Take Me Back

Take me back to when I was young
The beginning of my run, as I circle back on track
I prepare for the impact
Plunging into my past, knowing the future will never last
So I decipher, converting material
Into a cypher, before I pass
Continuing to reminisce, where ignorance was bliss
This cold world we live in, didn't seem to exist
My innocence appears, in my rear
So I start to steer, with these circumstances
My conscience begins to veer
Reality sets in, in a race to nowherе quickens
For the human race, I'm sickеned
So it becomes the mission, to stare time and actions
In the face, forced to chase time, it seems undefeated
Head down, I accelerate through this rhyme, so

Take me to my start, turning back, I pull apart
From this human race to nowhere
In which society's left a mark, as you
Keep chasing hundreds I keep it a hundred, chasing rhymes
Paying it forward with these dimes, clocking this overtime

Take me, back to my adolescence
I develop through these lessons
Second verse, we immerse,
Within these bars caged up in succession
Taking my time with the rhyme
Stay in tune for the procession
Time for a progression
No time for indiscretion, so I will
Take it back before, society seemed to move
When technological devices, weren't taken for granted or pursued
Genuine talk in style, going the extra mile for a smile
Now social media, changed the medium
As we become hostile, at this stage
Racing, no definite goal in mind
Any path we find, fast forward
But instead we must rewind
We're stuck in this daze, this everlasting societal maze
A conundrum, we're running from
A race to nowhere, for the rest of our days

Take me to my start, turning back, I pull apart
From this human race to nowhere
In which society's left a mark, as you
Keep chasing hundreds I keep it a hundred, chasing rhymes
Paying it forward with these dimes, clocking this overtime

Now, take me to the present
Where it starts to beg the question
What's your purpose,
In this race to nowhere every single second, so we
Seem to move each day
This illusion, has us in a daze
And this GOAT, who's name is time
Robs us blind each and every day
This human race has changed
Like the man in my mirror pane
The more you see it, the more it hurts
To see yourself grow, it's like a curse
I rehearse this verse, knowing the closer to being gone
Makes you wake up the most, every line is devised, and not misspoke

In the circle of life, where breathing doesn't make you alive
But your conscience eats away at you,
To help you stay woke and survive
As I, go against the grain
You know the name Money Mike
Use these moments in this race
To make an everlasting claim
As I, go against the grain
You know the name Money Mike
Use these moments in this race
To make an everlasting claim, so

Take me to my start, turning back, I pull apart
From this human race to nowhere
In which society's left a mark, as you
Keep chasing hundreds I keep it a hundred, chasing rhymes
Paying it forward with these dimes, clocking this overtime
Take me to my start, turning back, I pull apart
From this human race to nowhere
In which society's left a mark, as you
Keep chasing hundreds I keep it a hundred, chasing rhymes
Paying it forward with these dimes, clocking this overtime

I'm punching out, societal standards, aren't the master plan
I'm punching out, societal standards, aren't the master plan
I'm punching out, societal standards, aren't the master plan
I'm punching out, societal standards, aren't the master plan