i can smell success in the air
i can taste it
tip of my tongue and i'm liking the fragrance
i like the trimmings and the women that come with it i
like the speed of life
it's in the rythm
i like to kick a limerick to a drumbeat
writing rhymes in my room while the sun sleeps
it's in my nature
when i love it, i"m obsessive
slow perfection
a sense of the desperate
i need to rise and exceed expectation
the dreams of a nation
the seed of my patience
you watch the birth from the cracks of the surface
at first it's a nervous growth, but it spurts quick
but i don't rap for the magic that can happen i
rap for the tragedy i need to put a rap on
i wanna be there when you're closing your eyes
in the beat being played
frozen in time
and you can use it
to make the bad go away
because music has a way to make things dissipate
some people get controlled by the scripture in the tune
so guess who is pulling all the strings on you
maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away
maybe i will last until the end of the day
maybe i will take what i think is mine
maybe i"m a flame in my own right
maybe i"m a ghost in the music played
maybe i"m just a moment too late
i can see it on the horizon now
stop, stop
maybe it's bye for now
'm like the sand in the hourglass slipping to my fate i
see the grains of life shifting into place
through the problems on the way
through the slimming in the waist
the next chamber of my life
a completely different age
but i also hear them things
the whispers in the wind
and the ghosts of the problems that won't let us begin
i've had loved ones come and go
some stay until the end of it
so who cares about the rest of it?
i don"t give a f**k if you think that this ink
that i write with is something i use to be selfish
i'm doing this for every memory that i have
regardless what they are
either good
either bad
so tear me up
spit me out
i already live in doubt
i've already given out every little single ounce
of energy i have left in me
trust me from this point on you can't touch me
because everything that could have been
has come along
shook my dreams
you don't even figure in with the digits that i riddle in
so here begins the imminent
moment, now i"m changing things
changing the direction in which things seem to be spinning in
so turn around
face the front
chase the future
take a punch
take a little more s**t
scream until you break your lungs
because when i stop making sound
you know
something's wrong
i'm either dead or getting close
maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away
maybe i will last until the end of the day
maybe i will take what i think is mine
maybe i"m a flame in my own right
maybe i"m a ghost in the music played
maybe i"m just a moment too late
i can see it on the horizon now
stop, stop
maybe it's bye for now
i walk along
wonder where the time goes
i can only dream
because in my mind i spy those
things i need
waiting for that moment to come
i grab life by the horns and run
and you can tell me that the sun just won't shine
but i see it all the time
maybe i'm a flame that's to go outbut i don't think so somehow
i don't think so somehow
no i don't think so somehow
i can taste it
tip of my tongue and i'm liking the fragrance
i like the trimmings and the women that come with it i
like the speed of life
it's in the rythm
i like to kick a limerick to a drumbeat
writing rhymes in my room while the sun sleeps
it's in my nature
when i love it, i"m obsessive
slow perfection
a sense of the desperate
i need to rise and exceed expectation
the dreams of a nation
the seed of my patience
you watch the birth from the cracks of the surface
at first it's a nervous growth, but it spurts quick
but i don't rap for the magic that can happen i
rap for the tragedy i need to put a rap on
i wanna be there when you're closing your eyes
in the beat being played
frozen in time
and you can use it
to make the bad go away
because music has a way to make things dissipate
some people get controlled by the scripture in the tune
so guess who is pulling all the strings on you
maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away
maybe i will last until the end of the day
maybe i will take what i think is mine
maybe i"m a flame in my own right
maybe i"m a ghost in the music played
maybe i"m just a moment too late
i can see it on the horizon now
stop, stop
maybe it's bye for now
'm like the sand in the hourglass slipping to my fate i
see the grains of life shifting into place
through the problems on the way
through the slimming in the waist
the next chamber of my life
a completely different age
but i also hear them things
the whispers in the wind
and the ghosts of the problems that won't let us begin
i've had loved ones come and go
some stay until the end of it
so who cares about the rest of it?
i don"t give a f**k if you think that this ink
that i write with is something i use to be selfish
i'm doing this for every memory that i have
regardless what they are
either good
either bad
so tear me up
spit me out
i already live in doubt
i've already given out every little single ounce
of energy i have left in me
trust me from this point on you can't touch me
because everything that could have been
has come along
shook my dreams
you don't even figure in with the digits that i riddle in
so here begins the imminent
moment, now i"m changing things
changing the direction in which things seem to be spinning in
so turn around
face the front
chase the future
take a punch
take a little more s**t
scream until you break your lungs
because when i stop making sound
you know
something's wrong
i'm either dead or getting close
maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away
maybe i will last until the end of the day
maybe i will take what i think is mine
maybe i"m a flame in my own right
maybe i"m a ghost in the music played
maybe i"m just a moment too late
i can see it on the horizon now
stop, stop
maybe it's bye for now
i walk along
wonder where the time goes
i can only dream
because in my mind i spy those
things i need
waiting for that moment to come
i grab life by the horns and run
and you can tell me that the sun just won't shine
but i see it all the time
maybe i'm a flame that's to go outbut i don't think so somehow
i don't think so somehow
no i don't think so somehow