On my way home from the school playground

A few blocks away from where they spray rounds

Payed it no mind, I'm just tryna see my greyhound

Mom's shop down the block, so I know my way around

North Maine and Auburn before it was a roundabout

Love big words, I used to have to sound it out

Acting ass in the class I was clown, no doubt

Used to get grounded, I'm a bit more grounded now

Settled down, but I never put the pencil down

Used to draw doodles, but it's verses from my mental now

When in doubt get the lead out and let it out

Set a route

To the old house with the leather couch

Coordinates in my head

According to what I read

Reporting on what they said

The ordinance should be dread

If you come from where I come from

But I love my hometown like a loved one

One love

Onward

Marching on

Longing for the place, the land where we belong

Onward

Hold our bond

Moving forward til we see the shining dawn

Everybody wanna come when I'm 3-0

Everybody wanna come to the post-show

Everybody wanna comment and nod at all of work I making moves not make Sandwiches no more

Cheering me on the side for the free throw (Yeah)

If I miss then I'm switched to a side hoe (Aww)

All aside as I rise y'all let me know

Every brick that I hit builds a wall of

All the rules that you want me to follow

Picky pills that you want me to swallow

What's the deal tryna build my sorrow?

Think this wall finna lead me to a plateau?

Say Imma have a tough road

Not believing or receiving all the things I do

All I need is family round me to know truth

So home is where I'm bound to

Can I find my way?

Can I find my way?

Can I find my way home to you

(Sorry, can you say that again?)

Can I find my way?

Can I find my way?

Can I find my way home to you (Way home)

The most f****d up thing you can do is make a kid choose

Never picked up from school, alas, the world is cruel

As a rule of thumb, don't get caught up in monkeyshines

Latch key kids abused, and parents working overtime

Hot lunch was a luxury, I never knew Laurent or Chanel

The runway to speedway for ramen and Babybels

Was it cigarettes or conjugal visits, I could never tell

At the bank for deposits or withdrawals, I could never tell

Still stuck on the jigsaw that structured my homelife

I know when I've been left behind, don't tell me it don't feel right

No child should be subject to the violence of poverty and Bud Light

I smile sloppy, thin upper lipped, but it's my birthright

To be wronged, but save a brave face for grammar class

Taught diphthongs, steer clear of beer, and we all laughed

For sure, the poor could pour Coors galore

Row to shore, then right back to the liquor store

The flask passed down for generations and its toxic

Though through decades of solitude, I'm learned helpless

Bearing the urns, burying the hatchet

A pyre still burns, no matter the casket

The hypocrisy that comes with being raised Catholic

Taught fidelity, yet we're siblings to bastards

My dad with a second family I was never privy to

Conversations had as deep as a kiddie pool

My mom trapped in a sarcophagus at the base of a pyramid

Hera Lindsay Bird didn't quite capture it

The suffocation, devouring of house and home

The wolf at the door, and the incessant landlord

Damn straight, I no longer think that pain is meaningful

Everyday I remain alive is nothing short of a miracle

The farthest I've ever been away from home and it's scary

And I've never been so happy, what does that say about me

What does that say about me

I see the spotlights

Through the window

I see your face

Through the sunlight

On the window

On the way home

I see you

But can I be mistaken

To see you, but you're not there

Am I going crazy

To see you right beside me

Cause I know you've gone to a better place

It's been many years

But are you really there, oh

But are you even there

I didn't always ignore his calls, or my mom

But then it became a sort of power in protest

I thought all the things I could do if I wasn't theirs

I thought of all the things I could think of if they weren't on my mind

Soon I wet my lips instead of opening them

Guzzled by Seattle and Detroit and self-diagnosis

I rest easy with a two-month token

A hunger to move

The hardships we bring

I couldn't ask for anything else

I would've done it the same way

Don't need change

I put it all on my back, I need range

We tell it how is, these stories they derange

I'm looking at my little brother now, like new age

Detain, the feelings you rearrange

You could do it better than me, I do think

The hardships we bring (Hardships we bring)

Call your mother up, just give her a ring (Give her a ring)

Tell her "wassup", she'd love to hear you sing

Believe in what you do, it's only one thing

Only one thing

I couldn't-

I couldn't ask for anything

I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't-

No...

"-it's about to change so much in ten years"

"I know, but I mean that's- That's why it's, like, beautiful"