Excavate (feat. Saint Claire)

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Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
 Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain
 If I could read the world my notebook and these thoughts in it
 Would they judge me or love me for what I've written?
 Tryna get closer to spirit that enters the body
 It's the vessel like I'm not in it
 In fifty-something years, I won't be here
 There'll be a kid with some headphones coverinG his ears
 WalkinG 'round a hallway, dreaminG of ideas
 Find himself in the sound 'cause music is a mirror
 What you looking for?
 What you headed towards?
 What's your name worth when they mention yours?
 When you leave here, are you stepping forward?
 Can you remember your intention when they question yours?
 They're gonna question yours, they're gonna question yours
 I've been to rock bottom and I'm headed North
 If you don't love yourself, what's the respect for?
 If you don't love life, the check won't correct yours
 Excavate
 Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
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 Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain
 And I found peace
 And I found peace
 And I found peace
 I had this vision of my death
 Surrounded by people I love and respect
 In the baby blue Cadillac hearse
 PullinG me 'round the block that I rep
 The greatest fear that I've ever kept
 Is dying with regrets
 Like was I just alive for success?
 Or did I leave a better life for the rest?
 My greatest achievement isn't the dollars
 My greatest achievement isn't the followers
 My greatest achievement isn't the accolades
 My greatest achievement is my daughter
 WakinG up in the morning, beinG a father
 WatchinG the light kiss her eyelids
 HearinG her sing along to Chance
 And beinG like, "Yeah, that's my kid"
 The light started to glow
 And the saxophone from Coltrane started to blow
 Tender, laying in the snow, turn on my headphones
 Couple miles to go before I run out of road
 Excavate
 Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
 Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain
 And I found peace
 And I found peace
 And I found peace
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 Hold me up into the light and study every part of me
 I'm an open book, no, I don't mind, but sometimes I'm hard to read
 Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home
 But this life is so hard to leave
 But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me?
 Hold me up into the light and study every part of me
 I'm an open book, no, I don't mind, but sometimes I'm hard to read
 Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home
 But this life is so hard to leave
 But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me?
 Gemini
 

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Duration
03:56
Key
3
Tempo
95 BPM

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