Guidelines - Elaquent, Oddisee

To myself I keep, that’s the recipe

Greediness is an ingredient to lesser sleep

Rest easy, get my blessings in the threaded sheets

Buy my book of life, the lessons deep

Accept defeat as a cost, and not a lost

A pause is nothing more than the play you’re involved in

Days are short and when you’re the sun, it’s where it revolves in

Let it rise in another’s eyes

The death of one thing is not the total sum demise

My daughter looking at me

She’s the difference in me, being not just looking happy

Prioritize my mortality, nothing more than lies

The metaphor for my methods will be my daughters' eyes

My elder told me I’m the first man she will ever love

Good luck to the person that hopes to be above

I’ve seen enough to help me read a bluff

The beast slayer let me feast on it to eat it up

Now we suppin'

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by

I was never one for crowds and overt noise

God showed a sense of humor through my work choice

So, the stage became a sacrificial altar

Not a pound of flesh, but the feeling’s nonetheless

So, when I’m done, I jack

Rechargin' what is left in a three-star room

And the iron’s unequipped

Straighting out the here and now

Tears reserved for people who feel that they are beneath you

Sympathy is scarce from the shoulders that just wants to be you

Confessions in the mirror again

I need direction to correction, becomes clearer with pens

If I wrote this on the wall, I’d need medication

But if I write this in the pad, that’s just meditation

A thin line 'tween wallpaper and stationary

Dark torture with flawed mind, don’t think it’s scary

So, I keep to myself, but can I be explained

And in the chamber, what remains, with no shame

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by

I just mind mine, abide by

My own rules, guidelines

Blueprints, white lines

Drove through, drive-by