Part of Me

[Chorus: Phoelix]

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave

[Verse 1: Noname]

Riddle me this, Mona Lisa pizza pepperoni

Smilin' over phony speakers, gettin' a fit

Often of the shits, it's a party at my granny house

Now birthdays and funerals will only bring the family out

Riddle me new, politician do a dance for me

Hot potato, milly rock, devastation of kiddy bop

Idiot, itty bitty resentfulness

Riddle me gone, Chicago go go bye

Chicago Eastroom savage

Ashes for backstage passes, ashes to house on Ashland

Chicago go go cozy, move to LA county

Riddle my old life dead, riddle my new life dead

Riddle me, Lord, forgive me

[Chorus: Phoelix]

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave

[Verse 2: Benjamin Earl Turner]

Shaking the dust off my heel as I get infected

Weekend trips to my aunties was an antiseptic

The fat boy anorexic ain't admit 'cause my complexion

Wrist like an Etch-a-Sketch, I'm sculptin' the pain in 'em like Edmonia Lewis

My notebooks less Jesus, more gospel to it

Let's holler and hoop and my niggas is stupid, my niggas is shootin'

Your interpretation of that last bar will tell me where you was rooted

Me and mines amongst the poplar still

I'm talkin' moonshine, night walkin', underground, high stakin'

Cop'll put the choppa on ya, make the pupils dilate

Oh what a drug is fear, oh what a love is close

Oh at the crib with the Coupe DeVille with the overdose

That made jealousy dance on the crowd

I been everywhere, everywhere let me down

Worn every hat, every hat with a crown

Now every head bowed, dear God

[Chorus: Phoelix]

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave

I have to focus on the part of me that I'm trying to be

I can't pretend I'm not myself

But if you go, wipe your shoes 'fore you leave