I Had Music - Mont Jake, Noname

You taught me how to roll up

Roll it up

While Nas would beautify my four walls

Exhaling white clouds through my mouth

And just dreaming 'bout a future so far away from these:

Classroom tyrants would hit me again

When the questions bout' my weekend began

Staying out of neon lights

Put you right into an open spotlight

I could never shake off

Shake them off

When I spent the days alone being off beat

Fifteen, too green, anxiously

And excluded from the clique cuz we’re too eccentric

Classroom tyrants would hit me again

When the questions bout' my weekend began

Acting like a mystery

To everyone around me

I would never let it show

I had nowhere else to go

But I was never all alone

I had music, I had music

Me and you and everyone would tag along

Me and you, a shadow of a vagabond

A happy place, a memory of everybody’s favorite song

I’m living my life like it’s golden

I’ll be held him, and I’ll behold him, I’ll be open, I’ll be close and like

paradise

Nice to meet you on nights like this we fall in love

Only for the bottom of the hour

Then I cower in the gratitude of every note and anecdote

The vacancy a simile for overdose, uh

This is what love is

The music and the openness

Classroom tyrants would hit me again

When the questions bout' my weekend began

Staying out of neon light

Put you right into an open spotlight

Monday morning was nothing but pain

Isolation I could never explain

Acting like a mystery

To everyone around me