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Running Down

from A4E by Nicklaus Gray

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lyrics

One time for the movement, from the base to the center line
You know that pride makes your skill more incentivized
No excuse if you ain't energized
I'm in sync with this ink, I've arrived because my pen alive
If Geppetto couldn't pen a lie, then I'm him cooking life from nothing and I still don't get penalized
My discipline's from these penal eyes
Never sold coke but got to white money like it's gentrified
Don't get wise bro it's just a line
The best ever bet it's gonna be me, like I'm justified
Put yo hands up in the air if they ain't in the sky
I'll live forever through these rhymes, I ain't finna die

The flight

Coming round

On the way

Running down
Running down

Two times for the new verse
Working overtime I've learned the top brass should be usurped
I've worked with kids that are doomers
Tryna teach em that the sky ain't the limit if you do work
See to win you gotta lose first
I dun turned L's into lessons like Nick Jr
So young me would be astounded
Cause now i'm paid to rock shows like Medusa had viewed ya
Views from the future, a faint smell of ozone
Designer clothes with too many logos
Living through the photo, generalized madness
Two steps forwards and three steps backwards
Fighting for inclusion, don't let you own your masters though
No busters
Still suffer
But we buffer
For new ways away from complacency
Switch the scene, context and erase the beat wait

Ohhh wait a minute nigga did you do a beat flip
Oh you kinda going crazy

Yeah
Our young protagonist finds himself in the action
The aftermath of the masses retaining attention actually asking the question
What does it matter if music's atrophied
If I can dance to it and put some content in packaging
Suppose nothing in capitalistic majesty
Rich get wealthy, the poor make a fool of themselves for money
Percentage shortened for profit, monopolize what they want
And bet all of a sudden being the jester just isn't funny
I'm catching a vibe, it's not algorithmically sound
I just be making for me in hopes that my people are found
Peep, it's a legion around
Unconnected to lan, I hope that your funeral's full
100K on the Gram
Life is just grains of a sand
Sifted through goddess' hand
You caught me thinking aloud
This an elaborate front
The manor's façade to the north
And windows are facing the sun
I'm basically saying you shine
When you just live how you want

That's within reason
Wha-what wha-what
Don't be an asshole
Yu-yup Yu-yup
That's within reason
Wha-what what-what
If you take it literally, you dumb, you dumb
Ha

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from A4E, released October 10, 2023

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