Death Around The Corner 2 (Fade To Black)

[Intro: Alex Marie Brinkley + (Byron Henderson)]
(It might not be ok)
I’m running out of lives
Can’t get this out my mind
Hold on
Hold on

Oh-o-o-o-o (Left side, left side, hey)
Oh-o-o-o-o (Right side)
Hold on (White flag)
(I’m waving a white flag)
Hold on

[Pre-Verse]
I’m fed up...
Try Jesus, don’t try me
Try Jesus, don’t try me
Try Jesus, don’t try me
I’ve got some work to do

[Verse 1]
They say that God won’t ever give you more than you can handle
So what are we calling this?
Hope was never my strong suit, so you’ll have to pardon me
Cops murking my people and things that used to startle me no longer do
What’s the use in giving a stranger all of me?
With all this drug abuse, can’t allow myself to indulge in it
Hurdle over a puddle and you’re liable to fall in it
I see you like to follow trends
But what you do today determines whether you see tomorrow end
If I could just be honest
Matt was trying to get it right, but things went left
Hasbro better explain this game of life, cause dawg, I’ve been stressed
Bench pressing anxiety, my nails ain’t looked the same since
Sleeping my life away, insominatic in the same sense
I hate this

[Hook]
I see death around the corner waiting on us just to slip
Dog, I’ve just got to warn you, I’ve been wandering for years
When I tell you let me go, then let me go without the guilt
When I tell you let me go, then let me go because I lived x2

[Verse 2]
Ain’t no life without hardships, but I’m forever falling
Knowing the door you invite your friends through is likely revolving
Tread softly
Because God forbid today’s the day they chalk me
What a life
Your friends could one day put a knife right where your heart be
My advice, proceed with caution
I don’t even say my city, y’all done lost it
300 shootings in May, last year that happened in August
Beef ain’t even beef, it goes through Snaps
These newer rappers, all I see is a bunch of Goku Blacks
Dudes say a whole lot of nothing over banging production
While Geppetto strings you along to the beat of drums like a puppet, it’s nothing
You’re telling me got to know when to let it be
When my mind’s racing, I embrace my demons
I ain’t buying what you’re selling me
Ties severed, pride never, let it breathe
If you hear this thinking I’m alive, that’s the death in me
Split decisions, lives taken with precision
Strive, Hunter Hearst, know your pedigree
Demise waiting, F this image
By now, you ought to know that life is more than ice
Reciting poems from my past easily like I don’t write
Truly, how many times can I be reinvented?
People hear my music and wonder why I sound so human
I just tell them that my ego’s missing
Plenty conversations with the Devil in the past while trying to send me on a feeble mission
Though I walk alone, I ain’t perfect
Used to keep a couple demons hidden, turned anxiety into a burden
That’s the reason I’d need to bump the Gonzalez twins just to calm my nerves
When I’m this deep in thought is when everything becomes a blur
As a kid, I heard the words, “The only option for the opposition
Get down and stay down, less you would rather pop up missing.”
I’m empty

[Hook]
I see death around the corner waiting on us just to slip
Dog, I’ve just got to warn you, I’ve been wandering for years
When I tell you let me go, then let me go without the guilt
When I tell you let me go, then let me go because I lived

I see death around the corner waiting on us just to slip
Dog, I’ve just got to warn you, I’ve been wandering for years
When I tell you let me go, then let me go without the guilt
When I tell you let me go, then let me go because I lived
Nah, y’all can keep y’all guns