Manic

[Intro] Statik Selektah (Statik Selektah, Statik Selektah) Every single word [Verse 1] Staying optimistic is exhausting Ventin' feel like bitchin', like I'm whining Circle visions and I'm caught in it, often Not gon' be effect, more like the cause Know they order tall, but the measure not how low you get, but how far you can fall from They can stay lost if I lost 'em Everything I say is dual like exhaust Level headed nigga, mind swimming, all minute The limits picked up aggression, identity like thе water Speaking of it, striving to stay above it, povеrty like a mind state, still tryna recover Trying not to be plummet, thought of it, tie my stomach Leaving the way you came in, with nothing, somebody love me Want another and another, my sister and my brother The nigga that don't know me from Joe Blow, I could touch him with a song I remind 'em, they never really alone I'm going against conviction, correct me, I'm never wrong from intention You might just lack a dimension up in your soul Cuttin' my dope shit with your energy Steppin' on it and twistin' it, selling that for your benefit But control of opinion, don't want me as no enemy 'cause you gon' have to finish me Shit'll go to infinity like a fifty beef I hold a grudge like holding my Hennessy I never blacked out, running cash out, they said don't fall for that Capped out, niggas maxed out, where my ballers at? All I ever needed was some paper, nigga all facts Can't deny it, that would mean to give it all back [Pre-Chorus] Take my hand Never be alone, 'long as I'm with you Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh They say my ego crashing down [Chorus] What if I told you I know the way? But it go against everything that you know I can see you infatuated with pain You don't love it, then why you won't let it go? I know people identify with that word Don't take my advice over some, don't You might think I'm being too harsh but This what it sound like when I'm alone [Verse 2] Never needed much, but in the same breath a nigga wanted everything Be content, think abundantly You could never be lonely, never be hungry Be worthless and not deserving of some kind of peace I'm protecting mine by any means I be where the vibes at This ain't for yo' mind though, this shit for your mindset This a different dialect This ain't no get back lyrical pissing contest Even though I rhyme best, beside that Fo' past 4:40 a.m., a baby born in a poverty from the evils of infancy, needed purpose Feeling helpless, invincible, and that same same stream of conscious that I adopted kept me further from the surface Out of balance, I know we grow from challenge I know the place that ego take you to fill the valor They say the opposite of they soul, mind dying of thirst Rewind me back to 2009, I left the earth Been blinded, what could be present time to live the curse Remind me to stop watching my life play in reverse Like mine gotta be cursed, find what I deserve A lion says I deserted the shine Painted the version of me in the worst light Ironically, so it served they failure to make it seem like I'm wired, didn't work Father fuck 'em They gon' be used to be useless The side of love we blind to in the truest sense Bend the rules for the homie and they gon' play they self out of position This for the niggas that forgot to miss me Out necessity of often being self-sufficient Shit I'm the only one who need to see the vision [Chorus] What if I told you I know the way? But it go against everything that you know I can see you infatuated with pain You don't love it, then why you won't let it go? I know people identify with that word Don't take my advice over some, don't You might think I'm being too harsh but This what it sound like when I'm alone [Outro] Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh (This what it sound like when I'm alone) This what it sound like when I'm alone