Make It Now

Yo, if you have a dream (I'm living my life in the new world)
And you don't chase it (Dare I say it, new world)
Who will (I'm living my life in the new world)
It's Mor Flid, Switch it Up (Oh, yea I said it, new world)

I never did it for the resume
I did it for myself
Society, it tried to throw away
All my mental health
I know I gave my life impediments
I did it for the wealth
To this come up, I'm a veteran
My medals on the shelf

They lookin' back at me
Remindin' me of the potential that I've been achievin'
Even when it seemed that the smoke was makin' it hard to breathe and see
Because I always did the readin'
That my teachers gave me
Even when I didn't wanna be
What they said I had to be

Just to make it out
How was I supposed to know it wasn't raining out
When I all I saw from the world was colors faded out
I had to learn how to paint them out
So I could make it now (1, 2, 3, jump)

So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now

Ay, ay, ay
I'm thinking back to grade one
Used to have some
Modification
To my behavior
A restrainer
On my failure

Raise up both ya hands
Represent the kids who can't
Throw 'em up for those with bands
Around they legs who cannot stand
It's time we summon the stars
To take the freedom behind the bars
They tried to kill your mind and heart
We said no more this time it's ours

So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now

You see they wouldn't let me
Just ask more than three little questions a day
What a way to say
"Hey, you're the typa kid who could maybe show us how to change
And save our planet
Before we drown ourselves in thinking
That the only green is pay when its hay day"
"Naw, we'll just bring him inside for his play date
Maybe show him what it feels like to live a regime
Where you can't even believe
There's a green light letting you pass"

Cause, I was livin' in the shackles
Placed on me by the very same spackle
Used by the faculty
Every time I had an inclination
For an explanation
On the information they gave me
But I was tryna know more on the daily
I guess I better act like a baby
Only way to listen to the world that they made me

So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I could make it now
So I'ma make it now

I'm living my life in the new world
Dare I say it, new world
I'm living my life in the new world
Oh, yea I said it, new world