Why Can’t You?

Look outside
Watching the stream go by
Look at the mountain high
Oh, see all the birds that fly

They're so alive (we so alive)
Look at you (look at you)
Wrap up your foolish pride girl (foolish pride will get you hurt)
Hurting so much inside (we all hurting)

Oh, feeling less (much less) than half alive
So why (Why can't you?)
Why can't you? (Why can't you?)
Let's go

I kill mics, it's never too late
And you're never too old
Then they handcuffed the messenger
For the dreams he sold

Unless your name's Jermaine
This game's so cold
Unless your name's Aubrey
You probably never going gold

Huh, I mean platinum
You'll probably never make it rapping
Barkhad Abdi
Now look, I'm the captain

Ya'll niggas been slacking
I been nice since back then
Before I had a west side connect
Like Mac 10, I'm stressed

I just need some TLC
I thought the way to success
Was a college degree
But in the barbershop was more knowledge for me

Truth is, I coulda saved like 60 gs
I'm the best that never was, Marcus Dupree
You more Marcus Jordan, and less Marcus Garvey
You less Lori Lightfoot, and more Lori Harvey

Is it wrong I want my daughters
To be more than a Barbie?
Damn, huh, and that's no shot to the barbz
My pop spent 17 years behind bars

Huh, or detentions, ya'll not honorable mention
We trying to fill the void, craving for attention
We used to act out in class and get detention
In school and out of school, suspension

We learned how to treat a woman from Big Pimpin'
That's why we was limping
Anything else was simpin'
We thought they was supporters
They was henchman
I'm the answer
You Todd McColough and George Lynch and

Theo Ratliff, we talking 'bout practice?
Stories they tell in they raps, is all factice
You thought your favorite rapper was him?
You got catfished

It's a method to my madness, it's all tactics
Ya'll still hustling backwards, listen to my exact words
You know the sheep always gonna follow the herd
When the mountain steep maybe we can fly like a bird
Why can't you? Oh lord

On this road to success, it's detours
Keep climbing
It's the future at last
Yeah, huh, and I just killed this shit, need a repass
It's the future at last (at last)

And I just killed this shit, I need a repass
It's the future at last
We free at last (yeah we free at last)
It's the future at last
And I just killed this shit, I need a repass
It's the future at last

Mysterious (Let's go)
C.K. 215 (Let's go)
Wilby 20 years plus (Let's go)
10 toes (Let's go) Rug! (Yeah)
Batcave
Supreme excellence