Outcast - Cognito

When I think about the past of my life, and all that I did on my own

My own, all the years that I was struggling day and night on the block was my

own

To me I’m an outcast

It’s been a long time coming, I’m still here I’m still breathing

I’ve spent a long time running through each season to season

I’m your prime example if you can’t do it, so give it up

I’m your prime example cause I’ve been through it so listen up

It was deeper than just doing music and drug abusing

It’s about your life and how you use it, the road you chose it

Determines your every step and movement, lord knows I tried, knows I’m defied

It’s hard to run a race that I know I’m behind in, know that I’m grinding

Look at life through my eyes, it ain’t as easy as it looks

Nobody knows the blood and tears that it took

Here’s an expected turn of aggression, that turned to obsession

Turned to depression, through all that you think I learned all my lessons

I ain’t even scratching the surface, I ain’t even half way

It ain’t even about the bitches, or the money I’ve made

In fifty years when I look back on my past

All that I want is for my daughters to be proud of their dad

What else do I have

When I think about the past of my life, and all that I did on my own

My own, all the years that I was struggling day and night on the block was my

own

All that I wanted was a chance to be accepted like you, so tell me if I’m wrong

I just want to do it before it’s over and life’s gone

Tell me you feel, but I never thought I would really be the man

To grow up from nothing to the one sitting before me, see I’m an outcast

Now momma always said it would be worth it, through all the pain and suffering

Through all the rain and hurting, nobody’s perfect

I’m certain that if I left this earth, today they would miss me

But at my funeral how long would the list be before I’m history

An only child with no brothers or sisters, so often me and momma would pack up

The Dots and moving often is exhausting, back and forth in them section 8

apartments

There’s only so much you can take, before it breaks your conscience and changes

to nonsense

Now there’s been times in life where I feel flawless, I’d have to say those

Were the times where my ears would hear whispers, from other angels

Taking actions from other angles, there’s always a gamble

Always a handful, I was raised to show the game what I stand for

Can’t nobody take this moment from you, there’s nowhere to run to

So force them to make the decision to hate you or love you

And that’s the moment that your fate comes to a crossroads

And God knows, I’ve had my share of choices to make with obstacles off-road

With every piece of sand that’s in my hourglass

And with every breathe I take another hour pass

I tell myself it don’t matter, I’ll let them chitter chatter

Live with the laughter, get what I’m after, turn the page in my book

It’s another chapter, I’m after a bigger dream just to capture the bigger things

That have actually came between all the people that disagree

With the typical human being that never makes up excuse’s

But takes the breaks and heartaches the way that he slaves to make two cents

He’s a nuisance but they still follow his shoe prints

Till the day that he chooses to break away from the pack and the past is useless

Give it everything you got and never settle for less again

And they told me while growing up that success is the best revenge

I’m blessed to have walked the broken road, from student to teacher

When it finally evens out and your through it, it’s much sweeter

I would never take it for granted, never out lash but outlast the struggles

That have now passed, label me as an outcast