I Do This - Abstract, Roze

I do this for my father

Who’ve I’ve only seen

From time to time in my dreams

I do this for, you

I do this for my mother

Who’s finally clean

And no longer a feen

I do this for, you

I do this for my sister

My wife and my kids

Cause they part of the team

I do this for

All the naysayers and haters

Who made me one of the greatest

I know it kills you inside

That’s why I do this for you

I do this for the kids who sit a bit outside the mix

Who maybe cope through humor, just to fit in for a bit

Who never let the world know when depressions setting in

To all of those who know you that impression don’t exist

And it ain’t counterfeit, it’s just a way to counter it

I’m living things I dreamed about, I still encounter it

It ain’t something that a cigarette or alcohol can fix

But all because of it I flipped it quick, went on to write some hits

This a success off another breath

This the first step in searching to be nothing less

Than be the best in what you do, to prove there’s strength in being you

Learned so much in chasing dreams that I never would in school

Depends on where your passion lie, just know passion never lie

Life presents distractions, but your actions have to fortify

The things that you believe in have to scream it like a battlecry

And leave the ones who didn’t lookin' stupid while they’re asking why

Couldn’t lie, I really do this for the ones I love

Those who treat the music as a vice and lyrics like a drug

Those who need advice on how to lift their spirit high enough

To break out of the box they make of lives they know aren’t good enough

Just because it’s how it is don’t mean it’s how it has to be

This is what the uninspired testifiers fail to see

Jealousy results from being that which others failed to be

And if it means you’re not with me that honestly sounds fair to me

I do this for my father

Who’ve I’ve only seen

From time to time in my dreams

I do this for, you

I do this for my mother

Who’s finally clean

And no longer a feen

I do this for, you

I do this for my sister

My wife and my kids

Cause they part of the team

I do this for

All the naysayers and haters

Who made me one of the greatest

I know it kills you inside

That’s why I do this for you

Do this for my mother, she’ll be working for the summer

Do this for my father cause these days I often wonder

What my life would have been like if I was not adopted

To grow up in a home where I was treated like a problem

I don’t know, it’s just a guess, your guess probably good as mine

Lucky that I grew up in a home that wanted me to shine

Lucky that I grew up round some mountain we were taught to climb

Without that inspiration I don’t think that this would be my life

Do this for my friends who’ve scattered all cross the country now

I’m out in Sweden walking back through life so I can write it down

Make a living off the sound, so crazy to say out loud

I’m the biggest thing since Travis Rice to come up out the town

Sorry gotta stunt a little, used to have my dreams belittled

But it’s all a part of it, I know people’s minds are fickle

Lines between reality and dreams I blur like faded nights

Come up been so good for me, I wish that I could make it twice

I do this for my father

Who’ve I’ve only seen

From time to time in my dreams

I do this for, you

I do this for my mother

Who’s finally clean

And no longer a feen

I do this for, you

I do this for my sister

My wife and my kids

Cause they part of the team

I do this for

All the naysayers and haters

Who made me one of the greatest

I know it kills you inside

That’s why I do this for you