Save the Pleasantries - Packy

Steady tryna take the high road

But they make it so hard

They love to tell you «dream big»

'Till you take it too far

They can tell you what you’re doin' wrong

But could never do it like you

If they can’t put a label on ya

Ain’t no tellin' what you might do

Made a lotta changes, I had to do it

Difference between me and them is I can see the wall before I crash into it

I saw the country this year, twice, some people missin'

I gave some people a hint

I guess we’ll see who listen

Crazy when your dream is right in front of you

I been so caught up in day-to-day, to me it’s nothin' new

When did we get here, and why didn’t we celebrate it?

I think I learned that when we really make it I won’t have to say it I don’t

wanna have to say it

I think I’ve been trying to please everybody for way too long

Save the pleasantries

Shit is real as ever

I feel okay, but I feel the pressure

Fell into some old ways to get me felling better

It never lasts

People say «let it pass»

People talk, and people get dismissed like the underclass

I feed on that

If I cut a record, then I bleed on that

They want me underground

But I’d rather keep my feet on that

Used to really play the background

Lookin' up to cats

But couldn’t tell you where they’re at now

It’s crazy

I don’t know if they got lazy or they couldn’t catch a break

Either way I’m yellin' «pay me» cause you never know

Tryna' stay ahead and shit

Must be doin' something right

Finally seeing benefits

I think I could make some people relevant

But they’re too busy tryna' make their own room

They don’t see the elephant

That’s why I’m out here like the delegate

Tryna' turn my boys into the ones I get the cheddar with

That’s why I’m out here like the delegate Tryna' turn my boys into the ones I

get the cheddar with

I think I’ve been trying to please everybody for way too long

Save the pleasantries

Sometimes I need a tough love

It’s sincere

I don’t need a lesson now

Tell me what I wanna hear

I been around the block

They don’t get a cut

I work around the clock

Hear me on sway for anything come off top

Money in

Won’t shake me down

I ain’t make money then

It won’t make me now

Soon as peers can’t relate

Then they break me down

I swear they hate me only cause they ain’t me now

My fuse got shorter, skin got thinner

I got fuel for the fire

Baby, 'bout to be a hot winter

Big bears tryna' eat and I’m not dinner

I got a lot on my plate

And you boys chop liver

I’m a hot spitter, ask about me at the hospital

I’m surgical with the flow, boy, I’m Doc Rivers

Ain’t no middle ground these days

You either wit' us or you’re not wit' us