It's a lifestyle It's a dream It's some long days It's some longer nights The atmosphere The change The desire The vibe Ouu, let me tell ya I'm a soul with conviction I'm a soul man Ahh Ouu, let me say it again I'm a soul with conviction I'm a soul man Don't vex me Don't text me, no I'm not the same I keep my distance from you It keeps me sane My books not finished yet I can't explain the pain I'm individual, yeah Woah, I'm spiritual Yeah Let me say it again I'm a soul with conviction I'm a soul man, yeah Let me say it again I'm a soul with conviction I'm a soul man, yeah I'm back where I started I've shed and I'm wearing new skin but I know that I've been here before A familiar place to meet myself and think Ponder new escapes and ways to win Deep inside I gaze and place my bid All I want is peace See the sun through the trees all it takes is belief No givin' up, don't give a fuck Firm grip on a dollar and a dream Until we meet again

(Gimme love) (All I want) (Symbiosis) Give you love, all the love All that I can give Gimme love, I need all that is given All my life, all want is symbioses Give me advantages I give you advantages Call me when you want it bodily You've got keys to a whole different side of me Suddenly, silently, on the low-low In your garden, I sow Privately, I talk to god when inside of that I felt at home in that environment I protect that environment by any means We don't waste it When you got it, savor me We don't race there When it's slow, it tastes lovely Take Take what you want, you can take If I ain't got it, we can make We just might put it on tape Ooh Give you love, all the love All that I can give Gimme love, I need all that is given All my life, all want is symbioses Give me advantages I give you advantages Hit my line when it's late in the lunar You lonely, I leap out of bed just to lay with you Li-Li-Li-Libate your lotus Unlock you out of your lingerie into lunacy, yeleleh I love when we get lost in All this loving, that's bubbling and elevating Let's get lifted and out of our heads Don't you loosen your legs We don't waste it When you got it, savor me We don't race there When it's slow, it tastes lovely Take Take what you want, you can take If I ain't got it we can make We just might put it on tape Ooh Give you love, all the love All that I can give Gimme love, I need all that is given All my life, all want is symbioses Give me advantages I give you advantages Give you love, all the love All that I can give Gimme love, I need all that is given All my life, all want is symbioses Give me advantages I give you advantages Make me wanna raise a daughter and a son now Can't afford it but I'm wanting it somehow Can't avoid it, how I want you when the sun's out I enjoy how you love it when the sun shines I just wanna see you flourish in the sun shine I don't wanna put not borders on your sun shine I give you words of affirmation when the sun's down We make waves high enough to make the sun drown

Where my money at? (Ah-ahh) We Post in the back (Ah-ahh) Picking cotton for the slave masters Got a pocket full of slave masters I stack like a piggy Stack Georges On a diddy, biggy looking boy In the pursuit of a bigger piggy for the coins That's Collateral For the Kodak With the cabbage An the fat cabin With the kiddies and the toys And the love that will never know the feeling of divorce There's a void in the work force That will never fill There are fields you could till That will never ever yield Hmm So painful Almost painless Couldn't spot the spot Almost stainless Same spot for years Almost aimless You ain't going nowhere Bank looks shameful Walking in shameless Like you ain't dangling From the skin of your pinky When Sallie Mae Starts to rang-a-lang Car note Phone bill Barely Orangutan Electric, gas, rent Left you dangling Where my money at? (Ah-ahh) We Post in the back (Ah-ahh) Picking cotton for the slave masters Got a pocket full of slave masters I was in the belly of the beast Slangin' E & weed Just to get a bite to eat And I ain't tripping over nothing Cuz the setup is the setup from the jump And I ain't bluffin' Tryin kill us by a dozen Talkin' father, mother, sister, brother Uncle, Aunty, Cousin Is you feelin' what I'm saying Cuz the problems are the same Ain't a damn thing changed Corporate America Banish the sons Of the melanin heritage Catch me a charge If I look like I tan it up I been on the run from the law What they aiming for? System so flawed What the taxes be paying for? Kill us all off Take the flash and the gold from us Take the bootstraps Tell 'em pull themselves up By the same straps Fuck is that? Where my money at? God damn Where my money at? (Ah-ahh) Peoples in the back (Ah-ahh) Picking cotton for the slave masters Got a pocket full of slave masters Picking cotton for the slave masters Got a pocket full of slave masters I got bills They like buildings I'm like Bob I just build 'em Ain't no walls I got ceilings They got laws For my feelings I got bills They like buildings I'm like Bob I just build 'em Ain't no walls I got ceilings They got laws For my feelings Where my money at? (Ah-ahh) We Post in the back (Ah-ahh) Picking cotton for the slave masters Got a pocket full of slave masters

Good Lord What you don't say, what you don't I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care (YEBO) All them other dudes by your side You can let them ride off to the sunset I'm a sunrise Why don't you want to collabo-llaborate? (Hey!) Even though I make mistakes, oh yeah I'm not a bad guy I ain't all put together But if you stick around You gon' see I'm getting better and I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care Mmm this could be a Cinderella story for a fella If you let a brother come and spend a minute With you only got a penny and I got from my loafers Bet if I got something worth a penny, I can invest and I'd be the best investment you've ever made I'm invested but you don't care It's interesting that you don't care But you care about some less interesting guys Those guys are wack (Wack!) Just bring it back Bring it back to me cause I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care Get that drank (Get that drank!) In your cup (In your cup!) Sip that drank (Sip that drank!) Lift it up (Lift it up!) Point your fingers (Point your fingers!) At your boo (At your boo!) Say 'baby I did it' (Baby I did it!) Just for you (Just for you!) If you got a minute can you spend it on me? (On me, on me) Gotta get in 'fore I blow up and I got moneys Cause you know I'm gon' get it (Gon' get it, gon' get it!) Yeah, you know I'm gon' get it (Gon' get it, gon' get it!) Come get it, don't sweat it, celebrate, confetti Show me love when you're ready 'Til then I'll be chillin' Speak cause you know I can't read my ions Can't spend more time unless I Gotta wait for the stars to realign You said 'it's all about time' Girl, I just got signed Why you gotta be all you, all you? Soon it's gonna be all me, all me You gon' see that it's too late and You gon' say 'I wish we dated' But I love you so I'm waitin', stop! Procrastinatin', start appreciatin' It's not too late I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care Baby, I did it (Baby, I did it) Just for you (Just for you) Baby, I did it (Baby, I did it) Just for you (Just for you) Did it, did it (Did it, did it) Just for you (Just for you) Did it, did it (Did it, did it) Just for you (Just for you) I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care I did it just for you I did it just for you I did it just for you And you just don't care

If you found some other dude What do I do? If he loves you truly How could I not love him too? If he improves you More than I used to I don't want nothing but you Getting what you need Even if it ain't from me 'Cause I love you And what love is Never selfish And of service 'Cause I love you And what love is Never selfish And on purpose If I said I had to leave you What would you do? Would you still talk to me? I never want to be cruel to you I can tell you the truth Or what you need to hear If I had to choose Then what would you do? Giving it up is not giving up Giving it up is not giving up If I had to break the news (news) Is it win or lose? (Lose) Giving it up is not giving up Giving it up is giving 'Cause I love you And what love is Never selfish And of service 'Cause I love you And what love is Never selfish And on purpose If I had to choose 'Cause I love you 'Cause I love you ('cause I love you) And what love is (and what love is) Never selfish (never) And of service (ooh) 'Cause I love you (I love you) And what love is (and what love is) Never selfish And on purpose

I watched queen and slim, I only liked the driving scenes I don't like watching black folks slaughtered It triggers trauma even in black movies Still can't survive the scenes, I only liked the driving scenes Where I'm from people don't survive the scenes They never leave Ain't no adventure movies All drama and comedy, and horror eventually Caged birds don't sing, they scream Like banshee's tangled in branches When what you thought is home starts taking advantage I only liked the driving scenes When I was young traveling was my father's dream We star gazed, wanderlusted horizons From a different vantage What if we could vanish in vibrancies privately On a different canvas, what is black? What if we could abandon the fallacies of following Those we thought were empowering All the while where devouring What of all the agony of stagnancy, the malady Would it pacify these things? Would it patch a lot seams? Would it petrify these dreams And make them stone so they never die And we forever Drive Seems like Like we ain't never gone arrive Seems like Like we just in it for the ride Seems like Like we been ready for a while Where do we go from here Everything flows from here My grandmother took my father for drives, just for the drive My father told us stories and wrote us in as explorers At the age of 29 I travelled the world more times than most of mine I survived the scenes I come from hope makers and mold breakers and old faithfuls We all sacred, my whole table, we all favored My ancestors they dance, festive for my investments They vicariously enjoy my world tours We tore holes in supposed roles and disposed Rode out of a closed fist with fist closed I ride till rims fold with thin soles Ten toes all my tribe down for the Drive Seems like Like we ain't never gone arrive Seems like Like we just in it for the ride Seems like Like we been ready for a while Where do we go from here Everything flows from here Where do we go from (drive, oooh, ooooooh) Ooh can we drive (drive, oooh, ooooooh) Oooh Got a long way to go (drive, oooh, ooooooh) Ee yeah, yeah, yeaahh (drive, oooh, ooooooh) I'm just reversing some transatlantic curses I'm just regurgitating what ain't of service I'm just refurbishing a sense of urgency I'm just repurposing my purpose When I date these days I think about the emergence Of the updated version of my person I just wanna be a superhero like my dad I just want our future, brighter than my past