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Too many days go by when we just waste time
Too many days go by where we don’t take time
Too many days
Too many days
Too many days
I don’t wanna be old full of regrets
Cuz i didn't chase my dreams till my Nikes lost they’re check
I don't know what next
Probably me though
Fuck your peephole
I’m kicking down your door
I’m all up in your Teevo
And I ain't handing you the hinges
I'm getting them gold plated and rocking em with some timberland
Make up a whole cadence and slip it under some instruments
The words flow straight in your brain
It's for your benefit dig
Let these vibes use your mind like a tenement
10 of 10 times we gon get a win
If it’s bout that money I'm gonna hit up Kent
Hit up Lum, hit up Syd, hit up tribe
Ain't got no time to waste no time
Too many days go by when we just waste time
Too many days go by where we don’t take time
Too many days
Too many days
Too many days
I appreciate the love
But I'm still going up
Cuz my buzz ain't enough
So don't you roll one up for me
I'll be way too stuck you see
For any productivity
I'm just tryna get a lead like
My future under investigation
I know a bad bitch her name procrastination
And when I come around she never got her legs shut
And I be diving in it, drowning in it, wilding in it
I just need some time a minute
To get my mind up in it
I gotta make a plan before I decide to strive to get it
And when I grind to get it
When it's time to get it
I bring my tribe to split it
You can't deny the vision
If it ain't the Tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the Tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the Tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the Tribe then it don't vibe
Too many days go by when we just waste time
Too many days go by where we don’t take time
Too many days
Too many days
Too many days
Too many days
I let shit fly
Now if it ain't the tribe then it don’t vibe
That decision freed up so much time
I’m not completing and meeting the real me
The reality that these limitations put in to place
Could never restrain
What we’re trying to create
What I’m trying to create
All love no hate
All love no hate
That's the message no hiding meaning
Connecting and creating is what we’re doing
If it ain't tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the tribe then it don't vibe
If it ain't the tribe then it don't vibe
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2. |
Compromise
04:12
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I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna leave my dreams behind
I don't wanna leave a thing behind
I don't wanna have to take my time
But I don't wanna rush and lose my mind
I don't wanna be one of those people that can see but completely blind
I don't wanna forget my past lives
Maybe I was that prophet walking up on the water
Maybe it was last nomad I gave a dollar
Either way animals is what they always call us
Tryna lock a nigga on that leash
Your crazy cuz I wasn't born to rock that collar
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
I got a fixation on facing my fears
I’ve felt it for years
I been here before
I said that before
But shit I feel it's true
Don't you
This place familiar
Minus the stop and frisk for the color paraphernalia hol up
I'm not tryna forget my passion
I know the practical and inevitable is crashing
But shit I got my seatbelt on
I was playing need for speed at home
I think I'm ready for whatever
I'm ready for the weather to get less inclimate
Prep my team and shit
Grow faster in bigger increments
I need this shit
I fiend this shit
I dreamt this shit would get way bigger than ever before
Severed the door cut it in half and ran through it
Change reality with this got damn music
I ran through it
Change reality with this got damn music
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
I don't wanna take no losses though
No
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
Compromise
I don't wanna take no losses though
Compromise
I don't wanna give no ground up
Take your time this time around
Tryna get it up off the ground
Ain't no shame in going hard
Tryn get up off the BLVD
Or if you’re not hustling
Just everyday bustling
Tryna catch that bus into work and not be late
This is still your plate
We gotta eat from the inner energy
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3. |
Flame Building
03:36
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I wanna love you how I love myself queen
But I'm still learning how to love myself queen
Second-guessing myself whenever I’m touching you
But you just look at me and tell me to keep loving you
I really wanna fan the flame that's between us
Keep the insecurities from in between us
I found you during a retrograde from venus
A nigga still fell like I'm dreaming
Traveling down the path to become a fuller man
Picking up the pieces so I got a fuller hand
Full of all the things I haven't left in the past
Full of all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
Catch myself running from things that haven't come to past
Tryna listen to Erykah and let go of bags
Spent to much time tryna pick which ones to trash
Fuck it ima let em all go
Plus the mask I was wearing tryna mask my appearance from you
All my shadows all my lights I'ma share em with you
All my powers all my strength they apparent with you
Swear to god queen I'm tryna be a parent with you
See my soul is on a drought
And this forest full of doubt
Is blocking the flowing river
Can I clear it with you
All the weight all the pain can I bare it with you
I know you see me queen
I'm just tryna hear it from you
I wanna love you how I love myself queen
But I'm still learning how to love myself queen
Second-guessing myself whenever I’m touching you
But you just look at me and tell me to keep loving you
I really wanna fan the flame that's between us
Keep the insecurities from in between us
I found you during a retrograde from venus
A nigga still fell like I'm dreaming
I'm traveling the path to become a fuller man
Letting go of thangs that had kept me in a trance
Finally see your light and its brightness is so immense
Stepin out the whip don't wanna hide behind the tints.
I wanna help you reach your highest destiny god
I appreciate the way that you invest in me god
And I know that reciprocity is the recipe god
I'm feeling warm and so humble when you next to me god
Even feel the energy when you be texting me god
Accused of love you and yes I do confess to the charge
When you performing on stage I'm the first to applaud
When I'm starring in your eyes you get wet in the drawers
Let me kiss the imperfections and scars
Let me love away the stress and flaws
And the weight and the pain let me bare it with you
I know you see me
Let me hear it from you queen
I wanna love you how I love myself queen
But I'm still learning how to love myself queen
Second-guessing myself whenever I’m touching you
But you just look at me and tell me to keep loving you
I really wanna fan the flame that's between us
Keep the insecurities from in between us
I found you during a retrograde from venus
A nigga still fell like I'm dreaming
I wanna love you how I love myself queen
But I'm still learning how to love myself queen
Second-guessing myself whenever I’m touching you
But you just look at me and tell me to keep loving you
I really wanna fan the flame that's between us
Keep the insecurities from in between us
I found you during a retrograde from venus
A nigga still fell like I'm dreaming
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I feel it inside it’s too strong to deny
Don't even try
I feel it inside it’s too strong to deny
Don't even try
Accept ascension and rise
I forgot how that shit went
Fuck it
Find yourself and not who you're supposed to be
Because honestly that suppose is linked
To society’s dream
How you know you wanna live in that
You ain't seen the options
Sure you wanna stick with that
This tit for tat
Tryna get ahead in the is game
is like stepping to that plate
But you forget the bat
My nigga lit the black
Said how sick is that
I been waiting for a sign
To rise
What I need is inside
It’s mine
If I keep running faster I’ll go too far
Maybe it’s time I just slow the pace
And mastered me
The voice within my being tells me let go
Dancing to the rhythm of my heart
And that the start
And I gotta get the other part
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Ain't Shit
03:17
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If I should find you
Looking for a man
I know that God blessed me so
Let me take your hand
Walk you out this desolate land screaming out
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't shit
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't
She said stop arguing with Dequan and get you a Trevor
For my sister’s hurting this an open letter
Firstly certainly I know my homies need to do better
Thinking we adequate because we gettin your wetter
Oooh that's a trap
Never held you down unless hitting it from the back
And yeah that all that but that don't spiritually feed you
You don't need a leader but you got a man
His ass better know how to lead you
There's gon be plenty of things in life that try to defeat you
So your king needs to build you up like you was Machu Picchu
If he knows and you don't then he should try to teach you
If you hiding your fears then he should at least try to reach you
You looking for an equal not no Baby Boy sequel
But at least you
know who you are
Know who you ain't
Know what you want
Know what you can't accept on some settling shit
I'm sending you
If I should find you
Looking for a man
I know that God blessed me so
Let me take your hand
Walk you out this desolate land screaming out
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't shit
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't
He said don't argue with LeShae
Just get you a Rebecca
To my hurt fellas this an open letter
No certainly firstly I know you need to guard your cheddar
From those who ask for clothes knowing you just met her
We know she bad and Boujie
But spiritually that don't move we
Now she can ride it
Leave it all inside and
Make you feel like you Poseidon
But your attention still divided
A goddess with some goals
You still tryna find it
But at the same time you still tryna climax
So the ones you don't want you gon give em a little attention and
That gon emojis when your @ name they mentioning
You know there all these fish in the sea
That come in great variety
But shit you want a pearl this ain't daddy’s little girls
Waiting for the one you can give the whole world
When you find your queen
Tell her all these things
If I should find you
Looking for a man
I know that God blessed me so
Let me take your hand
Walk you out this desolate land screaming out
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't shit
Niggas ain't shit
Bitches ain't
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Tempered Glass
03:30
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We covered ourselves in pain
Thinking it would give us strength
But we just made our own damn chains
Out of strange
Tempered glass
We calling forth a legion
Of emotions with a grievance
Cuz just kept feeding em
A bunch of different reasons
To remain in the dark on some patience shit
Now they like naw we taking part in this relationship
Got to the point we didn’t talk in our relationship
Even to the point we didn’t fuck in our relationship
Our interactions were controlled by assumptions
Me assuming you assuming
A bunch of pain consumptions
Swallowed it all down and thought we wouldn't shit it out
How foolish was we then
How foolish are we now
I know that I've grown I'm not the same Bilal
You living on ya own you not the same child
That was running from your past
Holding on to everything and tryna make it last
We learned to let go
But at the same time had to let go of us
This one ain't about love
It's more about trust
Tempered glass
This ain’t what you wanted no
And this ain’t what I wanted no
So how we let the whole thing go
Tempered glass
We covered ourselves in pain
Thinking it would give us strength
But we just made our own damn chains
Out of strange
Tempered glass
Tempered glass is treated to be resilient
We use it for our phones and the idea is brilliant
The only thing is tempered glass isn't living
Humans do the same but the difference is chilling
Humans temper ourselves by going through things
And concealing the residual feeling that's
Keeping us from healing
It's like the more we bleed the more we feel strong
That idea is wrong
That’s why I wrote this song
I didn't myself to see what I need for me
She didn't trust her self to see what she needed for she
So how could we
Trust we
Thinking it would last
All the while relying on this tempered glass
Tempered glass protects from the outside
This came from within
Tempered glass never had a chance to defend
Going against yourself is the only sin
Tempered glass
This ain’t what you wanted no
And this ain’t what I wanted no
So how we let the whole thing go
Tempered glass
We covered ourselves in pain
Thinking it would give us strength
But we just made our own damn chains
Out of strange
Tempered glass
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This is for my indigos
On the wall in they pose
Staying low
Inhale the weed
Exhale the smoke
Never know when you gotta move through the crowd
Came to get lit
But not too wild
Wow
She twerkin with no panties on
We all got our crystals on
I ain't worried this ya song
Like get it Qi
Like get it Shae
Like get it Bri
Like get it Quay
Verse 2:
Bounce baby
I got more to the ounce
The energy to thick can’t settle down
I love my space
And time to create
Tends to escape
No room on the plate
These niggas want dates
But can't bear the weight
Don't take it personal I'm manifesting my dreams
But I don't sleep
Too woke to be fake
Matter facts I'm about to leave
Got no time to waste
I got a project at the crib that’s calling my name
A painting at the crib that calling my name
A hobby at the crib that's calling my name
I just wanna relax am I lame
Chill out
Everybody hitting me to come out
But I just wanna
chill and build
Am I old or am I real
I don't know
This is for my indigos
With they introverted pose
Painting on they own clothes
Dreaming of rocking shows
Spit ya flow
nigga
Get ya dough
Nigga
Fuck ya fears
Fuck em
Accept your glow
Yes your exceptional aye
Yes we finessing em aye
Bilal be blessing em aye
With all the words he’ll say
To get us one our way
To a dimensional plane
Let the remedy enter your brain
I got a project at the crib that’s calling my name
A painting at the crib that calling my name
A hobby at the crib that's calling my name
I just wanna relax am I lame
Chill out
Everybody hitting me to come out
But I just wanna
chill and build
Am I old or am I real
I don't know
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Bilal Abbey Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bilal Abbey is a songwriter, audio engineer, and music producer from Pittsburgh who is best known for his solo projects Gremlins, Paradise, and the popular collaboration project with Amethyst Music Group titled Mysterious Shit.
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