Dreaming With Our Eyes Open

Stuck in the same room in the same mood
 Everybody tried to tell me what I can't do
 Everybody tried to tell me that I changed too
 And I changed lanes from you lame dudes
 It's been a minute since I spilled my pain
 Had to take a step back and look at life in a different way
 If you want the change, you gotta be the change
 Now we're all the same
 Nobody wanna take the reins, nobody wanna push their brain
 Nobody will admit that they're fake for the facts they claim
 You see we're all imperfect in a perfect way
 And while we work all day, we're all work no play
 We're slaved to the loans and the bills we pay
 You consume a double cheese when the radio play
 Mainstream, Mickey D's and my shit gourmet
 I've been up for seven days straight
 Trying to figure out my fate
 Trying to figure out any way to put food on my plate
 But I sold a few tee's so I'm eating today
 Okay, I'm doing okay, could probably do better
 Came home to a letter, eviction
 I know I don't fit your description of a rapper
 But me I'm a clearer, they threw all the cheddar
 I know everything that glitter ain't gold
 Life is the clay, you too busy to mold
 Time here is taking it's toll
 We spend all our time without passion and then we get old
 Was told, I should go quit
 But none of you see all the letters I get from these kids
 Who hurt from within and don't wanna live
 And tell me my music is all that can give them hope
 Yeah, all we need is some hope
 And they tell me their family's broken and broke
 They using my music to cope
 I've been on that boat, held down by a rope
 Held down by a string, y'all looking for things
 I'm looking to change the perception of people and all of the beautiful things that it brings
 Yeah, record in my closet, don't make enough profit
 Y'all used to have morals and somehow you lost it
 Don't care about the money I spend on my coffin
 I care bout the people attending
 And often we're lost, lost in this world
 We're selfish to think, I could find happiness in a girl
 We're selfish to think we're elite, we destroy and deplete
 Our whole planet no smarter than squirrels
 So who wants to talk about that? Who wants to talk about facts
 Maybe I'd be in your mag if I added tunechi or bap-bap
 Or I talked about weed when I rap
 But fuck all of that, the voice of the youth
 The voice of the people, the real and the truth
 The voice of the one who had nothing to lose
 I speak for a heart that's been broken and beaten and bruised
 I'm tired of holes in my shoes
 Tired of having to move, tired of coming unglued
 Tired of cleaning your table and serving you food
 We are what we choose, if only you knew the shit that I've seen
 I can't tell if I'm lucid or living the dream
 I don't do it for me, do it all for the team
 I remember back living when I was a teen
 And my grandma she said I was worthless
 And my teachers said I had no purpose
 And my mama she said I was perfect
 I'm sitting on Twitter while I should be working on verses
 You're worth it, and when you feel weak
 The deeper the trench, the higher the peak
 See y'all are a piece of my legacy
 Cause you believe we can be anything and I wanna be... me
 
 Stuck in the same room in the same mood
 Everybody tried to tell me what I can't do
 Everybody tried to tell me that I changed too
 And I changed lanes from you lame dudes
 It's been a minute since I spilled my pain
 Had to take a step back and look at life in a different way
 If you want the change, you gotta be the change
 Now we're all the same
 Nobody wanna take the reins, nobody wanna push their brain
 Nobody will admit that they're fake for the facts they claim
 You see we're all imperfect in a perfect way
 And while we work all day, we're all work no play
 We're slaved to the loans and the bills we pay
 You consume a double cheese when the radio play
 Mainstream, Mickey D's and my shit gourmet
 I've been up for seven days straight
 Trying to figure out my fate
 Trying to figure out any way to put food on my plate
 But I sold a few tee's so I'm eating today
 Okay, I'm doing okay, could probably do better
 Came home to a letter, eviction
 I know I don't fit your description of a rapper
 But me I'm a clearer, they threw all the cheddar
 I know everything that glitter ain't gold
 Life is the clay, you too busy to mold
 Time here is taking it's toll
 We spend all our time without passion and then we get old
 Was told, I should go quit
 But none of you see all the letters I get from these kids
 Who hurt from within and don't wanna live
 And tell me my music is all that can give them hope
 Yeah, all we need is some hope
 And they tell me their family's broken and broke
 They using my music to cope
 I've been on that boat, held down by a rope
 Held down by a string, y'all looking for things
 I'm looking to change the perception of people and all of the beautiful things that it brings
 Yeah, record in my closet, don't make enough profit
 Y'all used to have morals and somehow you lost it
 Don't care about the money I spend on my coffin
 I care bout the people attending
 And often we're lost, lost in this world
 We're selfish to think, I could find happiness in a girl
 We're selfish to think we're elite, we destroy and deplete
 Our whole planet no smarter than squirrels
 So who wants to talk about that? Who wants to talk about facts
 Maybe I'd be in your mag if I added tunechi or bap-bap
 Or I talked about weed when I rap
 But fuck all of that, the voice of the youth
 The voice of the people, the real and the truth
 The voice of the one who had nothing to lose
 I speak for a heart that's been broken and beaten and bruised
 I'm tired of holes in my shoes
 Tired of having to move, tired of coming unglued
 Tired of cleaning your table and serving you food
 We are what we choose, if only you knew the shit that I've seen
 I can't tell if I'm lucid or living the dream
 I don't do it for me, do it all for the team
 I remember back living when I was a teen
 And my grandma she said I was worthless
 And my teachers said I had no purpose
 And my mama she said I was perfect
 I'm sitting on Twitter while I should be working on verses
 You're worth it, and when you feel weak
 The deeper the trench, the higher the peak
 See y'all are a piece of my legacy
 Cause you believe we can be anything and I wanna be... me