No Sleep - Grieves, Paris Alexa

Now I was standin' in the middle of it all

Trying to face it

Everything around me has been a break in the chain that I placed faith

And it figures

Cause ever since I was a youngin'

I was running with the devil

In a race to the bottom of my patience

Scattered

Trying to pick the pieces off the ground

Love is nothing but a memory

I fight to keep around now

The beats on

But I’m laggin'

Never catchin' it

The never-ending circle

A definition of irrelevant, a man

With nothing but a pencil in his hand

Tryin' to scribble down it permanent

So he can feed his fam

But you take it all for granted

You walk into my temple open-handed

But you don’t see the terrifying things that I’ve been keeping

Underneath these bloody bandages

You see the world’s much realer on this side of the camera lens

You see depth, but only get six feet

I cheat death and never get no sleep

It doesn’t matter who you are

The sun is gonna set behind you

All alone in these streets

It doesn’t matter where you go

The night is always owed a little bit of inside you

It doesn’t help you’re never getting no sleep

Yo

Now Chords told me I should rap for a bit

Fuck a typical design

I was floating in the ether

Trying to ease a worried mind, feeling

Drunk, weaving, trying to leave it all behind

Life’s mystery is leaving and chasing it through the vines

But I’m

Fine with it

I never need the definition

I’m getting used to them spelling me with a letter missing

Another pistol in my hand

Drawing pictures in the sand

When I’m slowly becoming one of my premonitions, heavy

They call me heavy

I was following the light that was shining

And signifying the ending of it

The flies gather in a bottle even if it’s empty

It’s tempting

To know that even just a simple little thought of it can leave them trembling

on the floor

You looking at me like I haven’t been around it before, man

You want the recipe for just one piece

I cheat death and never get no sleep

It doesn’t matter who you are

The sun is gonna set behind you

All alone in these streets

It doesn’t matter where you go

The night is always owed a little bit of inside you

It doesn’t help you’re never getting no sleep