Terrarium - Instrumental

Ooh oh whoa oh
Ooh ah oh oh ohh

Virtues and vices growing here in this terrarium, I
Got herbs growing in this grove inside my cranium, I
Might pluck em all, multiply seeds and bury em, I
Got heavy thoughts, a hundred branches gotta carry em, I've never
Been one to fall for tactics of hypnosis
But the way the petals are spinning, I'm mesmerized and focused
Departed from the data-driven plan to stay on doses
I'm growing my black wings, can't remain in statue poses
(Nah)

I'm growing thicker skin akin to silver chain mail
(That's right)
My blood was born on an island where real rebels hail
Looking at the wall of freedom, no height they couldn't scale
But the weight of justice isn't always falling on two scales
Knock, knock, reality pounding like cinder block
So I'm overlooking docks and escaping my darker thoughts
(Escaping)
Wind all in my locs on the eve of the equinox
Keeping my demeanor smooth as Riesling on the rocks

Virtues and vices growing here in this terrarium, I
Got herbs growing in this grove inside my cranium, I
Might pluck em all, multiply seeds and bury em, I
Got heavy thoughts, a hundred branches gotta carry em

Lemme reach for what I need
Grab a plant from way inside to tranquilize
No ketamine, just serotonin vines
Got orchards full of seeds like these, you know I did decide
To replicate the recipe I raised at age of 9
(Yea)
Imagination infinite, no matter what is imminent
Be facing it, eyes on the prize, blind if it isn't it
Progress is a language, I've been fluent in it
(Fluent in it)
Cultivating joy and some happiness, yea
Built bravery from bare bones like Haitian architecture
(That's right)
I rap these lessons to you, cause boredom would shadow lectures
(That's right)
You need to mirror soldiers and sacrifice many pleasures
(That's right)
The long run gains have a stride you cannot measure
In seconds, feet or kilometers
I crack thermometers
with a flow that echoes burr
Make you want polar fur
Make you seek an aquifer
When heat is melting dirt
Ooh, damn, damn, damn