I lost and I gained
To be honest, I'm exhausted and drained
This game has been costin my brain
The love has burnt out, the water's got tossed in the flames
Wish I was as calm as you
Post-traumatic stress, look at what the traumas do
Telling truth to people I shouldn't be honest to
And lying to the people I should never break my promise to
I kill the beat like I'm supposed to do
Dueling all these rappers at a Old Salon
Searching for respect cause it's overdue
I don't know when it's coming, couldn't tell you, I just hope it's soon
I'm in the city with the whole Platoon
Only getting started, heating up like it was close to June
I'm bout to pop like when you poke balloons
Applying pressure on the game like the bitch got open wounds
See when I spit it's so timeless
And I don't need your company, I got my own silence
I be getting high, look at life through stoned eyelids
I'm searching for my purpose but fuck it, I won't find it
I'm fresh to death like I got my own stylist
I'm fly even when I'm on the ground like drone pilots
Dudes are a joke, they don't smoke
They take the blunt and they pose like Will Smith, they don't light it
You took a time out, see me, I put the time in
Exactly why now I'm getting paid off this rhyming
And people doing as I say, like my name was Simon
They seeing what I'm up to and they saying, Ben, I'm in
I'm despised by the little guys taking my accomplishments
They love to belittle mine flaws getting maximized
Applause getting minimized, everyone's a critic
Till the critics getting criticized