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"Why Should You Be Good?" by Patches

  1. Verse 1: Rapping about material just isn't me, and if it is, I'll hang it up
  2. Why should I be good, what is my incentive?
  3. Why add effort when I have no need to be inventive?
  4. Why pen a verse like I pretend that there's a penance
  5. When the alternate will get you on a one way trek to Venice?
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  7. Why should you be good and sacrifice when you could live
  8. When the option's often open to employ derivatives?
  9. What have you to offer when you own nothing to give
  10. You don't know what could happen. why put faith in these what ifs?
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  14. I could never speak for any other than myself
  15. But with how I see my ceiling, I could never in good health
  16. Make a song that didn't show the life that I've endured
  17. Where would people turn to learn these lessons unexplored
  18. Making songs in avarice is at its core impure
  19. So I refuse to sell a product if my best is not in store
  20. I know I crucify myself for all my past mistakes
  21. So I'll sustain my higher standards, never minding what it takes
  22. And if I start to lean off course, I'll ease the gas and pump the brakes
  23. (Break to catch breath)
  24. Suppose that I'm opposed to spending money in abundance,
  25. I write for the people, so think of all the thoughts it summons
  26. Heroes mold who we become, we're not this way from birth
  27. If I get blinded by the lights, my lows are drained of all their worth
  28. To quote a past philosopher, Ibn Khaldun made the statement
  29. Pain before you prosper should be most appreciated
  30. So no, I won't resort to the simpler of the options
  31. Cuz in the lens of history those are first of men forgotten
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  33. Chorus:
  34. Why can't you just see what I am? X2
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  36. Verse 2: I want to be remembered
  37. The pattern may repeat, but with fading days and memories
  38. Go most every artist but the greatest that will every be
  39. So what you yearn for most you will likely come to never see
  40. And if you're proven wrong, then you truly have my empathy
  41. If the Garden rots, will you truly keep this energy?
  42. Let me ask in quick retort, how many do you reckon
  43. That rap about materials that beckon recollection
  44. I'd wager money nowadays, they're working bed and breakfasts
  45. As their gimmick losing color caused accelerated exits
  46. Once the stars of "iced out" artists vanish into ash
  47. Their budgets and desires soon after begin to clash
  48. Now, what incentives drive me to condemn this line of thought
  49. Could it be I've worked in life to cash in what I've wrought?
  50. Could it be I want to be remembered for my efforts
  51. Could it be I want my work to form an earthly tether?
  52. I crave to be remembered for the thoughts I strung together
  53. So me and all my confidantes can sing along forever
  54. As the story goes, I'll add on things to keep remembered
  55. Starting with some core supporters not a man could sever
  56. Who practice what they preach with me from Janus to December
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  58. Chorus:
  59. Why can't you just see what I am? X2
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  61. Verse 3: Thugging isn't who I am, so I have to be dope in order to keep it real
  62. How about combining urban flavor with your talent?
  63. While moving tons of units, being candid is still valid
  64. It's not a type of lie to make connections with a listener
  65. Survival's most important, or is your mindset immature?
  66. I want to make a mil but wasn't raised up in a grainery
  67. I also wish to stay mostly untainted by chicanery
  68. I have a thousand stories that would quickly garner empathy
  69. Sustaining lies is harder, weaving such a tale so emptily
  70. So keeping lyrics real is the option that remains for me
  71. Is there another option than to opt for copping opulence?
  72. Sadly, it's the status quo that I seem to be up against
  73. What good ever came from simply doing what you want
  74. I'd love a room with millions I now don't have to flaunt
  75. But the way to cross that distance is to earn recurring profit
  76. There aren't many Kendricks, but too many think they're prophets
  77. These students of the game are either stupid or insane
  78. And with everything you've said, I'm convinced that you're the same
  79. The aloof need to learn to stick closely to their lane
  80. Or be a horror story that need learning through the pain
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  82. Verse 4: I'm trying to reach a different audience than my brain is trying to tell me
  83. And that's the central point where you and I both disagree
  84. The way that some get popular is partying and memes
  85. I don't want that in my stockings, that won't satisfy my needs
  86. I aim for higher goals than being a banger for 3 weeks
  87. In fact, it even serves as my antithesis it seems,
  88. In the end, you could be right in every word you say
  89. But walking through where none have gone's in truth only way
  90. I need to be creative, whether or not it's clothed with roses
  91. So when it all unfolds, I alone won't grow with showbiz
  92. Yeah, I'd make more money if I spoke of hoes and weed
  93. But that won't save the world and assist the men in need
  94. Like I've said before, and since you still can't understand
  95. The powerful are obliged to extend a helping hand
  96. And that's the kind of man that I'll show myself to be
  97. Tell me who looks to the Migos for assisting those in need?

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