Promised

[Intro: Wiki]

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[Verse 1: Wiki]

Judged by people that don't care about me either way

Done with pleasing people who ain't aware, when I feel that way

I just need to breathe for a second, need to pray

Try and make sense of what I made

Not the money, every sentence

You can't touch 'em, but put a bunch together, make a record

I'd say I stayed neglected in the game, but I stayed invested

At least I maintained my message

And when I changed and I realized the pain I caused, confessed it

All my flaws is on my setlist

Every bar, I was direct with

All the travel days where I missed the city

Sitting on my saddle on the Mississippi

On my trustworthy steed

Or out in Europe smoking some untrustworthy weed

The only way to stay high, how I prefer to be

On the bus, every day you wake, a new way to say hi, a different currency

It's too early for all the urgency

My brain feels like been in and out of surgery

Open up the curtains, see

Everything the world conceived, left to me

Not no unnecessaries, only necessities

The bare ones, have you cherishing your sense of Qi

Set you free, just don't take a turn down the wrong street

But what's the loss cost me, nothing too costly

As long as I end up back on Mott Street

Know I got me a spicy chicken sandwich from my akhi, that's all I need

But after all I've seen, I had to stop it

After all the years of being toxic

In every unity, I got it

Every opportunity, he lost him

But either way, community still got him

Everything you did for profit

I've hardly counted what I got yet

This just was the only way I could be honest

Uh, the only place I could keep my promise

[Verse 2: MIKE]

Woke this morning, had to pray that I could see beyond this

Show me somewhere where it's safe, that's why I need a job

A sheer product of my race, so it don't need a concept

And you remind me of my ace 'cause I just be alive

Sometimes I be obnoxious

With the money making gang, how niggas think we locked in

Why niggas think they slime?

Why niggas jump to make a name and not to leave they options?

Why niggas be behind?

I peeped them triggers be the same when niggas reek of gossip

Fast and eager type

I keep it running in the rain, know when those streets is godless

Last our leaders died

I keep my mother in my prayers and I believe she watching

Don't believe the hype

I seen my brother's in that phase and how that creature got him

See some brothers wishing, hey, I wish I'd leave they conscious

Hope they see they prize

Them assumptions just the game, I know we synchronized

I'd rather be in front the flame than be the one besides it

Some shit you leave to God

Some shit I really had to say, but I ain't mean to promise

It's hard to speak a lot

[Outro: MIKE]

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