[Verse 1]
I only asked to get ahead of me
So I can see the man in the cemetery
And I was in love with the prophecy
Just another slave to hypocrisy
People distracted by the world outside
And fail to see the world when they close their eyes
I'm feeling the unbalance, hatred and malice between us
Why we at war, we should be more like Venus

[Chorus]
I was born by the river, raised by the Queen
Faced with reality, mind willing to dream
Contemplating a life of freedom
I was forced to turn my back on the door that saw everyone leaving
Rock bottom is a strong foundation
Built an empire on it with some words in the basement
We write the truth and then they write us off
Just a couple lines that Malcolm was willing to cross

[Verse 2]
I came back home with a rose and some torn up clothes
Laid it next to a desperate note but it remained composed
I said Lord, for I see but I cannot sail, how does one win when he's ready to fail?
I know you know my heart, my spirit, my soul
I've been overwhelmed by fear since I was 9 years old
She came in my life so unexpected
She felt love before I had it resurrected
If you are, you are, who you say you are
You are out of this world, you are Jupiter
Now, that would explain this new atmosphere
We didn't plan it to be hard and to be so far
But we gone, baby we gone
So you take it off when I turn it on
Walk in my mind, into the unknown
I'll walk in yours, and we can get lost
Yeah, but tell me when you're down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down
Who’s bringing me up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
And I was born by the river, raised by the Queen
Faced with reality, mind willing to dream
Contemplating a life of freedom
I was forced to turn my back on the door that saw everyone leaving
Rock bottom is a strong foundation
Built an empire on it with some words in the basement
We write the truth and then they write us off
Just a couple lines that Malcolm was willing to cross

[Interlude]
You said you had a tunnel for a past
And described when you saw the end glisten like a star
Where I'm from so far, I'm an alien
We see different worlds in our craniums
See these are vivid words, vivid dreams, lonely nights
You're gonna spend all your time making money until you spend all your money trying to make up for lost time

[Verse 3]
Life ain't easy
Sunrise by the stream
Tell life to meet me
Stuck in a place, only I can free me
Deep in the east in the belly of the beast
I know you know that this ain't easy
But I get my bars for free
Deep in the valley where my shadow don't sleep
We get to stall in what brothers are balling
'Cause we are, more life for the ready
More hard Henny gets buried with the penny
I die, you die, they die heavy
You live, I live
Not so many, ahh
Welcome to the matrix
Parallel world where we're living
It took space to see the world that we living
And it took time, it took pain, it took vision
And I've never been here before
She came down like a meteor
Yes, I'm young and I'm insecure
I've seen too many leave like a sycamore
And she's cool, like ice sometimes
But she can save you from your hardest times
Like old gods, and I don't really fuck with the others
My back gets up with the others
And I'm analysing the timing
I'm seeing this widen
My pen gets to pain like an ambulance siren
I've prayed and not prayed and I prayed again
I've been deep where faith is the only way
I depict my own flaws and slam my own doors
The shit that I've seen would leave you lock-jawed
I'm a young fighter, deep thinker, raw writer
Walk through the dark till the sun finds your shadow

[Break]
The more they hate me, the more they help me
The more they love me, the more they hurt me
The dynamic of a lonely journey
I failed to say a word but I know that you heard me
Your absence is present, I feel it
Praying on the day I count my blessings and mean it
Close my eyes and see the devil tryna be Jesus
In a world where believers are trying to be leaders
(Heh heh, but he's completely lost!)

[Verse 4]
I'm just my darkest fear and my greatest achievement
Thousands of snakes and I'm back with EDEN
Faith is staying strong without notorious reason
They say God is love and that love is freedom
But love took my heart and it left me bleeding
Love had me on my knees begging and pleading
Love showed me the valley of the shadow of death
Love showed me life is a beautiful test
A man told me people live hell on Earth
That's why I had to put down a hell of a verse
They say life's a bitch but she's beautiful
Motherfuckers out here are trying to snatch her purse
And she said "Who you gonna be?"
Every breath costs but the karma comes free
She can see I'm not afraid to show all my fears
And when I'm gone I hope she remembers the words I whispered in her ear
I said, she said "Who you gonna be?"
Every breath costs but the karma comes free
She can see I'm not afraid to show all my fears
And when I'm gone I hope she remembers the words I whispered in her ear
I said, yeah, I've got a tunnel for a past
And described when I saw the end glisten like a star
Where I'm from so far, I'm an alien
We see different worlds in our craniums

[Interlude]
And now a great thing in the street seems any human nod
Where a move in strange democracy the million masks of God
The million masks of the joker, because the joker is the player
The trick player, who plays ultimately the great trick on himself
So really, there can be no resentment about this, nobody to blame, nobody to turn around in the end and say:
"You, you bastard! You did this to me!"
Because it's always you, who are ultimately responsible

[Verse 5]
When life draws for the side table
I feel to pause, watch it flash before your maple eyes
Being fed lies through the cage we've been held inside
Heaven is the answer to the question that we're living in
And there's an opposite to everything
Yang and Yin compelled by the sedative we're letting in
Time counting down till there's no tomorrows left for me
One way trip to heaven I'd be sitting in the window seat
Long talks with the man in the mirror
But he don't move when I move, we used to be together
I see clouds when I close my eyes
But it ain't rained in years; it might rain tonight
I might see everything clear, tear after tear
I'm gonna climb my fears, you can't tell me about piers
Can't trust em 'til the end, 'cause the end ain't your friend
When you run out of love 'cause all that love got spent
I've been spending these days on my own
Being thrown like a stone into the sea of the unknown
Escaped a long line of clones in a queue for purpose
People that don't know themselves make me nervous
They call this home, I call it the unknown
Trapped between letting go and the need for control
Still looking for the spaceship that we crashed and burned
For we were looking for heaven when we fell on Earth
You said that I said that I'm yours
I told you that I made myself at home in your flaws
They've been learning from the greats while I learnt from their mistakes that found the devil's gates
Amen