Remember that you doubted me, and when you doubt a god they lose their strength. I refuse to be weak, so I gave up everything to restore your faith in me because whether you believe it or not I never learned to live for myself always for the sake of others. My message was unheard, my voice was non existent, my words were wasted. I followed.
Give everything that you have to become the legends I would have been.
What’s 20 to life to a nigga who ain’t counting, I feel my knees buckling from the weight of the bounty, somehow I made the watch list in every county, it’s the color of my skin telling common tales about me, I’m bound to beat the odds so fakes can’t even be around me, this is how they found me, enlightened with a passion for words they tried to drown me bury me inside a system built to corral me, astounding, they tell that my cocoa colored skin is the closest thing to sin why pretend that the hate you spewing isn’t ignorant I’m gone rant cause I don’t want to be a fucking ant working like a slave, no pun intended, I promise I didn’t mean to step up out my place. but why the fuck I got one, treat me like I’m not one if I’m the top one lyrically I’m awesome intelligently tearing down the system that’s been impressively pressing down on all of me
I outta be standing in a box walled in brick walls labeled poverty but that’s not me the king of kings the one incepting martins dreams I been done did this ripped this shit impact gone be significant like how this fool so intricate his mind is like a maze and shit this pace and shit its crazy shit tune into this I burned some bridges just to live this life I don’t regret it yet best of the best they never should have second guessed
label me a kid cause i’m full of tricks man I never been a dog Ion fuck with bitches I call it like I see it cause I have a vision man I passed the mission back when ash went missing not an average gent so guess I’m mean as shit and I mean that shit that’s feline shit I flatline niggas cause the b don’t fit
meticulous with rhythm I’m killin with the venom spittin on bitches who wish they could get in a lane of talent stupendous as the kid is he killing it buildin it ripping up the game so he can replenish it take it and whip the shit put some careers to end body a beat to see who can compete with it still hasn’t seen it yet
Yall don’t really wanna play these games
Thought I wasn’t here to stay
Been a legend since the day I was made
I outta be standing in a box walled in brick walls labeled poverty but that’s not me the king of kings the one incepting martins dreams I been done did this ripped this shit impact gone be significant like how this fool so intricate his mind is like a maze and shit this pace and shit its crazy shit tune into this I burned some bridges just to live this life I don’t regret it yet best of the best they never should have second guessed
I refuse to be the tragic character in my own play you’d take from me after I gave you everything you got to date but wait the possibility to reconcile with me and vibe with me maybe apologize with me is dwindling and getting weak after I let you keep yo teeth when you should’ve been playing 32 pickup in the street
I never let you see defeat and I made sure that you could eat even the groupies that you had you owe all that shit to me
And I was positive that we could come up in this game together man you fucked me over then you had the nerves to say I better, better what? Try to keep you from being a Fucking idiot building a reputation off of shit that you never did and pretending to be a victim taking advantage of every single thing that you’ve been given and treating the world like they owe you forgiveness kidd you trippin you gotta start seeing shit different
I mean guess that I offended the godsThe way I struggle just to break even and beat all the odds
Superstitions really stitching together inclimate weather causing lapses in my mental spaces taking me to darker places filled with even darker faces facing the reality of the situation at hand; nobody owes you shit til you’ve got it hand in case you don’t understand I met this scammer so well-mannered managed to fall for a scandal scandalous how it was handled I deserved better than an obituary a shitty poem and a basic letter I came from your seed man you really couldn’t do no better?
I guess you couldn’t help it then but what about the time before did you even fight when mama walked up out the door you didn’t even try to call when I couldn’t see you no more and now I’m jealous of my sisters cause I was your son before now I’m getting calls from family I’ve never known or got to see trying to make up for all the time that you’d forgotten me possibly trying to use me for a ticket to easy street after you done defeated me all those years you weren’t feeding me might as well not exist to me but papa please know that I still love you in a special place when I was 10 found out you passed I could hardly breath that day I didn’t want to be that way, I couldn’t bear to see your face so I grabbed your obituary and stowed it away while I was coming of age up in the hood outlook on life was never good tried to end it all several times but I fought cause I could
That’s what you taught me that’s all you taught me all I wanted was to be treated like your other offspring. You made me a stereotype and now every time that I write this angers boiling inside and no one pays it no mind but I’m barely even alright. But that’s alright… cause I can fight i can overcome the misery of this unwanted life
I just feel so delusional, spending my whole life hoping one day I could do enough to make you smile from up above maybe I didn’t love hard enough, Prayers didn’t go far enough, understanding the underhanded way you abandoned me I guess family matters but what matters to family everybody wanna profit a gift given to me pay this bill, we need meals, big brother what you get for me, I finally see why evil seeds grow money trees. All this cause you left me, I left but you ain’t help me so much of it unhealthy my brain will not recover from the shreds that i was left with, feeling helpless skitzophrenic with no faith to tell them
and maybe I wouldn’t have told you
but I’d be more comfortable if at least I knew
I guess the moral of the story is regardless of your choices I reached the top and finally taught myself to block out all the voices or channel it into noises that can guide some little boys who never had a daddy simple potion but it’s poison it’s too easy to succumb to the weight of the world when you feel like an orphan order is restoring to the hearts of all the broken I really wish you hadn’t left me so open
My life ain’t always been so goodthat’s why I , fought my way up out the hood
my path was never paved with gold
that’s why I can’t let this music take my soul
humbling how I hop on the track and never fumble stumbling for the weak I let these stagnant niggas bumble tumble over like a weed and watch a brittle man crumble faced with the pressure I’m underneath a rock let’s say the world’s in my hands that’s your entire reality in the palm of a man bet I could ban together alterations of reality basically cause a schism slight division in these lies that you been living nothing good is ever gonna come from proving you can pull a trigger less you figure having less is being richer what an abstract picture tilt your head and stick to stigma limit your worth to being always just remembered that’s what I figured
My life ain’t always been so good
that’s why I , fought my way up out the hood
my path was never paved with gold
that’s why I can’t let this music take my soul
Man I never thought I’d day this but
It feels natural stepping into the studio booths and the concerts too just to think man all these fans here for you when you used to go unnoticed like a snail at the zoo
It’s imperative isn’t it to see This whole world that I built identical to genesis limitless endless no need to begin again get this Ima be the kingpin the drug is my ink pen
let the punch line sink in
Keep my flow steady like a surgeon cause if I slip up it’s the end man of all the reasons that I want to be the best number one is to leave my imprint in this industry make competition steadily look up to me like Travi G you been the king you did the thing I respect your versatility the work you did it mended me mentally brought me synergy energy so intense I mean the shit you did inspired me while I was sitting idly imagining where I could be in 20 plus a fantasy man You the man to me
I want to be more than just the man to beat, I wanna be the reason they refuse to sleep cause they focused on becoming a prodigy I’m proud to be the leader of the silent rise from poverty by all my peeps that watched me rise above the streets a birds eye view on village creek i had to plant a fruitful seed so my brothers never need a thing that they can’t get from me
Cause all my life
I’ve waited for this moment
And now it’s time
Ive gotta keep my focus
I gotta find myself
Before I lose myself
Don’t wanna play pretend
That just don’t help
I wanna make a way
never lose my way
Turn my life around
Make up for my mistakes
And everybody wanna tell me now that people just don’’t change
So while this whole world spins around we all just stand in place
What’s the point of even living life if it’s always the same
If one more person tries to hold me back I’m gonna go insane
I gotta find myself
Before I lose myself
Don’t wanna play pretend
That just don’t help
I wanna make a way
never lose my way
Turn my life around
Make up for my mistakes
While all these people whisper in my ear you’ll always be this way
Never falling for those traps I hear misery loves to play
But I don’t play around with simpletons always searching for benefits always trying to reminisce on shit we never did it’s rich the richer you get
so this is what love isthis is what love… 2x
So this is what we fighting for we stuck in this unholy war the peace is resting easy you’ll do anything to please me just to throw it in my face and swear that I don’t ever do shit who dis falling for a trap when I always knew that it was foolish fool me uno no the consequence is you don’t fool me no mo you sheepish roaming solo but know I’m the only shepherd keeping your ego afloat so don’t be dumb and rock the boat I swear this one deserves a quote oh
Why do we fall so fast and so hard
Just to add another column to our list of disappoints
Broken promises and missed appointments
Shouldn’t I avoid this
But this is what love is
this is what love… 2x
So this is how it feels to let someone know that you do “I do” seems a little less scary everytime I’m next to you but every time I’m next to you it’s like another bullet wound pop a pistol pull a trigger let my guard down way too soon pops was a philosopher the way he spun a phrase he said these hoes will tear your heart out if you let em run that game you the same but don’t you hate the player hate the way you made him when you played him – keeping cadence – you said take it slow but started racing man it’s crazy the crazy way you make me juxtaposed dichotomy differential duality but it feels like you part of me pardon me sir you startled me gorgeous as you could ever be heavenly I really could’ve seen it then if I had just noticed that wedding ring of all the things I seen even you in my dreams
But this is what it’s like
The way you feel inside
conflicts between the id and the ego begin to rise
when love is the road block but also the ride
So this is what love is
this is what love… 2
And this is how reality creates civilian casualties casually shattering hearts without a pulse a shell of me said I’d be able to move on but that just further cemented me something just isn’t registered mentally meant to be meant to we we was always meant for each meant to be meant to we we was always meant for each
so this is what love is
this is what love…2x
Everytime I see my mama all she wanna do is talk about the way I could have been if I had just put down my penput down my pen?
I can’t just quit
And so I tell her everyday
This shit I do is not for play.
I been saying since 7th grade
I’ma be the one to make it
I dont’t care what you saying
Mama I’ma be a star
I want the fancy clothes and the fancy cars
Ima be a star
I want my name in lights above the boulevard
Ima be star
I want to sit among the legendary and just be labeled a king
Ima be a star
I know the path is rough and kinda scary but fear ain’t done much for me
So Ima be a star.•o
Ima be a star
And every time I think about
The times I had to live without
What struggling is all about I swore I’d have no parts in it
It just don’t fit
The life I picked
And so I’m pushing everyday
The bottom of the barrel scraped
Relationships I worked and Slaved for
The price I paid for
Just so I could be a star
I want the fancy clothes and the fancy cars
Ima be a star
I want my name in lights above the boulevard
Ima be star
I want to sit among the legendary and just be labeled a king
Ima be a star
I know the path is rough and kinda scary but fear ain’t done much for me
So Ima be a star.•o
Ima be-_
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Written Works of Travis E. Green 