[Verse 1]
You seem well, head pressure is okay
And I won’t let you call off, so let’s get into the stakes
Sleep’s everything you want, next second you’re awake
Get stepping on your way, the next question of the day
You gotta lotta guests still in your receiving room
And old emergencies are bleeding through
Only luck keeps you alive in shit you’re weaving through
What the fuck’s a writer who can’t even mind the ps and qs?
I know that you’re not itching for an ending, Achilles
But the chariot is nipping at your tendons, you feel me?
You still haven’t figured out that life is a dance and
You’re a frozen wallflower with his mind in a trance
Time’s cruel, you’re submitting to its final demands
“That’s guy’s cool but he’s got way too much time on his hands.”
Lifeline on a can, string tied to a bumper
If provided a chance you’d grind in advance and slumber
Every other song’s about your latest regret
Or something else you’ll see before you take your place with the dead
Never change for the better, you better fake it instead
The shit is bountiful because you’re gonna pay with your head
You only get twenty-four, work can eat ten of ‘em
Sleep takes five more, terms seem pessimal
Don’t get a complaint about the hurt scream decibels
How long ‘til you’re famous with your 13 Nebulas?

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Do whatever shit you have to do to overtake
If you want to be the best you gotta move to motivate
Take an hour or a life, it’s not difficult to see you
Stealing energy, shit is just a difference of degree, Muad’Dib
Get depressed once you threw the goal away
If you want to be the best you gotta move to motivate
Lose a load of days cruising on the road of age
Students of the overrated soon to be the overplayed

Now you got some shit finished in the minutes you allot
And you been getting kinda calm, here’s some shit that you forgot
Not sniffing for job, still got chapters to write
Now your rent is overdue, gotta back up your drives
And your car needs a grand now for fixing the suspension
And still you’re spans out from a visit to the dentist
You head out but forgot your keys, you’re locked out
And you sit, not now is your wish, clock shouts in the mist

[Verse 2]
Remember your obligations and remember advice and
Remember the right words and all the actions to try and
Remember the whole course of the path of your life and
Remember the long weekends? Now that shit was nice
Think back in your prime when you could laugh at your pride
And never slacken your spine, you’re never crafting the rhymes
Amid the trash you would type, you never backed up a file
And so it crashed and it fried and now there’s ash in a pile
Remember to hold your face up in the mask of a smile
And never let a person know about the spats in your mind
And remember to drive perfect or your passengers die
And oh, dear, what was that twitch up in the back of your eye?
Is that shit your optic nerve or just the lid muscles?
You know you’re always on the verge of busting this puzzle
You know you need a proper dirge for all your big struggles
Still you only mockin all your work and get your shit ruffled

Forgetting the purpose yet you bettin it’s worth it
Your head can hurt worse, just keep on messing in second person
You need an opportunity to pluck at the seams,
To let concatenation suffer and then fuck up your dreams
Levity worked, changed your mind when
Forced to fit heaven and earth in space provided
And then, notwithstanding the verse, you’d ace the writing
So hey, what’s an earlier grave to a late assignment? Mindless

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