Through the Flames

[Refrain: Co$$]

See my thoughts be so deranged, hey

Weed lighter, feet on fire

I be walkin' through the flame

Got me runnin' from my pain

More than a hundred miles a second

Tryna make that great escape

But some things no matter what, they never change

While lookin' in the mirror I feel his shame

Don’t recognize my face, who I became

I be walkin' through the fire

He told you life was easy

He’s a liar, he’s a devil, he’s a saint

No longer in my sleep and I’m awake

[Verse 1:Co$$]

It go 1-9, 8-4, 80 baby, April

Gates opened up to let a tainted saint become the mold

For a iller emcee, need to feel the empty

Been walkin' these streets where the peeps ain’t friendly

Spent g’s to buy my freedom a million years been lost on earth

They never err, but now my words is touchin' like a zillion ears

I used to get high in high school

Sniffin' coke, even thoughts of doin' H

Smokin' water, lost my dad, that’s the point I lost my way

Cross my path, bluest flag

Cheerleading for heathens, but the blue is sad

Greyest sky, hovered above my faithless life

It’s my choice to make this life

The greatest life or forsake my life

But sometimes it’s so hard

Just to say goodbye to habits

You know my obsession with affection and

My addiction to friction and the static

Happy never had it, had it hard

Drivin' demons not Ms. Daisy through the fog

Be the ones that drove me crazy, but made me Co$$

[Refrain]

[Verse 2:Blu]

And I be doin' the same thing

Rollin' a leaf up, prayin' up to the same Jane

Like Mary Mary could you carry me a couple steps beyond this bliss

I’ve been involved since the same days of, Kane

Like we was meant to be gods

You think this history’s for?

Rewrite that history ours, it makes no sense to me

They saying that we meant to be stars

I’m a sun cause I shine like one, bangin' that crown like one

Grim grin lent cents off that chinny chin chin

Then again I shouldn’t have to pen a gem

Blend it in, sittin' slim, with them pockets sittin' fat, wishin' that

Manifest metaphysics, you give it and give it back

Simple stats, add it up

Count blessings, stack a buck

Facts of life, almost had me flaggin' life and givin' up

Boy Smoke said “You shittin'. You kiddin' me bruh?”

My boy B said “You really must be kiddin' me bruh”

The same folks that, I would give a kid-a-ney (kidney) for

Climb a tree and find a dream, acknowledge life supreme, bruh

[Verse 3:Co$$]

And knowledge, I’m supreme being

Lower self-esteem, dreamless

When awake I can’t recall the scenes

I’m blinded by the green

Defined it by the theme

Schemes written in the scriptures almost ripped me at the seams

Seems I’ll never leave this place, I used to say

Until I left, I used to swear I’ll never fall again

Until I leapt from highest heights

And I teach my seed that he can fly as high

And be the king and make reality his dream

When I used to never think

And now I contemplate, I used to close my eyes

And now I never blink I said I didn’t believe in God

And now I count on faith to counter pain

Countin' blessings, heaven’s with me through the flame

I said I didn’t believe in God

And now I count on faith to counter pain

Countin' blessings, heaven’s with me through the flame

And even though

[Refrain]