[00:17.08]Yesterday  forget it
[00:18.80]Tomorrow is nada
[00:20.18]The present is right here
[00:21.63]Through the breath  watch it
[00:23.33]Atheist Jesus piece  hanging on a cross
[00:26.02]We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs
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[00:28.51]About how we got here
[00:30.11]What it is  what it isn't  shit
[00:31.74]Fate vs  fate  scrimmaging with coincidence
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[00:34.42]Leave out the market
[00:35.91]And hold up on the business end
[00:37.62]Focus on the genuine
[00:38.64]And everything else
[00:40.19]You can shed the skin
[00:41.58]I was a couple moves away from being dead
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[00:44.72]In that ER overdosing  eyes bleeding red
[00:47.56]I fell in love  made an album  got a buzz
[00:50.11]Lost it all  sobered up and guess what
[00:52.44]Now we meet again
[00:53.67]And now I'm back  finally just laughin'
[00:56.49]Expectations are resentments waiting to happen
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[00:59.62]Studying the Dharma  Karma  Vipassana practice
[01:01.95]Bahá'u'lláh  Buddah
[01:02.92]God to the mountaintop and I'm traveling
[01:05.20]Learning  yes  reflecting on what matters
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[01:08.75]People  impermanence  lack of attachments
[01:11.53]It's space and time  a couple man-made distractions
[01:14.57]The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture
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[01:18.18]Church  ha  this booth is my Vatican
[01:20.90]I don't control life  but I control how I react to it
[01:23.95]Student of the breath  break beats and balancing
[01:26.55]Desire vs  truth until I finally find happiness
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[01:54.18]I was put here to do something
[01:55.64]Before I'm lying in that casket
[01:57.46]I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is
[02:00.49]The world's a stage and we play a character  I found him
[02:03.37]It took me 20 something years
[02:04.96]And a bunch of shitty soundchecks
[02:06.43]I'm not gonna be content  till I find gratitude
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[02:09.46]Regardless of my sales or the record deals
[02:11.63]That they're handing you
[02:12.62]If the next generation takes a legacy in samples
[02:15.08]You will have a bunch of mp3's of misled kids to pass 'em to
[02:18.70]I use my veins to create the color I paint from
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[02:21.67]Delve into self until my heart becomes my paint brush
[02:24.75]I told my momma I'm not stopping till my names up
[02:27.74]Thinkin' those comments on that blog is gonna save us
[02:30.52]Searching for everything but God to validate ya
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[02:33.75]Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters
[02:36.62]Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant
[02:39.89]Truth  the only thing that I ever used in moderation
[02:42.41]So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle
[02:45.43]Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful
[02:48.48]Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical
[02:51.70]So that people can relate to where I've been
[02:53.93]Where I'm going  what I've seen  what I've heard
[02:56.27]From the guts  f**k the glory
[02:57.71]Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording
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[03:00.83]Many in my past and many that came before me
[03:03.77]I just keep walking my path and I'm blessed to share my story