​j. sula
​reflections
[Intro: Camille Rowe]
Today I feel very Simone de Beauvoir

[Verse 1: YOSHUA]
Keep on pushing me closer to the edge, I just might jump it
Base your viewpoint of my person on a couple assumptions
I might skydive out of a jet, forget to pull my chute up
I'm so lightheaded, hit the pavement, started leaking blue blood
Won’t be the centerpiece on your mantle
For you to show off your guests to
Too busy trying to keep afloat
To take a peek at what all the rest do
New year, me in my best mood
New year, new life be eventful
New year, focused on the sensual
New year, build up on my mental
I worked for this, I can't lose now
I took some hits and they bruised now
I plead the fifth on the truth
It's time to plot my next move
Clapping my hands, I’m tryna turn on the lights
Did a lot of wrong, I'm tryna make it all right
In the daytime, I'm just going through the motions
Hoping that a sign will come, before I know it, day turn to night
City hopping, searching for the answers to my questions that
Just haven't been answered yet
I be hella moody with my Cancer head
Shoulda lost a lot of money, all the times I ran a bet
[Verse 2: ROSEOUL 7K]
Smiling in front of a barrel, I quote
The past the only thing that keeps you afloat
Me, my angels and demons in the same boat
Torn between survival and murder, by the water which we go
I was taught that the sky was the limit
Even when I was sad, young and timid
Silence is my disguise for me to win life's scrimmage
Translation: I learned to not fight when I'm mad
Contending for the faith I hold dear from my past
Legends never last the way they was intended
Fairytales rewritten by monsters for the sake of children
Man, I went to war last night
With a Bible and a knife and still came out without a scratch
Lock and key my life behind a safe
And make sure that you break the hatch
Building me a wall so my heart never loses its race
When I fall into my grave, shoot my haters in the face
Give my momma some roses, 'cause in spirit I'ma keep ’em safe
What’s done is done and it won't be the same
My past taught me success, patience and pain
For that I thank those who are not here now
’Cause you know that you opened up my lane

[Chorus: ROSESOUL 7K]
Ain't no coming back
You can't hold me back
Ain't no coming back
Ain’t no coming back
[Verse 3: YOSHUA]
The past is the past, yeah yeah
I drop it off, I don't look back
I let it all go, yeah yeah
Sunk it in the ocean, it floats
But if it's all the same, I'm better off now without it
I went through way too much this year to ever be doubted
Memory lane is closed, so I am never around it
I lost my way a while ago, I hope that I've found it
Please don't hit my line, I'm tryna climb my own Everest
And I ain't brought my gear, but I don't wanna stay settled
And plus there probably isn't any service at the summit
My plummet to ground zero hurts, I used to be a hunnid
But the only way from here is up, so I'm climbing
Gotta keep on driving, homie, upping that mileage
Peeking through kaleidoscopes in hopes I find the color
Missing from my palette, tryna paint the canvas
See the vision finished, ooh
Uh, tryna paint the canvas, see the vision finished, yeah
You get a little clout and now you walking different
I got a new lens on life so I see
Past all of the people that's talking pretty
I know it's all a façade, I know they all against me
Life is just a mirage, but please, try and tempt me

[Chorus: ROSESOUL 7K]
Ain't no coming back
You can't hold me back
Ain't no coming back
Ain't no coming
Ain't no coming back
You can't hold me back
Ain't no coming back
Ain't no coming back
[Verse 4: YOSHUA]
Well by now, I've really crossed the point of no return
I'm fine with it, I did a lot and took my time with it
And what I do from here on out is only God's business
And as God's witness, I accept if I get charged with it
Too busy looking in the rearview, I hit the curb
Fronting hard but bumping Sicko Mode up in the 'burbs
I'm glowing up, gotta remember where I was at first
It's all in the books, so I won't say another word
I'ma keep going 'til the fat lady sing her last note
Then I quote, show is over, gotta stay afloat
Drove two hundred miles on empty, so I screwed the engine
And now it's breaking down on me so I gotta refill it
I haven't talked to my Creator since before the winter
Tryna outrun my sin, I never was a sprinter
I got a gift too wonderful for words, I don't deserve it
But I didn't buy it, I didn't earn it from a sermon
His love was free and me, I think about the past too often
All my ghosts that haunt me nightly, I'm so damn exhausted
I spin myself around the bend until I'm freaking carsick
I wanna move across the world and find my own apartment
Sometimes I wanna change the world for good and be important
Sometimes I wish that I had let it go, and not kept scoring
And I wanna go home to God 'cause right now I'm the farthest
There's no time better than present, I guess I'll get started