[Verse 1: Drama B]
Trials and tribulations, man, we all need it
Egos can set you back, but yet we all feed it
Certain information we lack, 'cause it's all secret, it's all secret
See a lot of people praying for that retribution
And are black in their heart, there's no disputing
Cover it up and calling it art, it teaches students
To my conclusion it's a fact, we get lost in music, I'm here to prove it
I done been around some leeches in my lifetime
And I been around some people that just like crime
Hard to pin it down with the pen and pad lately, uh
Way too much [?] to really have your mind on safety, uh
I'm in a different league, I'm in a different sea
And I done seen some shapes shift with no mystique
Been on them lonely streets, but there's no winning streak
And everybody ignoring the fact you try to speak
My operations for concentration is my method
Detonating them off and separating these energies
And I'm from New York to be specific they [?]
Some projects up on the hill [?], that's enough energy
Witness [?] the story [?] war but no [?]
But was there love in the hood? What kind of [?]
I ain't with the [?] execution
So I don't see a need for any retribution

[Chorus: M.I.M.E]
This is our fight just like your [?]
One shot, when [?]
One chance, one life
This is our fight just like your [?]
One shot, when [?]
One chance, one life
[Verse 2: Futuristic]
I don't need retribution to things
I don't need nobody to gas me to fill my tank
I don't need permission, don't ask for nobody's grace
I'm self-made, won't never ask for nobody's praise, look
Pick my position like [?] until that ring came
A lot of people in it now, I sat and watched the team change
Highs and lows, we came to coach, I did a seat change
Got hit from deep but then must've forgot the way I [?]
In each lane I'm disciplined, I be moving militant
Shots up in penicillin, can't feel 'em, I'm off adrenaline
Thought I needed Ritalin, I was in class riddling these rhymes
And fiddling with them bitches, cut out the middleman
My innocence was stripped at six, the kid ain't knew too much
I think that maybe that's why all this pressure don't feel like enough
I don't gamble on myself, I know it's gold if it get touched
If I get time then I'll be fine, I'll move on mine, ain't in a rush [?]

[Pre-Chorus: Futuristic]
And after all these dreams I'm chasing
I found purpose due my patience
I know I will never get complacent
I'm not waiting on you
I learned from my mistakes, then
I turned my failures into [?]
And I can do it all again, again
[Chorus: M.I.M.E]
This is our fight just like your [?]
One shot, when [?]
One chance, one life
This is our fight just like your [?]
One shot, when [?]
One chance, one life

[Verse 3: M.I.M.E]
Aye, yeah, tell them we want retribution
For my [?], for my lies, for the institutions
Ain't 'bout lives, just dollar signs, wash your brains
Control your minds, go to school, but that's all delusion
The puzzle's solved, life revolves, there ain't no solutions
Never fails, [?] falls, join the revolution
Who's stronger now? Who is important? Who gon' keep on going?
I been tryna figure out where it all went wrong
And looking back at the artifact, show us the retarded fact
We been out here fighting all along
For the [?], for the cuts, for the-- All lived off the sun
This a [?] for the [?]

[Pre-Chorus 2: M.I.M.E]
I been tryna stop the bleeding, but the blood won't clot
Ain't gon' stop until we even, I will waste no drop
I'll be dying before I'm leaving, no, we can't give up
People crying and they grieving, no, we can't just stop
I been tryna stop the bleeding, but the blood won't clot
Ain't gon' stop until we even, I will waste no drop
I'll be dying before I'm leaving, no, we can't give up
People crying and they grieving, no, we can't just stop
[Outro: M.I.M.E]
Drama, ey, writing the only thing that's healing me
[?]
'Member the names that be feeling me
There ain't nobody real as me, so y'all gon' have to deal with me