Dreaming With Our Eyes Open - Witt Lowry

Stuck in the same room, in the same mood

Everybody tried to tell me what I can’t do

Everybody tried to tell me that I changed too

And I changed lanes from you lame dudes

It’s been a minute since I spilled my pain

Had to take a step back and look at life in a different way

If you want the change, you gotta be the change

Now we’re all the same

Nobody wanna take the reins

Nobody wanna push their brain

Nobody will admit that they’re fake for the facts they claim

You see we’re all imperfect in a perfect way

And while we work all day, we all work, no play

We are slaved to the loans and the bills we pay

You consume a double cheese when the radio play

Mainstream, Mickey D’s and my shit gourmet

I’ve been up for seven days straight

Tryin' to figure out my fate

Tryin' to figure out any way to put food on my plate

But I sold a few tee’s, so I’m eating today

Okay, doing okay

Could probably do better, came home to a letter

Eviction, I know I don’t fit your description of rapper

But me I’m a clearer, they threw all the chatter

I know everything that glitter ain’t gold

Life is the clay, you too busy to mold

Time here is taking its toll

We spend all our time without passion and then we get old

Was told I should go quit

But none of you see all the letters I get from these kids

Who hurt from within and don’t wanna live

And tell me my music is all that can give them hope

Yeah, all we need is some hope

And they tell me their family’s broken and broke

They usin' my music to cope

I’ve been on that boat, held down by a rope

Held down by a string, y’all looking for things

I’m looking to change the perception of people

And all of the beautiful things that it brings, yeah

Record in my closet, don’t make enough profit

Y’all used to have morals and somehow you lost it

Don’t care about the money I spend on my coffin

I care bout the people attendin'

And often we’re lost, lost in this world

We’re selfish to think, «I could find happiness in a girl»

We’re selfish to think we’re elite, we destroy and deplete

Our whole planet no smarter than squirrels

So who wants to talk about that?

Who wants to talk about facts

Maybe I’d be in your mag

If I added «Tunechi» or «bap bap»

Or I talked about weed when I rap

But fuck all of that, the voice of the youth

The voice of the people, the real and the truth

The voice of the one who had nothin' to lose

I speak for a heart that’s been broken and beaten and bruised

I’m tired of holes in my shoes

Tired of having to move

Tired of coming unglued

Tired of cleanin' your table and servin' you food

We are what we choose

If only you knew the shit that I’ve seen

I can’t tell if I’m lucid or livin' the dream

I don’t do it for me, do it all for the team

I remember back livin' when I was a teen

And my grandma, she said I was worthless

And my teachers said I had no purpose

And my mama she said I was perfect

I’m sittin' on Twitter while I should be workin' on verses

You’re worth it, and when you feel weak

The deeper the trench, the higher the peak

See y’all are a piece of my legacy 'cause you believe

We can be anything and I wanna be… me