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Act II

1. Vibe

reckless for you, baby, need you here tonight

i'll be honest, lately, need you by my side, yeah

girl, you got me like no one else, no one else

you’re my one and only

 

i just want you here to vibe, feels so right

so crazy without you, baby

so come over we can just vibe day and night

heart racing, this feeling ain’t fading

 

tell me what you thinking, am i on your mind

oh, selfish, am i dreaming, losing track of time, yeah

girl, you make me feel like no one else, no one else

you’re my one and only

 

i just want you here to vibe, feels so right

so crazy without you, baby

so come over we can just vibe day and night

heart racing, this feeling ain’t fading

 

make me love you, nothing above you

oh never going back, never put you last

girl, it’s so easy, let go and be free

 

i just want you here to vibe, feels so right

so crazy without you, baby

so come over we can just vibe day and night

heart racing, this feeling ain’t fading

3. For the Soul

i was lonely, baby

without you i was lonely, baby

take me back to the only place

you’re the only face i see

 

oh i was hurting, baby

without you my heart was burning, baby

feeling things i can’t explain

baby, you embracing me

 

oh now i got you

oh, baby, you’re good for the soul

 

now i’m flying, baby

with you here i ain’t dying, baby

when you’re here i ain’t playing, babe

now i’m praying that you’ll stay

now i’m winning, baby

with you here i am spinning, baby

now you’re here we can just escape

baby, take me far away

 

oh ‘cause i got you

oh, baby, you’re good for the soul

5. Grenade

put me on display, don't hide me away

i'm unafraid

watch me burst into flames, i'm like a grenade

and i don't play games

you stuff me in boxes and hide me away

tell me that i better watch what i say

think i'm tripping and spinning when i'm on the stage

just 'cause i don't live my life in your shades on gray

and you acting like i ain't a soldier, love

maybe my moves just too bold for you

maybe you hating on the underdog

'cause you know that soon imma rise up above

and i ain't keeping track but let's look at the score

you sigh of relief when i step off the floor

you act like my freedom makes me an outlaw

but i see you walking around like you're a puppeteer's toy

and i watch you when you strutting around with your crew

acting like you do the things that i do

walking disclaimer like i need excusing

when really you sit on your hands like a fool

put me on display, don't hide me away

i'm unafraid

watch me burst into flames, i'm like a grenade

and i don't play games

you tell me to keep my mouth locked up but i

imma do more than sit pretty and smile

trying to convince me to hide from the lights

'cause i'll win on the track while you falling behind

just say you love me better when i don't know what to be

you talking the talk but you hide behind me

opinion sundowning like you is 80

views so old and brittle, need vitamin D

when i use my own brain what you do, run

mouth hanging open like damn, son

i do not care about no one

because end of the day i get it done

my lyrics you can't comprehend

you smiling you trying to pretend

but you're generation got benched

rain coming down on you hard, don't get drenched, boy

put me on display, don't hide me away

i'm unafraid

watch me burst into flames, i'm like a grenade

and i don't play games

you know i'm the real deal now, you are just a wannabe

and i won't give in to nobody

don't think for a second now, that you'll get apologies

and you won't ever live up to what i'm going to be

put me on display, don't hide me away

i'm unafraid

watch me burst into flames, i'm like a grenade

and i don't play games

7. F I R E (Act II)

my baby chases fireflies, smiling with her brown eyes

doesn’t know what you’re gonna put her through

‘cause i’m working for the good life, staring through your white lies

honey don’t you tell me what i should do

and maybe she’s the reason why

i started painting all my white flags blue

‘cause my girl deserves a good fight

so i’ll be at the frontline fighting for two 

 

now my daddy worked the long nights

dreaming bout the day he could step out and feel the sun on his face

my mama worked a double shift, fighting off the racists

telling her to go back to where she came from

and maybe they’re the reason why

i slowly became everything that you hate

but i don’t give a damn what you say

 

hey, i won’t fall in line no more, no more, now

hey, running out of time, so long, so long

hey i’m gunning, i’m gunning for my voice to be heard oh

hey, nobody left behind oh

 

all the people on the news now telling me to bow down

like i’m gonna listen to what they say

they’ve forgotten that i’m too proud

i don’t hide in big crowds

honey if you hurt me, you’re gonna pay

and i know I’m the reason why

the people who hate me, they won’t get away

and i don’t give a damn what you say

 

hey, i won’t fall in line no more, no more, now

hey, running out of time, so long, so long

hey i’m gunning, i’m gunning for my voice to be heard oh

hey, nobody left behind oh

 

so, honey, now do you see

what i’ve been fighting for all this time

now, honey, do you believe

that i’m gonna make it right

so, honey, now do you see

what i’ve been fighting for all this time

now, honey, do you believe

that i’m gonna make it right

 

hey, i won’t fall in line no more, no more, now

hey, running out of time, so long, so long

hey i’m gunning, i’m gunning for my voice to be heard oh

hey, nobody left behind oh

 

hey, i won’t fall in line no more

so, hey, you best run and hide

9. Welcome

welcome, welcome to hell (this is what i was afraid of)

i hope it pleases you, only time will tell (they were never the problem, it was always you)

whether you're broken, whether you're sick in the head

i hope you find what you're looking for, or they'll find you instead (i can't move, i can't breathe)

call all your enemies, oh your reckoning has come (i can't think)

they won't make it swift or painless, oh no they've just begun (what do you want from me)

the silence it grows louder than the thoughts in your head (get out)

burn the words around you, mean all the things that you said

oh you've been duped, you've been fooled (go to hell)

if you knew all the things that i knew

you would run, run, run, run, run away from here (it was always you)

but welcome back, you've been missed (get out)

go on, get a little more off your chest

you've got time, got eternity for this (you are what i was afraid of)

so welcome, welcome to hell

whether you leave this place, only time will tell

11. Purple Love

blue eyes, laugh lines, he will lay under blue skies with you

blue jeans, cool breeze, he walked out of a daydream for you

an angel, oh meeting him was fateful

you fell and now you're eyes been closed shut since

purple love got you thinking of

all the things you would have done

blue and red dancing in your head

you don't need to choose 'the one'

red lips, not a care, what you have with her so rare, you know

red lights, long hair, tangled up in the cold air and unknown

a woman, none like the one you're holding

you fell and now you're eyes been closed shut since

purple love got you thinking of

all the things you would have done

blue and red dancing in your head

you don't need to choose 'the one'

it feels like a whirlwind, but you don't play the game to win

all you do is feel something

you don't got to pick a side, this ain't no battle fight

it's alright to let your own love win

purple love got you thinking of

all the things you would have done

blue and red dancing in your head

you don't need to choose 'the one'

they can't make you choose 'the one'

don't apologize you've just got purple love

2. Overdue

lately, lately we been skipping all the bases

i can taste you on my mind, it leaves me hazy

baby, show me things i haven't seen

leave me, leave me wanting more because you freed me

i don't want to ever lose you, unappealing

got me hoping that you say the things you mean

breathe me in while i breathe you out

tripping over you, i don't want to lose

build me up while i break you down

things that we been through, love is overdue

scheming, lying, yelling, fighting, i been dreaming

of the days when we would feel all of our feelings

oh can you take me to the days when i loved you

breathe me in while i breathe you out

tripping over you, i don't want to lose

build me up while i break you down

things that we been through, love is overdue

won't you come my way, hey

make me crave you after all i gave you

breathe me in while i breathe you out

tripping over you, i don't want to lose

build me up while i break you down

things that we been through, love is overdue

4. Psycho

my biggest fear is that eventually they will see me how i see myself

 

laying on the concrete, half past three

just me, myself, and i

got on my favorite lip gloss, take it all off

we’re just strangers in the night

they’ll call you troubled, baby, don’t be crazy

just do what i want, pretty please

 

nice to meet you, my name is psycho, it’s alright though

i’m so pretty when i lie

trying to run out of my claws, magic 8 ball

you’re just running out of time

now don’t you see that i’m the only one who’ll teach you how to breathe

trust me, it’s just you and me

 

chaos ain’t no game for two oh

just let me in and watch me ‘cause i’ll always win

so fast you won’t know what to do oh

let the madness begin

 

oh now you’re hungover

‘cause i’m behind the wheel

you’ll try to tell the others, don’t bother

they’ll all tell you it’s not real

honey, you’ll only ever be a pretty pawn in someone’s game

just play, it’s just you and me

 

chaos ain’t no game for two oh

just let me in and watch me ‘cause i’ll always win

so fast you won’t know what to do oh

let the madness begin

 

my, my, what’s come over me, oh

don’t cry, i don’t want to live

but i don’t want to leave

6. Monster

they say it's for the best now

they say it's for the best now, best now

and i fall down, and i pick myself up

baby, i've been wrong before

baby, baby, look at me now

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

monster, monster, monster

8. Stuck Alive

tell me that i’m beautiful

tell me that i asked for it

tell me that i’m special and that you don’t do this often

you say there’s beauty in the darkness, just close your eyes

you killed me with your love but i’m stuck alive

 

your fixation on me’s getting terrifying

but if i told my brothers they’d think i’m lying

and it shouldn’t matter what i’m wearing tonight yeah

oh ‘cause i swear to God i was never inviting

 

but you, you found me, you drown me

oh you, you stole me, control me

 

tell me that i’m beautiful

tell me that i asked for it

tell me that i’m special and that you don’t do this often

you say there’s beauty in the darkness, just close your eyes

you killed me with your love but i’m stuck alive

 

don’t want to be rude so i’m down on my knees

you don’t understand no, so i’m begging you please

oh ‘cause i’m underwater and i cannot breathe, oh

so i close my eyes while you spread like disease

 

'cause you, you found me, you drown me

oh you, you stole me, control me

 

tell me that i’m beautiful

tell me that i asked for it

tell me that i’m special and that you don’t do this often

you say there’s beauty in the darkness, just close your eyes

you killed me with your love but i’m stuck alive

 

now i’m scared even when the lights are on

is that so wrong, is that so wrong

‘cause i thought that if i played along

you’d be gone, oh you’d be gone

 

tell me that i’m beautiful

tell me that i asked for it

tell me that i’m special and that you don’t do this often

you say there’s beauty in the darkness, just close your eyes

killed me with your love but i’m stuck alive

 

i’m stuck alive

10. 307

pouring all they problems in a red cup

talk about it too much, call them extra

staring at her phone, 3:07

guess it doesn't really make a difference

tell 'em, i don't even know where i come from

repping Cincinnati but i'm long gone

sister born in Hong Kong, middle school in China

can't escape the brown, but you know i'm always trying to put a

distance between me and all my heritage

ain't about inheritance, swear i'm all American

sorry i'm repetitive, i don't know if i'm selling it

really insecurity but it come off as arrogance, that's my fault

guess i'm too old now to say i'm still learning

bring the beat back like a cardio surgeon

but you know it's deeper than that, i'm soul searching

swear i try my best, but i don't think it's working

but while i'm on the topic of the best

do you think it's good to put your kids to the test while they're stressed

under pressure you push them to the next and the next

and the next and the next, oh my bad i digress

(i mean, ugh)

i keep mixing my words

not something i'm born with it's something i learned

always interrupted, man, it's really my turn

if i give you respect why is it not returned, womanhood hard as hell

i should say something about it, i probably won't

why you never stand up, what you fighting for

people dependent on your be responsible

lead a march at 17 years old

no, i want to do good, i swear, got hands in my pockets like i don't care

'cause i'm just a kid, can't be superman

in a world where they all act like they better than

listen, i don't need superiority in the conformity

everyone act like they already ready for all of the fame, look

look everybody know my name

but if everyone special then everyone same

now that's just the problem with how we was raised though

no, fair is not the same as equal, there ain't no good, bad, or evil

everybody just a people, trying to get all that they need

so take it or leave it, don't break a sweat

but can't get it out of my head, keeping me up, 3:07

getting too conscious, got to disengage

yeah i'm getting too conscious, disengage

we drown ourselves in all the money and TV shows

celebrity gossip, who dating who

rapping about cars and girls and grills, ay, man, i love the cheap thrills

just post a 'gram, y'all gon' double tap, if you don't i'm not gon' follow back

yeah, when i say it out loud it sound dumb

but it's okay as long as i'm still numb, yeah, yeah

12. Teach Me How to Fill My Soul

i'm not trying to fill my pockets now

i'm just trying to figure me out

no wind, just the cold air of AC nights

don't fill out my stereotype

there's a hunger in your eyes as you exhale smoke

overfilling up to my neck, i think i could choke

and i've been through it all

3 AM searching, teach me how to fill my soul

to the girl in the alley who gets called such a tease

because no one ever sees her begging please

and i wipe the scrapes and the bruises off of my knees

as you stand back smiling, i continue to bleed

oh, no one ever taught me how to live my life right

so i watch everybody do their best to get by

to the man of the hour who just on parole

watch him call out to the river, teach me how to fill my soul

and i've been through it all

all my life searching, teach me how to fill my soul

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