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Square Circle (Album Ver.) by Artemis Patches
- Verse 1: Preamble
- (0:21 0:31)
- "Entering the ring, at two hundred twenty pounds:
- An undeveloped challenger who thinks that he amounts
- To those who came before him, who are actually important
- Now he seeks to speak so nothing that's reported is distorted"
- (0:32 0:42)
- Now I know a thing or two about going down a newer route
- Disavowing how you been to bring a newer version out
- Touting how you could improve once sitting in reflection
- Using what you've learned to go a positive direction
- (0:43 53)
- They say complacency is the antithesis of progress
- And if this ain’t the gospel truth, then nobody is honest
- Cuz when I flash back to the past and my actions
- I'm sickened and I'm saddened how I sat in satisfaction
- Soda sitting in a cup and a warm Playstation
- It was school and paperwork then I was off to the basement
- I was happy where I was not perceiving my youth as wasted
- And when the pace changed, I could flake up or embrace it
- A soccer field revealed the faults that til then were concealed
- Post to post felt like coast to coast and I was forced to yield
- My diaphragm expanded like my mind in the same moment
- How I let my body go was now a known opponent
- So what did I do to amend this? What did I find in forensics?
- A little show called Smackdown with a packed crowd that could end this
- I was enraged with myself, but I was engaged with the stories
- So I swore that I would work to join the catalyst before me
- It's a bit of a quid pro quo cuz I wanna note the role of my family
- My brother's a gridiron graduate and I took all the abuse he could hand me
- I tried to survive the hard times I was placed in
- And the only way is to erase the days that I'm complacement
- (1:17 1:27)
- Day one of my training came with more than I could handle
- My spirit was destroyed and my body was dismantled
- I was like a sacrifice to wolves hungry for supper
- It did a body bad, but yet I knew I'd have to suffer
- (1:28 1:38)
- I tortured myself willingly to get through the timidity
- And villany that my kin attempted to instill in me
- And even though I cried, I showed myself I could survive
- I swore I would improve while I made my feelings hide
- Verse 3: Hard Work
- (1:39 1:49)
- So I did just what I said and dedicated near a decade
- To the sport that fit my fancy and advanced me to my best days
- There were bruises down the path, and some left in x rays
- But I made it through the storm by getting rid of rest days
- (1:50 2:00)
- From complacent in my basement to replace my own pace
- I worked the grind since I was nine to reach a better place
- I learned of "discipline" along with all its synonyms
- And what it means to be a team was beat into my skin
- Verse 4: Connections Made
- (2:01 2:11)
- And as for my accomplices, the ones who shaped and sharpened me
- The ones who suffered with me, who assisted my epiphany
- We are branded by the undertakings we withstood
- And I aint tryna milk the sport, but it surely did me good
- (2:12 2:22)
- No friendships I could mention could possibly equate
- To the men I went to war beside, since they alone relate
- To monkey rolls and heavy breathing, heaving over trash cans
- And ninety three degrees inside of heated rooms and sweatpants
- (2:23 2:33)
- Though most are MIA today, the good ones kept their passion
- They can understand my inexplicable attraction
- All I have to pull me back are memories as reminders
- The greatest lesson here is the post mortem binds survivors
- Verse 5: Summary
- (2:34 2:44)
- This stint left me in splints, but I still reminisce with bliss
- And thank the blessing dressed in wrestling for all its gifts
- Many dared to share in the affairs of the square circle
- But many are deterred just because the road is hurtful
- (2:45 2:55)
- This is the what I wrote for what many can't understand
- To show the latent pain in every practice, every gland
- Every lesson that I've learned, every failure, every friend
- And it hurts me so much that it shall not come again
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