The Architect - Melo

If you got a dream, chase it

Time?

Don’t waste it

Love, can’t replace it

One eye open — for real and forever

Hov wrote it, made me believe in ev-e-ry letter

40 thousand feet above Greece, thinking of feta

I better be clever, the life is always said to be better

I can’t move with vendettas while I’m stacking my cheddar

They taking shots, no berettas, I think they coming to get us

I keep my eyes on my lettuce, it take a lifetime to build

That bread can be gone in seconds when that hunger gets killed

I’m always dreaming of mills, when people ask how I feel

I say I’m tired and fed up with all the fake and unreal

The girls that caking their face but never down for a date

Will be the same ones that complain a dude’ll swing for the plate

So keep your cutlery straight and recognise what’s at stake

This beef shit that you hype up only emanates hate

And sit your ass at this table while they all pin you a label

You think you sitting with brothers?

Even Kane rocked Abel

Dreams of rocking the Staples and getting paid for my fables

I’m rolling so many leaves think I should play for the Maples

While I be chasing degrees so high I’m stacking my paper

Suspect that I’m selling weed?

Ha, so do my neighbours

HOOK:

Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision

I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission

Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break

Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate

Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision

I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission

Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break

Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate

Nipsey got shot and there ain’t no turning back

Had to listen to him so I could learn how to rap

RIP posts on my feed, phone’s black

This the first damn time that I didn’t wanna rap

I ain’t even claiming to be scared (nah)

This ain’t got nothing to do with fear (nah)

I mean I just sat in silence, tryna make sense of the violence

Meanwhile Lauren tryna word it to their kid (that's fucked up)

Frustrated at talent wasted no lie I shed a tear

He all the way in LA and still taught me lessons over here

Stressing on reinvestment, manifest your progression

The tweet he sent out before tell me he knew what he had destined

The 2Pac of my generation

Middle fingers at you if you disagree with my statement

And say a prayer for the ones who ain’t made it

As I pop the cork on this D’ussé and pour it out on the pavement

HOOK:

Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision

I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission

Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break

Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate

Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision

I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission

Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break

Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate