Lion

Don't know what could hold me down
Found home in my homies now
Homeostasis is my basis now
Hone in, my aim is to make a place get loud
Found rhythm, — learned nothing is given
Listen, all this can be taken
So take a breath and pace your rest
Then make a step, you could yourself when i didn't
Thought i was finished
I couldn't see
Vision been waiting for me
End was a better beginning
Day is whatever you make it
Your fate could be yours for twisting
I had a wish, life could be better than this
I could get up i got loving to live
Someone to kiss, something bout kids
Injustice to fix and something to give
What is it?
I left the past to start moving on
Found the things that moved me, and music that had me doing songs
Family that'd prove me wrong, grow me strong
Hold me close, and told my soul it'd be alright,
Show me light like dawn after the darkest night
It's been a minute since knowing pain
This the sound of feeling, and healing, and having more to say
Resilience when life's wild, while it's also known to tame
What happens to a lion if it ain't allowed grow its mane?

When you haven't had happinesses up in your soul
And your passion is passive, like you ain't feeling whole
Whatever happened, the past gon be up to you to write
Let's reimagine where chapters go in the future like
Who recites is who decides, it's you who gets to choose your life
How you view your plight, lose, take roots, or to use the fight
To fuel your light, — I grew to fight, in the booth with mics
Spewing lines all through the night, til you and i could reunite
Do this right, use the rhymes to glue a pride
Renewing life, this living was a prison, now we're overdue in time
And we are on track, we are on songs, the past is prologue
Ae are on trails, on a good path all along
Supposed to be a king, life keeps testing me
But i keep questioning this quest that's been set for me
Thinking that's best, but that's just what gets to me
This life's a jungle, yes, but that don't mess with destiny

I'm done running, I'm coming to stage coming to terms, and I'm coming of age
Now I'm coming with words, and I run with a herd
So I'm coming to work — hard in humbling ways,
I'm firm and I'm sure, and I've learned that I've got something to say
With substance and grace plus some toughness to face
Now rage, rage against the dying of the day
Like a lion vying for its prey, kill it
I've been trying to pray
That my grind over time will take shape, my life full of days
Where I ain't dying to live, or living to die, I rewire the cage
I try to create cuz i'm tired of escape
I put my life in a tape, make the pain a fight to relate
When you download
It's my life that you're trying to save
Tied to the lines, I feel free, I know where I'm bound
This the sound of a lion vibin' to loud roars from a crowd
Although life will give you scars, leave your mark on your kingdom
Everything the light touches is the home that you sing from