Hourglass

I wrote this while feeling hopeless
So if you tell me I can’t rap, then my reply is “you don’t know shit”
Cause I been rapping since 06, since I was wearing baggy jeans
And I was tryna wear my brother old kicks
But now I’m focused, so when you see blossom like a lotus
I came out of my shell on that poached shit
I been through hell and back , my life’s a rollercoaster
So I when I talk to God then I start to feel closer
But it’s been a minute, and Lord knows I ain’t finished sinning
And I done fuck over pretty women
I struggle on the inside but I’m dealing with it
Every time I let the pen slide I get in my feelings
Niggas asked me why I rap hard, cause I’m slept on
Spitting dope shit, this that raw that can’t get stepped on
I ain’t reached my peak, I ain’t even wrote my best song
Widows peak, I’m coming for they head can’t put no vest on
Player turned coach, you can call me Byron Leftwich
Flows out the roof, and this shit that you can’t mess with
Y’all know I’m the truth, ain’t no need to second guess it
But lack of validation from the world can make you question
So fuck it, I keep going raw like I don’t need protection
I walked through the hood and I ain’t even need a weapon
Cause God got my back and ain’t no need to be stressing
I wanna ball man so I gotta keep pressing, now I’m heat checking
Heat seeking, people wonder what he thinking
The early bird get the worm, so y’all can keep sleeping
It’s my turn, I had to learn, I had to keep beating
Devils off my back, type of shit that make you keep cheating
I elevated with my flow, so I can keep peaking
Yo this beat so fucking cold I could keep speaking
All day, kill the game in all ways
Then I could coach my life and I could call all plays
I ain’t tryna work a normal job to get a small wage
Just to get mad when I get small raise
I been trapped in that cycle, let me out this small cage
But when I think about it, it feel like I’m on stage
And they, pulling my strings, I don’t know how to react
Like a puppet in this bitch, with a hole in my back
Got me hanging from a thread, with a whole lotta slack
Took them thoughts out my head, now it ain’t no turning back
I see my life through a hourglass, looking at these hours pass
Figments of imagination, got me thinking I could last
10 years pass, look in the mirror with yo smiling ass
Haters thought I won’t gone make it out, now where my flowers at?