22 - Abstract, Delaney

Just wanted to make them proud

But you can’t tell ups from downs

It’s all alright

You can find company

In hearts that beat all in sync

We’re all alright

We gon' be okay

We gon' be alright

Musta been 2:11 when the world ended

Least it felt like it at the time

Teenage years make a heart break worse

Plus a lot was going on

Couldn’t stop it at the time

Dad tried to flip the house

Funny that it all landed upside down

Known for being optimistic started feeling different

Couldn’t fix it started writing lyrics all because

Nobody tried to hear it

'Round the same time

Hooked to the nicotine

Music and a smoke were synonymous to me it seemed

Paid prices, through devices

Both sides, obsessed with a vision

I know I could make mine

I knew it would take time

I knew they would doubt shine

Thought it was just music

Didn’t know that they would take sides

Freestyle at the party

They said turn it down

Sorry, was I talking over what you’re gossiping about?

Small town with dreams that didn’t involve skis

Lookin' at me like a weirdo, outside of the scene

Stuck to my friends not fucking with fair weather

But the maple showers brought out the May weather

Didn’t know what I was doing

But I knew I couldn’t stop

Wasn’t slowing down even when my 4th tape dropped

Round the time I was drunk most my Freshman year

Was so focused on my craft that my grades got weird

Just wanted to make them proud

But you can’t tell ups from downs

It’s all alright

You can find company

In hearts that beat all in sync

We’re all alright

Thought I figured out

I just wasn’t made for degrees

Went home then I went back early '14

All my friends had new friends

And I lived off campus

In a dingy apartment on a twin bed mattress

Sucked but I kept my grades up for a bit

I would kick it with some homies every now and again

But the Laramie cold was keeping me inside

And I was smokin' on the green when I needed to write

Wasn’t able to sleep or even write without it

And being alone, made my anxiety spike

If I was hanging with the group, I was drinkin' that night

Couldn’t handle being out without a drink in my sight

Was a mess working on the science of feeling tall

If it wasn’t for that tape, I wouldn’t get up at all

Recording on a mic that was USB

Thankfully I had Craig making all of my beats

Still strugglin' tryna be heard

Still a joke back home stuck in his work

Dropped science, to dead silence

I was like, «word»

They don’t get it yet, but I swear that it’s gon' work

Went back home for the summer

Met up with a girl that I used to love

But I was all messed up at the time because

I couldn’t deal with thinking about another end to us

She brought me back to life

Back in senior year

Couple months of that

And then she disappeared

She explained to me, and it made sense to me

That I couldn’t move forward with a heart and fear

So I got distant on some bitch shit

Can’t lie, I was truly being a dipshit like oh my

Knew I would move to Seattle then

Home never let me stay too long, I guess

Just wanted to make them proud

But you can’t tell ups from downs

It’s all alright

You can find company

In hearts that beat all in sync

We’re all alright

Music wasn’t makin' money

So I headed out to AI

Arts school so I thought cool Imma be fine

Family wanted a degree, cool Imma get mine

Not sure if I made the move for me at the time

I just had to get out

I was just tired of being home

Every ounce of my future was ridin' on a microphone

That’s a lot of pressure

Even for a kid that’s sure with no measure

To measure if my music was truly meant to deliver

Fell in love with the city

Fell back in love with my art

I was truly in the present, I learned to follow my heart

Truly independent, and finally makin' my mark

A Team Worldwide was steady lightin' a spark

100K, a couple million, then 10's

Views gone crazy, I was over the fence

I was over the moon and then Neverland dropped

That right there but I’m never gonna land off

AI wasn’t really what I thought it would be

But I met a couple friends I’ve been happy to keep

Left that summer back home again

Then I started plotting out how the team would win

We decided that it was time that we all should meet

Overseas with the team for a couple of weeks

Patrick, Craig, Glenn, Gustav, and me

Set up in a cabin south of Stockholm streets

5 musicians, 4 countries, 1 album

Took 5 years to make this our outcome

Used to ask how come, now they ask how

I just believed in it way more than most thou

I just remained me and painted what I’ve seen

Painting you all the lows and highs in these dreams

All the pleasure and pain

The sun that came after rain

Now we on our way

Life will never be the…

Same

Just wanted to make them proud

But you can’t tell ups from downs

It’s all alright

You can find company (22 and I’m way more)

In hearts that beat all in sync (22 and I’m way more)

We’re all alright (22 and I’m way more wise)

22 and I’m way more wise to the fact

That the world makes plans that the mind can’t hatch

No heart makes dreams work and time can’t match

And I choose to be truth nothing rhymes like that