Lose Sleep
Remi;Jordan Rakei
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Yes, yes, get it, shade, shade, ha, come on
Yeah, yeah, some more, come on
I'm just here to push limits
Shit scared of heights, but I stay on
Top of the game just to say I did it
Show young black kids that you can live it
Free your mind with it, be proud of your pigment
I wasn't for a while
Too many times, vilified for being a shade different
Started hating myself and all dark skin
Playing myself, Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
Remember after school, train station
Busta "Break Ya Neck" blasting
From iPod Mini, thankful class finished
So I could go and play Majora's Mask with my little brother
When cops come up and start asking me
"Where you from? What you up to? Uh
From Orabens? Half an hour from here
Not from round here, boy
What you selling? Where's the product?"
I hadn't even touched drugs at this point, except maybe a joint
But my skin fitted descriptions, so oink-oink had to be deployed
Next day at school, told my friends
The facts of how they treated the boy
They said I'm being crazy 'cause to them, black voice is white noise
It's the world that we're living in, huh
We seem to forget
The dark days of history, yeah, uh
Time will manifest
The endless possibility, yeah, uh
Open your eyes to see
The world is darker than it seems
So dream it on (Dream it on)
Enough with the crazy, crazy talk
Yeah, yeah
Dave Chappelle taught me the worst thing to call someone is crazy
Dismissing all the pain that plagues them
In one word just to avoid confrontation
With yourself, we prefer to sit on a Chesterfield lounge
While microwaving a meal by McCain and
Watching Australian Idol contestant failing
While the house that we're in is in flames
All because it's a routine (I know about that, man)
So when they say, "Too deep"
I say, "Product of reality, you're too deep"
'Cause I'm just using eyes, ears and new spheres to get up to speed
Shit, only those that don't read between the lines abuse these
Therefore I don't lose sleep
'Cause I'm well aware that's the world that we're living in, huh
We seem to forget
The dark days of history, yeah, uh
Time will manifest (Time will manifest)
The endless possibility, yeah, uh (The endless possibility)
Open your eyes to see
The world is darker than it seems
So dream it on (Dream it on)
Enough with the crazy, crazy talk
Open your eyes, open your eyes
Open your eyes, open your eyes