Sojourner
[00:00.72] Aba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:04.92] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:08.17] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:11.20] Mhmm, mhmm, mhmm
[00:23.19] Oh, I swam for miles, only to realize the current
[00:31.41] Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired, floatin' now
[00:34.95] Oh, from here on out, I've got to realize the power
[00:43.16] Of learnin' to let go, and just let God
[00:46.20] Enjoy the ride
[00:47.68] Born into pain, alcoholic veins
[00:49.94] Over-analytical brain a product of the shame
[00:52.91] And runnin' from a past, that's checkered like the game
[00:55.93] Somewhere 'long the way somebody snatched my peace and main
[00:58.92] Maybe that's the reason I spent decades seekin' fame
[01:01.69] And fortune hopin' that a proper portion would contain
[01:04.67] The sadness in my eyes, remember when I came
[01:07.68] In this music business, all their questions was insane
[01:10.65] "Why you never smile in your pictures?" I refrain
[01:13.69] From givin' you the answer 'cause that answer wasn't plain
[01:16.42] Enough for me to see 'cause at the time I knew my name
[01:19.44] But didn't know myself, and so I dealt with shit the same
[01:22.44] As a fugitive, but running from the truth and shit
[01:25.18] I shoot the shit with niggas, but they never loop the shit that's hidden deep
[01:28.66] Within the crevices like ever since I was a child
[01:31.17] Seen my mama with the pistol pointed at her dome and how
[01:34.16] In the fuck do you expect for me to ever be the best lil' me
[01:37.93] That I can be, when trauma's deep inside of me
[01:39.67] Like I.V. fluid pumpin' through the blood of wifey, while she's givin' birth
[01:42.91] To my child, I know my thoughts are runnin' wild
[01:45.17] Bear with my style, this just a trial run
[01:47.18] Just heard these kids don't know 'bout Malcolm
[01:48.92] And I'm sort of heartbroken 'cause the elders lost hope in our youth
[01:51.67] And here I sit dead in the middle not a little boy no more
[01:55.42] But not quite old yet, wakin' up in cold sweats
[01:58.17] Scared that I'm too disconnected from the kids' perspective
[02:00.92] The world ain't got no patience for some shit that's introspective
[02:03.93] So where in the fuck that leave me? Irrelevant, I guess
[02:06.67] Went from Heaven-sent to hella bent, intelligent but stressed, damn
[02:09.92] Oh, I swam for miles, only to realize the current
[02:17.91] Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired, floatin' now
[02:24.39] Oh, from here on out, I've got to realize the power
[02:29.67] Of learnin' to let go, and just let God
[02:32.68] Enjoy the ride (One more time)
[02:34.66] Swim good, enjoy the ride (Yeah)
[02:36.41] Every day I rise, thank God that I am alive (Yeah)
[02:40.67] Yeah, swim good, enjoy the ride (Yeah)
[02:42.41] Every day I rise, thank God that I am alive (Uh)
[02:46.17] Permanent vacation for forever
[02:48.44] Some things you gotta leave behind, some people just like weather
[02:51.16] And seasons, for that reason, I know I'll always have a leg up
[02:54.16] Weatherman forecast me dead last, think I'm just another nigga
[02:57.16] Maybe, I'll be the next Black Beatle like Swae Lee
[03:00.15] Yeah, I know my worth, these colonizers got to pay me
[03:03.16] Yeah, I had to go first 'cause the rest would never last
[03:06.18] I had to show the positives for those that couldn't add
[03:09.14] Lookin' at the ads, they only love us if our ass
[03:11.92] Out and so I'm out, I got an Audi and it's bad
[03:15.16] I said that line 'cause niggas only respect you if you brag
[03:17.92] It don't work with me the same, don't give a fuck 'bout what you have
[03:20.66] Everybody claimin' boss, none of you niggas got no staff
[03:23.89] It don't measure up the same, what's a quarter to a half?
[03:26.64] Of a whole lot of problems, nigga, who taught you to add?
[03:29.66] Where I'm from, we don't recognize that it's good math
[03:32.41] If you don't teach the ones that's comin' up to multiply their cash
[03:35.90] Think for themselves, think beyond sales
[03:38.66] Everything with worth don't come with some whistles and some bells
[03:41.41] The ones that gotta leave behind, some ones you gotta bail
[03:44.65] Meek Mill, I'm workin' hard, ain't too far from a meek mil'
[03:47.40] To keep it real, the realest niggas I know always kept it real
[03:50.41] And I'ma tell you, Black-on-Black murder been whack
[03:53.39] 9th, turn me up so they can hear me in the back
[03:57.17] Yeah, and that's pretty hard for me
[03:59.41] But you see hopeful niggas and where they all ought to be
[04:02.13] Scared to grow wings, Birdman with a bunch of Carter beef
[04:05.15] That's old news, nigga, you talkin' to modern me
[04:08.16] Smarter, we had better conversations sittin' with barbers
[04:11.15] Puttin' hearts and heads in niggas who don't think ahead, who taught you?
[04:14.65] School y'all, school y'all, welcome to the schoolyard
[04:17.14] Teach you how to make moves without needin' a UHAUL
[04:20.39] I was on you all when I was growin' up
[04:22.65] Now it's you all that's all on these nuts
[04:25.14] I'm ballin', havin' a ball and I got the balls to say it
[04:28.14] Who needs inspiration where you know when you can play it?
[04:31.37] Carolina to the heart, nobody here gon' play us
[04:34.14] The day that we expire, Carolina's where they'll lay us
[04:37.40] I woke up feelin' like Aaliyah, yeah, a million and one bucks
[04:40.64] Told these niggas I don't give a single million and one fuck, Rap
[04:46.40] Oh, I swam for miles, only to realize the current
[04:52.15] Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired, floatin' now
[04:58.15] Oh, from here on out, I've got to realize the power
[05:03.65] Of learnin' to let go, and just let God
[05:06.66] Enjoy the ride
