[ Featuring Justly2Poetic ]
Papa left me, skipped out on saying how to be the best me
In the beginning, I had two left feet
Trying to
Follow the right
But I kept tripping on this path I write
Taking any insight
From all the black knights
Who looked just like me
I replicated your baggie jeans
And that big ass white tee
I couldn't quite see
That this life wasn't going to be a quick fitting
I wanted to be a man but who was I kidding
Papa left me, as a young bull
The cowboy in me wasn't giant enough to see
What only some could
Growing up in my hood
Some fools would just throw it all away
Reason: our eagle eye was on delay
We blew the plays and just listened to the pain
The screams were so loud, all we could do is listen to them and pray
Am I only one that can see blood in our lake
Am I only one that can see our Washingtons have red skins
I mean blood on their face
I guess papa left me something to chase
Left me Running a race
That I've already fell last place in
My placement has been placed in a station
Where I'm stationed to fight more racists
Thoughts;
I found myself dead to the world but you helped make this corpse
My JanSport wasn't filled with books, just product
I had to figure out how to make it cost
I mean make it count
But Now I can't make it out
Of my own dungeon
Laid out
Chained to my own pain
And falling to that ole substance
What papa taught me
Was the pain of being left alone
Stomach left to groan
Ribs touching, so when mama rest
I roam
Stumbling, over every hole I see
Pushing Myself to go after the nickel and dime schemes
As time seems to slip away
3 years down the drain
You'll transfer in between counting
States
In that sheriff county place
I realize that
Papa left this dome empty
With plenty demons to creep in
Trying to claw its way into my cerebrum
When papa left me it's was treason
But I won't have you killed
Papa, you left me dangling off the deep in
My papa left me when I was sleeping
Papa you left me
