Aftermath (Drifting)

Good morning

Wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived
I wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived

I spark one up, well aware someone could've run up
On me when I was done up, after school could've sprung up
With a gun, split my dome to bits
Over first day clothes that they could not get
I admit, survival guilt pass through my mind
Guess it wasn't my time, stars wasn't aligned
I recline, reminisce over the time
Older cousin killed driving, I was next in the line
Treece got her own license, I was tryna get mine
Remember getting that call, couldn't fight through the crying
Unk told me be strong, in the funeral line
I declined that fear, cause I won't be confined
To those thoughts, turn, tossed in my bed for naught
Caught forethought stuck in my head and taught
That you can't fear death, when we all allotted
With time on the clock, not a second is lost

Wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived
I wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived

I spark one up, thinking bout my old friend Nick
Slid to the wrong clique, with some fucked up shit
Next I see him on the news, let the story omit
Mind gone over drugs, he ain't know that he hit
Took his own life, another one gone in the night
Den been trapping niggas, to the left and the right
And despite, very few seeing the light
Somehow I was spared, when the window was tight
Seen a young dude cuffed on the corner and knew
Bullets flew through the air, then I walked right through
Came a whole ten sooner, could've been gone too
But I left without a scratch, that's the card I drew
One facing full time, morgue just got two
Cause he won't make it out, really nothing is new
Hard truth, I'm feeling Ms. Hill's debut
Miseducation waste another life, what's new

Wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived
I wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived

I spark one up over time, refined my own mind
Cause I couldn't let it waste, inside the outline
Designed for more climbs, outside the confines
Unbound from those binds, and moved through those vines
It seems, lately I've been flooded by dreams
I survived test one, at the end of my teens
Story only just begun, but the path unseen
Dove deep in the dept, feeling stuck in between
Them dreams, death seen, at the end of the stream
I was stuck inside a rut, I was losing my steam
Fearing wasting these blessings, why did she choose me
When patience just lessen, which of me will she see
Foolish hope up in the sky, I survive or thrive
Can't drive in neutral, so I thrive for life
What's the next page written, what will I decide
See you on the other side, of the great divide

Wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived
I wake up early in the morning and I look at the sky
Some days I be mourning, thankful that I'm alive
I survived
I survived

I survived
I survived
Gotta more than just survive
Gotta make sure I'm alive
I survived
I survived
Gotta more than just survive
Gotta make sure I'm alive
Gotta more than just survive...