Icarus - Bas, Ari Lennox

Since I’ve let go of you and I

Lately I’ve been feeling too alive

Flying too close to the sun, yeah

Flying too close to the sun, yeah

Oh yeah

Trees that grew between us

Tears that drip between us

Years have blew between us just to throw away

Might’ve lost our glory, but I love our story

Yeah I lock the door just to store it away

They say love don’t cost a thing

Yeah right that’s a underbid

They say love don’t cost a thing

Oh yeah right that’s a underbid

That’s a underbid

That’s a underbid

They say love don’t cost a thing

And you know they be lying like Kellyanne Conway

I just get my thoughts off, I just take the top off

When the cauldron bubble, we come from the back block

So they call us trouble, we can never slouch nor stop off

Weekend on the couch with the socks off

Nah, we can make it count, run the clock off

We can count lives on the block lost

Cautionary tape, that we can never block off

All I see is hate, how many memories can a million make?

Opinionated, young nigga seen the whole world with my own two

What they gon' do with this young nigga?

Whole squad workin' on the same page like we one nigga

Like we one

I can’t get jiggy with you clowns

I’m busy I’ve been giving New York City a whole new sound

Who really gon' hold this down?

Who?

Me, funny

I catch niggas gettin' sore when I do me

I still wish them niggas more than they do me

Gotta live up to the blessings of my Umi

Bring myself, couple steps closer to my God above

Never read the «Art of War"but it’s hard to love

Never know when you go rollercoaster

All your highs got a low, rollercoaster

Bring myself, couple steps closer to my God above

Never read the «Art of War"but I could write the Art of Love

Oh yeah

Trees that grew between us

Tears that drip between us

Years have blew between us just throw away

Might’ve lost our glory, but I love our story

Yeah I lock the door just to store it away

The inner me is tellin' me, «I gotta pace it»

The winner in me is tellin', «I got a bottle of Ace»

Cole gave me at the Garden from the case, hold

Stand up, looked 'em in the face

Told 'em I can’t pop it til sell it on my own occassion, bold claim

Told my momma I’d be back and I make it, both came true

Thought I was escapin', just to find myself right back in the Matrix,

both pills blue

I thought I’d be fulfilled

I came from not a dollar in my momma basement

I came from baggin' product in my momma basement

Almost lost some shells tryna bust a couple sales

They went and caught a collar in my momma basement

I’ve been tryna keep her proud since, nigga way back

Got some niggas, keep me grounded, that’s some way back

But I gotta take flights sometimes

These are fightin' times, I’m my only opponent

Somedays I’m betrayin' my holiest moments

I don’t know who could control 'em

I don’t know who could control 'em

I ain’t living for me, I’m the youngest of five

And if I don’t survive, I don’t know who could console 'em

I don’t know who could console 'em

Since I’ve let go of you and I

Lately I’ve been feeling too alive