I look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine
I'm just fine
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine
I'm just fine
In the shadow of a 242 million dollar jail for the youth
Could've used all that money for some food
Maybe studios and soundproof panels for the booths
Maybe books for the schools
Maybe trauma-focused specialists
Grants for small PLC
And women-owned businesses
Jobs for veterans and recently released prisoners
I could keep listing them
Would you keep listening? (Would you keep listening?)
Look at, look at both hands now
Could you please lift them up?
Keep on lifting 'em
Reach for the ceiling with your palms up catching 'em
Questions keep stacking
'Cause I don't see the answer good enough to stop asking 'em
Trying, keep speeding up
Friends keep passing but enemies survive like we on the wrong side
And they have lost sight of it
Have-nots fight for it
Middle pick a side that'll ride from em'
Shit is too simple though
Hella two dimensional
Keep your whole numbers, I be with them decimals
Tryna eat healthy, but still, breathe chemicals
Never beat you up because
Uncle gon' spend it all
Building up a farm where I grow my own vegetables
Cook my own edibles
I'm a flawed man, don't put me on no-pedestal
I just know things 'cause my brain won't let 'em go
Tryna let 'em know
We could make nothing a thing and do nothing (ooh)
Live the impossible dream and choose loving (ooh-ooh
These wins ain't proving a thing, we stop counting (ooh-ooh
L's be the reason we learn to move mountains (ooh-ooh
We can't go back
Wasn't tryna go
Nobody showed me how I had to learn this shit alone
We can't go back
Wasn't tryna go
Nobody showed me how I had to learn this shit alone
I look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine (oh-oh)
I'm just fine
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine (oh-oh)
I'm just fine
You said I wasn't there (oh-oh, oh)
I was stuck here
Anytime I went there all I saw of fear (oh-oh, oh)
Was fear for the future (oh-oh, oh)
Fear for the present
Fear for whatever brought us here to begin with (oh-oh, oh)
But here was a gift I was given to contend with (oh-oh, oh)
There was a place I could never be myself in (oh-oh, oh)
Last thing I wanted to do was abandon you (oh-oh, oh)
In a place so barren (oh-oh, oh)
We laugh to the joy I remember when I picture us together (oh-oh, oh)
Damn we were young (oh-oh, oh)
Thought we'd be forever but forever had a gun (oh-oh, oh)
Somebody shot ever, now forever on the run (oh-oh, oh)
Everywhere at once
We can make nothing a thing and do nothing (oh-oh, oh)
Live the impossible dream and choose loving (oh-oh, oh)
These wins ain't proving a thing (oh-oh, oh)
We stop counting
L's be the reason we learn to move mountains (oh-oh, oh) (you said)
We can't go back
Wasn't tryna go
Nobody showed me how I had to learn this shit alone (but you said)
We can't go back
Wasn't tryna go
Nobody showed me how I had to learn this shit alone
I look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
Look East, when I wake up (West, when I rest)
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine (oh-oh, oh)
I'm just fine
I know it's gonna rain sometime
But other days bring sunshine
And I'm just fine
I'm just fine
Oh, ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh