(-Dec. 1/2 -97.)

-Lets, Take it back, to 97'.
-Back, when both my parents were alive, 
& I was sent from heaven.

-Day 1; I was dropped right on my fucking melon. 
-Week 2;  -Guess it wasn't bad, I was progressing. 
-By Month 3; as a baby started having questions. 
-By year 4; knew that dads in prison as a felon.

-Using weapons, disrespecting, all authority, positions. 
-I'm the sperm, that's filled with Venom. 
(-I need fans, so someone listen.)

-I'm spitting message, I learn a lesson, 
-Taught & told.
that I would test it. 

-If I studied, I could pass it 
(& I did, so here’s a classic.)
-This isn’t tragic, 
It is my passion.
-I’ve got the fashion.
(-The same one the kids 
use to hate, Damnit)
-Or was it jealousy? 
-Your temper just entered,
to make you mad @ me.
(-Well, What a catastrophe.)

-Im thinkin' this is blasphemy.
-They, never shared fidelity /
-But, soon 2 be, up under me.
Just, Asking for some other things¿
“-Y’all scare me.”


-Sometimes,
I hide inside the darkest places.
-Somewhere deep inside the basement.
[But, I’m focused on the rearranging.]
-Of the houses, picture framing. 
-This right here's the demonstration.
‘-Perfect, with the Cadence.’
x2

-Hardest lessons learned; 
Is what I'm facing.
(-But this musics like a present, 
just to look back on the seconds, that I missed with those connected.)
(In the past or in the present.)
-& I feel it's like a blessing.
x2

“-Stand 4 something, 
in your life / 
or you will die for none.” 
[-KBS 2K15.]

“-I was taught that from a man,
Who liked to carry guns.”
-& with what I’ve done.
(-& what I’ll become.)
-That man, will be proud.
(-Cause, I am his SON.) 

& what’s funny, is I now; 
just come to think of it. 
-His world evolved arond me, 
(-Coincidence.¿)

-I do think not.
(-I’m also on pot.)
-Plus, 
Piano riffs, 
have got me feeling-off notch.
-Back to the story, 
of this homie,
-That I’m knowing. 
(-Met him in the mirror, 
but, I see him every morning.)

-I’ll tell that 5’9 kid.
-Work hard, throw fists, break jaws, be pimp, fuck bitches, don’t eat shrimp, & make it home before 6. A.M.
-But, I, A, M,  / A.O.K. 

-Cause the end of yesterday; 
Seemed, to come & swoop the pain away. 
-As if it was; just a rainy day/
& now it’s just a sunny shade, of blues up in the sky, like a jazz parade.

(See, what I did there?)
-Of corse not.

-Well hey.
[X3]

-Since, I’m also here to introduce myself,
I guess I must’ve, said im clearly on the noose itself.
(-Cause, I just feel a certain breeze, creeping up, from up, under me, 
that says that they need, someone with some diamond teeth.)

-I’ve only got TWO.
-Headed straight 4 law school.
(-Cause, I’m smarter than the average.
& as vivid as a cartoon.)

(The whole Package)
-Just saying.

(-I wish I could take it back.)
& change nothing, 
(But, the game that y’all have titled rap)

& give it back, 
just to someone that, 
-Appreciates the shit, 
for what it’s worth, my man.
(-These is just, strict, facts, 
kicking it back,
loyal bikes, 2,
kick-stands.)

-I leave an ambiance; 
I’m on the megaphone.

(-Id really like it, if you picked up your phone, soon..)

....

-Life’s the great; ‘Exception.’
And deaths the real; ‘Exemption..’

(Or, maybe I just got it twisted,
let me think a second.)

-If Deaths the real, ‘extraction’
Then life's the real ‘reaction’...

-And yet they both still;
‘Unexpected.’

-It’s a trip & I’m reflected,
(-But, I’m tripping on some shit,
that makes me feel collected.)

-I’m coming quick to catch my dialect, 
“-The moral of the story; is I’m here, because, I learn from it.”

-These Mistakes, that I shall commit.
Are Not, ‘for the hell’ & ‘for the sake’ of it.
but, because, I’m human, 
learn to deal with it.

-I’m not perfect / just perfecting it.
(-I’m known to over think, 
So here’s a shovel if your into it.)

-You Get it¿
-You dig it.
-It’s the same; if we aren’t, 
cause I ain’t. if you are, 
then I 'aim', cause we can.
-When, I caint.
*Bang,
*Bang...

-I had said, ‘aim’.. 
-So, I ended it with
Bang, Bang..

-Dec. -1/2. -97. [J-Cole: Sideline Story Remix]

Silo-F.faine