Chance the Rapper
The Breath (Falling Out)
Part I
[Intro]
Wake up
You're here
[Verse]
I woke up today
And said "Hello" to sadness 'fore I killed it
With a breath beat, I went to God
And told him that I'm willing
Felt a void inside my heart
So as a beat, I tried to fill it
Till I realized that I needed you
And shut my eyes to breathe
And take in everything around me
Part II
[Intro]
Yeah
Realness
[Verse]
I see myself
A state of solid angles and an outlook
I see myself
A past with no stains in a picture frame
A lucid dream that I control
That becomes real an early morning with the blinds open
Night thoughts pass on
Deep lines will be rapped on
What I never classified
Classified as real in my younger eyes
Will present itself to me
When I call upon to Mr. Wise
The nick of time
Bittersweet white sheets
Turn to poetry with time
Ink on the brink
On the border of your life
As well as blue-lined trees
I love you but you hate me
Oh well
Time has told
And time will tell
I felt the grip of sleep tell me that it's okay
Pulled me to the bed
And laid me down to settle my head
Time on the clock is time limit in itself
You were sick in the mind
Man, I hope that you get well
Smoke clouds in your eyes, friend
Provided by releases
Giving temporary medicine
I hope to lead you on, friend
Hope you never see the point of that blade again
Hope your heart stocks love again
Friend, I hope you live
The sun will go down
Leaving stars to lift you up until the rise again
Hug and kiss "goodbye" again
But reflect on those nights
Know you had at least one good one
Yeah, there's an atmosphere here
A world unexplored here
An association with the time period
You first found love within
Cherish that
Clarity is that
Plus the same future that I see my rhymes at
But for you
You killed me with that one word
Feel me breaking bonds by the bonfire
With tapping of my thumbs on the small screen
Words killed a good thing
Flurries by the heart strings
I'm sorry for the mistake
Hate to know what you say
So take me to the mist, babe
Blind me 'fore you cut my strings
Leave me all alone
Taste dust sticking to my face
Oceans won't cut it
So I'll kiss 'em by a cool lake
Phrases are a display
Of what's inside my dream state
The night is young, but I am grown
Far beyond the tears
So they fade (so they fade, so they fade)
So they dry (so they dry, so they dry)
On my face (on my face, on my-)
Aye, built a castle and you knocked it down
So Imma build it up again
But this time with a gate named "God"
Please allow me to elaborate
You left me on a rainy day
But rainy doesn't stop the spirit rising from the grave
It's time to believe the impossible
Ride the beats I said I wouldn't
As far as I know, I lost a fool
And gold was beside the pool
Making videos before he knew that he would meet you
And I've got something to say
You missed me by a millimeter, baby
I can never save you
Genius in the making
God, I hope I'm never famous
I just wanna carry this upon my back
And know that you're the one that made it
Made it for me
I just wanna know
I just wanna know that you're the one that made it for me
You get it?
Yeah
Do you get it, do you get it?
Life is not the same
So I pray to God I get it
Where would I be if I didn't have you
I owe my life to you and I'd give it up too
Just to show you
My future and my rap don't matter if I got you
Yeah, if I got you
If I got you
Yeah, if I got you
Part III
[Intro]
All these visions and prayers will be answered
[Verse]
Ninth grade told me that I wasn't doing well
Then the tenth grade said I had to show myself
Tossing and turning in my sleep
Never thought my thoughts could get so deep
Fell in love with the sounds
Had my world turned around
I can't stick to one sound
Go for the unpredictable
The thing I had my vision for
Was not something that's thinkable
To someone who believes that life's unfixable
I put my work into side projects
But had breakups on the side
Hard to manage both at once
So I changed up lanes
So my life would go by
Living for the right
Whether life or time went by
In the blink of an eye
I know it's all confusing
And I don't know how to do this
But to do things different
Cause the past does repeat
And the past doesn't love me
And I'll miss you
I'll miss everything you did, but it's-
It's time to walk away
I've had my foot on the brakes
Sitting in the same place
I was drifting into a broken state
Satan's place, through the enemy's gates
I need to shift my focus
I cried when I wrote this
My sound changed right when my life did
I may be a rapper, but I'm not for today
I'm an artist and my music should reflect how I live
On the day by day
I'll find the one one day
So no more crying
Be okay with tonight and tomorrow
Even if it doesn't feel right
Gotta let it be free
So my soul feels right
So my soul feels right
I want my soul to feel right
So my soul feels right
[Snippet: Chance The Rapper]
I felt like I was kind of losing my God a little bit
You know?
That separation
That was the time that I started making a lot of this music
Understand and know that my next project
Was going to be founded in God
And founded in my faith
[Snippet: Marcus Rogers]
People that I have met
You know?
They are the most nice, loving, joy-filled people
But the wrong person will drain you spiritually
The wrong person will wound your soul
The wrong person will just have you acting some type of way
That you never even wanted to act like
It's like going through the airport, man
Before you take off
You know, if you have too much baggage
And you got the wrong baggage
You gonna have to check some of that baggage
You gonna have to check some of your relationships
Some of your friends, you gotta let 'em go
Some of your relationships aren't healthy
[Outro]
So let it be free