Patience/22

We came from the same mistakes, yeah (Same mistakes, yeah)
I know what it takes to break it (Takes to break it)
The test we don't know is patience (Know is patience)
They left me alone with patience (Alone with patience)

Yeah my hair got longer
My rhymes got stronger
Indifferent disposition made my mind work smarter
We going full throttle, DD no bottle
Always chase a bag
That was always my motto
Yeah, but now I've grown a little bit
I see my parents getting older
Yeah they've grown a little bit
If they praise me for the slightest
Tell me why I feel like shit
But really how could I fail
If after all, I'm still their kid
Dastardly dichotomy
Who I am and I'm tryna be
The world is in my hands so nobody is really stopping me
Time is moving faster than some newlyweds in Vegas
I may even lose track
Sometimes I don't know what the day is
Yeah, but I just tune in and tune out
The negative energy
I don't care for what they talk bout
Regardless I'ma keep making these hits with my brother
Yeah That's NC CARVER TO INFINITY
Word to my mother

We came from the same mistakes, yeah (Same mistakes, yeah)
I know what it takes to break it (Takes to break it)
The test we don't know is patience (Know is patience)
They left me alone with patience (Alone with patience)

Walking on the grains of my past
Looking up the spine of an hourglass
Top heavy with the time we have left
The now falls just to crash
Crash into another year of working on my craft
But how can I be patient when it's gone in a flash?
It was only yesterday we carpentered our path
But now it's going different from the plans that we had, as we laugh, do the math
Add it up, all the days we never took
Off the brakes or the books, Compensate, "never yuh"
If we say it then we did it, created it, or believed it
This is just the beginning because our best you haven't seen yet
But it's easy to fall to the hands of tomorrow
Live another day and learn to live it in sorrow
Yeah it's easy to fall to the hands of tomorrow
I know this probably won't matter 'til I'm gone but
Yeah

We came from the same mistakes, yeah (Same mistakes, yeah)
I know what it takes to break it (Takes to break it)
The test we don't know is patience (Know is patience)
They left me alone with patience (Alone with patience)

They left me alone with patience

22 gon' be that year that they come up from the bottom
NC is to Carver like Gomorrah is to Sodom
Making dumb mistakes, doing seldom what they taught 'em
Sinners looking back, making sodium a problem
22 gon' be that year that they come up from the bottom
NC is to Carver like Gomorrah is to Sodom
Making dumb mistakes, doing seldom what they taught 'em
Sinners looking back, making sodium a problem

I had to lose it to know what I had
Salt in my wound, as I'm looking back
Failed to attack, chasing a bag
But the aftermath of where we're at
Fell flat in my lap, and all I knew was to laugh
It's been a long time coming
The turning point of our lives has been running
Through my mind, all the dots and the lines
That connect to the trials of our pride and our debt
Stretch miles from the time that we met
When you said
"The worlds changing
Don't know how or why, and I probably can't blame it
On anything in particular, that's how it goes
Life moves on and we'll probably never know"
Mac said it best, we're all Swimming in Circles
Aging every year, just jumping the hurdles
First 20, now 21
22 is the year, we took time but we won, uh

22 gon' be that year that they come up from the bottom
NC is to Carver like Gomorrah is to Sodom
Making dumb mistakes, doing seldom what they taught 'em
Sinners looking back, making sodium a problem
22 gon' be that year that they come up from the bottom
NC is to Carver like Gomorrah is to Sodom
Making dumb mistakes, doing seldom what they taught 'em
Sinners looking back, making sodium a problem (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

I said we're never going back
You know I put that on my last name
Roxa$ said In Due Time will be when we find our own claim to fame
And riches, my sunglasses prescription
So even when it's bright
I'll never lose sight of the vision
It was blurring for a moment
Cause The breadth of possibility
Was making me overthink and second guess my abilities, damn
All the while, now it was my turn, I was stepping up to bat
Bases loaded, crunch time, and now there's no more looking back
Growing up not growing old, only alive a couple ages
I'm not worried bout the future, I got my back for all the stages
Stress I'm letting it fade
You can call that past tense for the of my rest days, damn
2 decades in the making
Give or take a year
Another 3-6-5
I'm glad, We get to say we're here
2 decades in the making
Give or take a year
Another 3-6-5
We'll shine before we disappear

We'll shine before we disappear
We'll shine before we disappear