
I just wanna live forever
So what do we do?
Hanging my lifeless body out the top of the coop
Humming:
"I just wanna live forever
And share all the wealth
How a n***a gon' do that
If he meet God 'fore himself?"
I don’t know
Get to where the sky’s always clear
What I fear is what my intentions get me
Hm
Wit these wings, you can see forever from up here
A n***a never had no fear, but that's the tale of Icarus
Difference is, once father couldn't maneuver labyrinths
Show his son that there really might be magic in dreaming
Dreaming of leaving
Dreaming of flight
Dreaming of building wings
Jumping out ya window at night
Dreaming of looking out
Seeing such a freeing sight
Do this all for paradise, my n***a
Shit happened so suddenly
It caught me off guard sadly
I know I’m crying, baby
Please don’t look at me badly
Trynna process the best that I can
Still be your Peter Pan
Fly you to different lands
Still trynna be a man
But can I break down for a second?
Mama taught me bad news to be expected
And poppa taught me if it fall on you, go on and deflect it
Lil n***a
I’m just tryna breathe, breathe, breathe
Cling to thoughts with every dry heave
Think what I'll tell God if we meet
Prolly that I shouldn’t hit the blunt that hard
Tell my lil n***a breathe, breathe breathe
Holdin' his chest, he bleeds, bleeds, bleeds
Wish I could tell his family that he’s
Prolly gon' be absent from dinner tonight
Fuck