[Verse 1]
And so it starts
I wish you wouldn't have to see me like this, down and out
I'm trynna get back on my feet before summer
My goals is changing
My memories of my loved ones is fading
I'm trynna stay in and out
And really deal with the pressure
How I'm ignoring phone calls from my brother
My present to pressing to help him deal with depression?
Sometimes I forget 'em
And that's crazy 'cause the n***a really the GOAT of this shit
His cousin my brother too, it's really family business
I just need to vent
I don't feel the need to fill you in
Tell me if I ever crossed the line
You always do it and I tell you every time
You phone me a couple times a day
'Cause I tell you: "Call me when I cross your mind"

[Bridge]
Wise up
City saying rise up

[Verse 2]
In my sleep I heard
Fuck n***as loud in the streets, its vivid
But I brush it off
I look worried, that ain't nothing dog
This life with guns, drugs, money
These young G's dying out here is ugly
You ever seen a Basquiat?
You ever seen a body drop?
You ever dream about the block?
These young boys wanna ball like the league
Center of the city trynna block their shot
Came from we all we got
And we still all we got
This is one of the reasons I get writer's block
So it's bare emotions when I pen an open, hold up
[Chours]
Wise up you know the world is changing
Wise up you know you not famous
Doing things you don't like
Saying things you don't mean
To keep people you don't need
Wise up you know the world is changing

[Verse 3]
Silk skin only thing calm my mind
We hit the city, fifth of Henney in me and I come alive
And I avoid the talk, I'm just trynna do me
Let me get into the music
And keep conscious on my whereabouts
It's not where you from it's where you at
You ain't gotta be from Chicago to lose someone you care about
Wise up young n***a
Too many smart n***as dying hanging 'round dumb n***as
My city been hurting seeing legends leave early, yea
But we still here - although they kill here
Hood on fire in the summer and winter
I look to the skies for a better way to live
Lost one and we get it how we live
And I'm scared to put his name in my songs
'Cause his gang probably feel
They knew him better than I did
Am I a coward for that?
Am I wrong to get inspired by that?
Ain't it ill I can't say how I feel
Without the risk of getting shot at for that?
I mean, fuck y'all n***as–*Gunshot*
[Bridge]
I might have crossed the line
I might have crossed the line
I pray for you
You don't have to pray for me
I hope you ever will just wait and see
I really hope you will
I really hope you will
I pray for you
You don't have to pray for me
We drinked and smoked to find a way to sleep
I can't believe we still do it
We still do

[Chorus]
(Wise Up)
Wise up you know the world is changing
Wise up you know you not thinking
Doing things you don't like
Saying things you don't mean
To keep people you don't need
Wise up you know the world is changing

[Verse 4]
"Free Noah Carter"?
I 'been out of jail for a couple
Is you stupid, what you talkin' 'bout?
My mama right next to me
I appreciate the love
But does it look like I'm trying to take a picture now?
I went in prison, found religion
Oh, you Muslim now?
Don't send me pictures of them titties
That's haram
Oh, I'm bugging out
Too pure for dirty money
I ain't hustling, fuck a hundred thou'
I told my mother I wanted to be like my father
But he left her with me
And I ain't trying to do that to Alba
I lost her more than once
Wrote "Do You?" and got her back before she heard it
Always knew she was a real one
I just had to word it
I kept my eyes on you, not thinking to blink
I noticed something was wrong before I finished my drink
What if I left you tomorrow?
What would the internet think?
My mind has been somewhere else
Even the days that we link
I write for the future just in case we ain't living in sync
You used to say I got a way with words
All my actions is what made it worse
But I still got away with words
Them' long nights conflict with them' good days
And the drug life complicates the love life
Thug life have me living life, fuck life
I'm just trynna be the best I can be
For the people that I love
For the city and me
For this world of a God
B.O.C. forever and that's word to the squad
So go and tell your best friends, I'm the one
And if you ever meet my father, tell him what I've become
I got up off the couch and started holding my weight
Still leave it to the law to determine my faith
I really put my heart in this
So please no wack reviews on the tape, yea dunno
[Silent Interlude]

[Outro]
Got no time to loverys, and I swear
I will die for lots of reasons, and I swear
Only time for memories, and I, I, I, I swear
I swe-e-e-ar
So stop waiting, with our so-o-oul
Too la-a-ate