Past

[Intro] The future is not your past [Verse 1] I've tried to write this rhyme a million times Or maybe I'm just killin' time I'm blinded by what I had built in my mind I'm cryin' like I spilled the milk and the wine Everything's on fire, still, I'm tryin' to pretend I'm feelin' fine And I've always been observant Curiosity tryin' to learn what's behind the curtains And I'm certain insecurity's the perfect encouragement Even brain surgeons have a limited purpose I saw the writing on the wall when it was written in cursivе Look, I can't imagine I could spell it any clearеr If I bluntly tried to tell you how we got from there to here Its atmosphere and I'm surprised that we survived another year To speak through the speakers it keeps creepin' nearer To the day I disappear to the other side of that mirror I guess my voice is all that I got to offer So you gotta make a choice to avoid your own obstacles Probably feels powerful, huh? You can poison all the water on this planet But you can't put sand in the hourglass Your future is not your past [Chorus] But your future is not your past You can try to follow the path, or you can draw your own map But your future is not your past But your future is not your past How could it all collapse if it was built to last? Your future is not your past [Verse 2] I always thought I was an ugly child I still remember the struggle of tryin' to love my smile Without a promise to my pocket, just the words I compiled And whatever else they got up in my personal file Just show me how it works while I work to make it worth my while I'm not embarrassed to admit when I considered myself A supporting character, I barely cared about the script And now my kids got me starin' at my fridge Like I better go out and produce a bag of asparagus Don't wanna be a failure as a parent again Don't nobody wanna die broke and in debt Gotta fly towards the sun, but stay close to the nest And I ain't sayin' nothin', but I hope it connects And it doesn't really matter whether or not you ever open the text No stress, just growth and progress And I imagine that I'm way far past my halfway This graveyard is like an ashtray We generate mistakes until the final escape I'm tryin' to make footprints in the sand of this hourglass Your future is not your past [Chorus] But your future is not your past We try to learn how to adapt, we want tomorrow intact Your future is not your past But your future is not your past Until I finally vanish into the vast, I wrote my own raps And my future was not my past [Outro] Your future was not my past