Rain III - Chad Michael

No one thought that I could do this

Unless you were in those cypher circles back at Johnson Road and I was spittin'

lighter fluid

Light one more blunt

I’m dreamin' lucid

Didn’t even know what I was doin'

Just all these visions that I been livin' lately

Am I still just young and stupid

Three shots and I’m asking what the proof is

On me if you’re asking where the juice is

And if it make it easier you lookin' at him

If you askin' what the truth is, aye

I said fuck it and did all this shit on my own

I been here four years it’ll never be home

It’s too much shady shit that’s tryna block my light

That’s never shade to Shady though you changed my life

Thy never change th radio just hypnotize but when they push us further our

commitment rises, meanwhile

Yeah yeah

The revolution ain’t gon' be on TV it’s streamin now

Screamin' and no one can hear us now

What he fuck are we screamin' bout

Even though we were gifted with the light we needed

We prefer it dark you gotta squint to see it

I was 10 years old when we lost Aaliyah

But if you listen you hear her in SZA ya feel that?

Fueled by energy that never die

Tears fallin' from our eyes

We the lost generation last chance holdin' on for paradise

We gon' kill ourselves tryna poison the monster that we were born inside

I’m convinced that when it rains

It’s just tears fallin' from the sky

I’m convinced they distracting us

Pullin' us further away from each other

With all this red versus blue

Fake verses true

Why it gotta be me versus you

That shit don’t make you

But either you design yourself or this life erase you

Still we gotta build the garden before the angels take us

Maybe our children thank us later

Until then though the work ahead is thankless

Spend my life workin' for some paper

Asphyxiate cuz there’s no more trees to make it

Makes sense right?

In my defense grew up feigned ignorance

But somethin' never quite felt right

High off a perc and a joint the first time that I ever saw 'Zeitgeist'

I still want whips and expensive shit

I know, that ain’t the way to live right

Cinderella poll dancin' the clock almost at midnight

It’s the same old problem

Always chasin' the storm

We all gon' get knocked down

But who got the strength to respond

The resolve to be strong

Find faith in the words of a song

I invite you to float with me on this outer space that I’m on

This orbital Norbit flow

Call it hard headed meteoric

I was tryna Eddie Murphy the stage then realized life ain’t that humorous

When every word you say recorded

Like, every murder gets uploaded

Like, every citizen extorted

And fuck you if you still support this

A mother cries for her dyin' child she can’t afford the treatment

Randomly born into poverty

From birth considered a weakness

That’s not somewhere you never been Chad

That’s down the street

The American dream drippin' in kerosene

What a sight to see

So let’s light this thing

A riot to incite some peace

Insightfully, my mind still gets violent when I recite my peace

I light this piece with Cali reef to lighten up and try to sleep

Still the shadows creep

But slower now, promethazine

I can’t ever let this darkness get the best of me

And 'til I die I swear you’ll always get what’s left of me

Yeah

Three

Yeah

I’m just tryna stay

Like

Right in the eye of the storm

So nothing can touch me

All that shit goin' on around you

It’s gonna try to pull you in

But you gotta try to resist that

I try to give you all the time I can

Not cuz I have to but cuz you deserve it

I see you searchin' tryna find your purpose

I see you workin' hope you know it’s worth it

I, hope you know you worth it

I, know nobody’s perfect

But, to me you perfect

Yeah

But I don’t know how long this rain gon' last

Tryna convince myself that I deserve it

Tryna control the future got me nervous

They see the work but never see you workin'

You never see me workin'

Now they confused with me

Cuz they get a different version

If we ain’t talkin moves

What’s the purpose?

If we ain’t talkin pussy

What’s the purpose?

If we ain’t talkin moves

What’s the purpose

If we don’t talk no more

I hope you heard this

Mmm