Before the Summer Broke - Jean Grae

I spent about a half’a month

Thinking about the universal laws of karma, bullshit

And all that everybody really wants

To contrast to what they need will make you fuckin' want to fuckin' pull clips

From everything you’ve ever seen

Wind it back at half-speed

Just to find the part where niggas lied to you

So check my scene if it applies to you

If not, fuck it;

turn it off, bye to you

But anyway, I’m back again

Hope you don’t miss me, Black FM

Feet firmly planted in the clouds as always

A sack of dreams deferred, I’ll leave em in the hallway

Don’t worry, you won’t have to see em

Coincidence you want the bars, I want my freedom

I guess this is the necessary lead-in

Before the scars, loss, boys, feelings oh gosh

Know when Jeanie be going in on her demons, how far

And not even revealing all the cards

I deal, I dealt with blows beyond the belt, pause

Shit that if I told you, you’d be drinking like myself, god

But I’m all right without a reason to do well, star

My Mama was the last thing I wrote the tales for

Inside I’m tailspinning down with napalm

Strapped to my brain and on my back a flamethrower

Oh, you love it, what you came for

I tell myself that, I don’t really give a fuck what they want

But they paying for it, so pay it forward

Try to think of it like that to save thoughts

I’d be like, I’ll be right back in the same song

Never return and leave the happiest of days more

Cause I don’t get what you be putting me in lanes for

It’s fucking music, what you giving it a name for

I’ve been sayin' everything’s going fine, just takin' some days off

Like everything don’t pay it no mind, been puttin' a face on

But motherfucker, I’ve been goddamn lyin', I’m takin' the grace off

To go back in time, before the summer broke

Well, I guess this is what I aimed for

It’s fucking music, what you giving it a name for

I don’t get what you be putting me in lanes for

Never return and leave the happiest of days more

I’d be like, I’ll be right back in the same song

I try to think of it like that, but it seems wrong

Pay it forward, they paying for it

I don’t really give a fuck whatever they want

They love it right, it’s what you came for

I tell myself that, it ain’t more

Strapped to my brain, on my back a flamethrower

Inside I’m tailspinning down with napalm

My Mama was the thing I wrote the tales for

I’m all right without a reason, doing well, false

Shit if I told you you’d be drinking like myself, god

How far I got in not revealing all the cards

Oh GOSH

Got Jeanie dishing on her demons

After the scars, loss, boys, feelings

I guess this is the necessary heart bleeding

You want the bars, I want freedom

Dreams deferred, you don’t see ‘em

Keeping my word, so no fleeing

Feet on the ground, always

You can’t stop the wheels of a lost day