Dear Future (feat. Johatsu) - illneas

If you wrote a poem about your childhood Could we go and live there A poem about lost balls Toy soldiers And endless summers If you are afraid of growing up We can hide in a verse about morning cartoons and cereal If you hate your job We can play hide And never actually seek When you feel lonely You can relive your coziest snow day Let's write a verse about how much we hate adults And let's hope that time stops Let's write about boys that know how to feel And about girls that don't wear pink Until the illusion of identity shatters like our dreams This poem isn't about regrets Or wasted potential This poem is our new home With pillows from your sofa With verses about hugs and your friends Let's write a verse about the times you cried And how it shaped you Let's create stories about bravery and bruises And how the bullies of the world Will always be afraid to look you in the eyes Let's live in a poem about old bikes Scraped knees First kisses And forgotten lullabies Childhood was never about Carelessness and unlimited possibilities Just the ability to make kinder worlds If you wrote a poem about a stranger's childhood Would you go and live there You might write about friendless mornings Or wasted potential Lines about unrequited love Or about bullying Maybe you'll have to rhyme violence with innocence Can you create metaphors about visible and invisible scars The smell of alcohol and the echoes of screams Be prepared to write verses about death Or verses about rape Your story might include first breaths in the war Or last breaths anywhere in the world Bear in mind that you might write about the broken That became worst than their parents Or about the broken that never met their parents Are you prepared to live in a poem For those that came out of nothing and became nothing We design societies about fairness and balance But we seem to forget that our adulthood Is affecting someone else's childhood We walk this earth convinced this game will never be fair Even though we never tried to fix it But between the horror and the tenderness There are a few people that were dealt a bad hand And managed to change the narrative The people that refused to become bitter When everyone expected them to They understood that each step they took Was mocking their misfortune The brave souls that created something out of nothing We are in this together but each one of us is playing a very different game Some people carry heavy shadows With bodies and souls inked by horror stories Some people play against greater odds than you And win These people when they smile The universe smiles with them Before you judge someone Think about that

Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through We prepared for the turbulence But there's no preparing for this Got paid on Tuesday, but I'm still broke when the weekend ends Another trip around the sun, it was a good run Just mixing all of my prescriptions with my problems Yeah, streets are full of seasons Saw what they did to Jesus Dude'll kill you for no reason, and charge you for treason I know this one for a fact My phone, they got it on tap 'Cause every time I'm talkin' I can hear them in the back (Hands up) Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She's windin' like she losing her mind, yeah Knock, knock, knock, knock, who is it? (Hands up) She said this is a surprise visit It's my fantasy, I'm gon' live it Hands up, and don't you refuse it I wanna tattoo you on me Just look what you created Dear future self, I hope it's going well I'm drunk on cheap whiskey in an airport hotel, yeah Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She windin' like she losing her mind, yeah She's windin' like she losing her mind Knock, knock, knock, knock, who is it? Hands up You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through Hands up, ready for the boom Never mind the rocket launcher, talking 'bout a tune You can hear us comin' with the zoom Listen to the boom, boom we are breaking through