[Produced by fleur., Wxlfstealth & Caleb, Hampton]
[Verse 1: dre, the MONARCH]
I don’t give a rat’s ass, y’all Peter pettigrew
Peter Pans you are not a man, you ain’t ever grew
My pedigree is higher
You a dog while I’m peddling desire
All you do is bite, bark, never catch the fire
I’m a young king flexing on Josiah
With the mind of Dhozar Tsarnaev
Imma blow up
Through a marathon like it’s Boston
Cut deep through brains, reason and soul that’s Carson
I been neuro arson
Failed to find a compartment to let off my stress
Turned to burning up parchments with lead off the press
Realize when you listen even men are depressed
We defend and protect women
Don’t count costs
Go as far as to dance with the wolves
Certified Costner
We offer lives to insert in our offspring
I’m dropping that cynical risk
Rapping till suicide doors or I’m slitting my wrists
[Verse 2: Caleb, Hampton]
Look I stepped in the game with an attitude and a tantrum
A couple of rough lines here and there, they couldn’t stand him
With the monarch on the tandem
My manic mind amped and
By way of introduction, address me as Caleb Hampton
The spirit of a panther, solitude is where I have been
When the kid napped
Had nightmares of my soul being stole for some ransom
Foxtrotting with death
Sunny days left no chance
Suicidal nights, so random
We had some pots to piss in
But cooking’s for the house, boy
A place that always found a way to alloy
My feelings but at least
I never had to live from hand to mouth, boy
Or put a bullet up in nobody’s mouth, boy
Closest I came to Dracos was Malfoys
Ain’t Harry Pottery
But I’ve been dishing all the pot work
When slithering n***as act proud of me
And they pop smirks
Got me asking myself
“What’s going the whole hog worth?”
But listen
You see it’s comes a time when you find yourself all alone
But I made sure I never felt lonely, the heart was home
Tried to spread a message as loud as the shit you smoke
Ended up in ashes but even Stephen was stoned
It’s four footsteps in the sand and I’ve encountered-
Much
I’m going with it 'cause I can’t go around it, uh
I'm going through it 'cause that’s how I go about it
Pain, yeah
That’s how you grow up out it
Learn from it
Insulated from people but heated when they would turn from him
Worked to be as best as I can be and still burned from it
Came from the heavens, had my name written in the stars
After my return, it will reign written in the bars
Staring in a distance, is the grass the same green?
What if love and not isolation, was seen?
What if I made it big with numbers taller than Kareem?
"What ifs" only ever got me closer to my dreams
So I imagine
[Choral Outro]