Vicegrip

The deeper the experience
The less tools and instruments
Do we have to express that experience
The more shallow the experience
The more expression there is
Because the intensity of a deeper
Intimate feeling
Just simply can not be contained
By just conventional language
So what do we do to describe a more intense experience
We use the language of metaphor
Could be poetry, music, song
Other forms of expression
You see
Now it's instead of me describing it to you
Let me
Sing you a song

Yeah yeah yeah
Ay
Tryna getta
Vice grip
On my vices
With blood on my hands
And Palms sweatin
Like a man
About to lose his life here
We a long way from home
But home is where the heart is
And I keep mine on me
Lotta y'all don't even know that you lost it
Lookin at me crazy
Just kuzz I can't go about it this calmly
There was days I couldn't face me
Kuz the pain that I was causing
So now u couldn't pay me enough
To quiet my talkin
We pop out just to let u know we still alive
Used to pop off outta state
Then flee the case in the night
You hold a different type of weight
When you know wrong from right
But everyone gotta different lives
And I need the ones that's with ME
To stay alive
kuz we like family
We goin do or die
The type to say fuck a Grammy
We out here tryna change the times
We out here Smokin
Tryna burn the system to ashes
While the rest
Turning on they own
So they can cash in
And I been fasting in a famine
Not kuz I'm not hungry
But the gluttony
Is runnin ramped
Falsified understanding
Got us livin stagnant
U've probably caught me on a tangent
Bout how we miss out on heaven
Kuz the kingdom has been hidden by our devils
Too many humans crucified By the religious
Who's religion exists because of a crucifixion
And a man on a mission
With a message from God
So powerful
That They killed him
If u listen close
I think we missed it
So many lives
I
Have
Lived through
To get it
See I'm Still dyin everyday
Tryna live here
The system glitching
And I'm realizing
That this ain't even living
And when we say it's been a minute
That means it felt like forever
And damn it's been some minutes
Since I felt all put together
There's pieces missin
I can feel it in my spirit
Kuz everything is one
But people profit off division
And When breeding envy
Gives us false fulfillment
People fill with nothing
And than wonder why they feel this
Mans riches is fleeting
That ain't power
That's deceiving
Only a coward fears being equal with the people
I flame my reefer
Take your judgement
Keep spittin my shit
Like Ms. Cita's son here
Boulders bricks
Feet cemented
Still can't take me under
As above is below
I live jumpin off the summit
Plummet into the sky
And land on my feet
I realized only the strong
Know when a man is weak
And I been gone
Longer Than I've been
Where I need to be
I'm tryna right my wrongs
But that do not come easily