open waters

Still, waters run deep, pill grinder, psilocybin on the beach

Just tryna cleanse my mind of what I seen, I need a baptism

Uh, uh, yeah

Still, waters run deep, pill grinder, psilocybin on the beach

Just tryna cleanse my mind of what I seen, I need a baptism

But really, I ain't been that different

Burnt marijuana when I'm reachin' for my past feelings

Echoin' back here, and you just like the last nigga

Stompin' the gas pedal, well aware the path veerin'

I don't think failure scare me as much as my talent

While fillin' up my capillaries with laggin' molasses

My love break the back of what I wrap up in my lasso

I dip my cup into my blood, it's comin' back gold

Though they won't budge, I fell in love with my lil' shackles

Dwellin' in the shallows

Still, waters run deep, pill grinder, psilocybin on the beach

Just tryna cleanse my mind of what I seen, I need a baptism

But really, I ain't been that different

Burnt marijuana when I'm reachin' for my past feelings

Echoin' back here, and you just like the last nigga

Stompin' the gas pedal, well aware the path veerin'

I don't think failure scare me as much as my talent

While fillin' up my capillaries with laggin' molasses

My love break the back of what I wrap up in my lasso (lasso)

I dip my cup into my blood, it's comin' back gold (back gold)

Though they won't budge, I fell in love with my lil' shadows

Dwellin' in the shallows (shallows)

Sun risin' in the east, I know you guide me by my feet

Know they'll probably preach about the company I keep

If you the one to kill me but the last one left to leave

And that's just how it be, I need you

Broke and bruised, found myself in a wishing well

To clean my soul, wash my truth through a sinner's legs

Kiss goodbye and try to give myself away

But that is only half a temptation

Yeah, ayy, ye

Yeah

God forbid a nick betwixt my ribs I don't know how to fix

My house is where my bed is and my skeletons and traumas live

For my kin, I'll be a pillar for a pall to lift

I know I never call enough, I promise it was all for them

Far from home, dissolving gills before I crawled or hopped, I'd swim

Tryna find how far I get, it's nausea when I cross the limit

I just want it all to empty, I just wanna ball into the darkness

Of this smallness in me, like when we was all was children

They want that old MAVI back and I just wanted Omavi back

Stealin' glimpses through a post or through glass

Boastin', just a soul and clothes on it

How I stop from nosedivin'? I ain't have no role models, jack

Lost the most in this whole skyward act

A knowin' nod servin' as apology I owe to my dad

I be sorry too often, I argue too often, it's me

Only saw you so often 'cause I was too charmin' to leave

Flawed belief, I carve relief in stone

When it's gone from me, then it won't be as lonely

Washin' in the sea, I'm only leavin' bones

All that I've received, I dig a deeper hole

Creating art out of suffering is a haunting, if not a futile endeavor

Deep down, we must know we can't be saved by colors on a canvas or words on a page

We must know we are chasing a sun that will never set, yet we are unable to stop

We write and we sing and we draw

And every momentary reprieve from the gaping maw of despair we attribute to our creativity

The truth is art can't save the world

Art can only make the world look at itself

With that being said, let's talk about MAVI