Like a Butterfly

(0:05: First Verse)

Oh and I've

Been thinking about our gracious lives

Been tinkering with audacious lies

Been sinking shouting contagious cries

Share your pain with me the end is nigh

Keep on going up and up in the world, like a butterfly

Rise up, pulled down counting how many niggas died

They putting us in a cage, we new slaves, drowning with self pride

Chaining us with dirty laws, killing us, if we don't abide

They imprisoning us with coke and meth soon cyanide

All of our cities burning down, unconscious of all of our strife

We been taught to submit, all of our lives

And now out of relief I sigh

Politicians fight and deny

Cheat citizens and gentrify

Dirty tricks, oversimplify

Beat our ass gouge out our eyes

Gangs up, all they do is destabilize

And we let them in, like we paralyzed

(1:05: Chorus)

Oh and I've been thinking about my whole life, (whole life)

Oh and I try to just cleanse my soul dry, (soul dry)

Too many lost, and way too many goodbyes, (goodbyes)

Get out of my cocoon, about to fly up like a butterfly, (butterfly)

(1:36 - 1:45 pause, then Verse 2)

Once again, we talk about the same things

People looking sad, not knowing what faith brings

Hope, prosperity, ends up feeling heavenly

It's like ecstasy, paradise of serenity

(2:08 beat drop)

Eighteen-sixty three, Lincoln got the slaves pleased

I got a question to ask though, are we really free?

(2:16 : Chorus)

Oh and I've been thinking about my whole life, (whole life)

Oh and I try to just cleanse my soul dry, (soul dry)

Too many lost, and way too many goodbyes, (goodbyes)

Get out of my cocoon, about to fly up like a butterfly, (butterfly)