Rise and Shine - Inverse

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world

If I died tonight, I’mma keep living through words I’ve used

Standing out in the rain singing the curbside blues

See I’m a street smart rapper with a nerd’s IQ

Just staring down at the world giving my bird’s eye view

This life’s short so I’m taking it one day a time

Then I relive it through the stories that I say in my rhymes

Stay in my grind

And I’m praying to find

A way to design the colors that display in my mind onto the song’s canvas

I’m trying to write out all my wrong answers

And beat the odds cause they say that I ain’t have strong chances

Success always starts with a dream but

The closer that it gets it’s like the farther it seems

Growing up I never cared about the stars on the screen

And never fell for the marketing schemes targeting teens

I’m a free spirit, experienced life and breathe lyrics

My momma taught her son to be fearless

And I’m laid back because the west is my home

I got these bill collectors calling me and texting my phone

I left them alone, decided they were stressing my dome

I knew it all when i was younger and so much less when I’m grown alone

A lost angel in the city of dreams

It ain’t as pretty as it seems on the video screens

It’s hideous things, but still I got the sun in my face, running in place

But we gonna make it one of these days because

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world

Tomorrow is not what it used to be

And although forgotten, the youth I see walk in my shoes

Opportunity knock and soon to be lost when obstacles move in between

If all I got is the shoes on my feet

I refuse to be part of the cycle

And although my parents won’t view it as me

Truth is I see more of them features creeping through as we speak

Trying to grow as an artist and a man

When your life is in the music and it all begins to blend

It’s a give and take, of all the more I can

That’s always been a part that’s so hard to understand

I know some day, I want to be a dad

But the thought of fatherhood makes you got to get a grasp on your life

And any problems that you had

Can’t wander when the kid is there, walking in your path

Trying to find some peace in myself

And at the same time maybe reach someone else

At the least I can speak what I felt

In the moment knowing that I leave nothing held back

If I was blessed with a second turn

I search for what direction works and step with purpose

Wouldn’t stress against a worry

Being less I hurry I guess it’s a lesson learned

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world

There’s something about a day like this that

Makes me want to raise my fist and say

Let’s rise and shine

It’s time to face the world