A Different Light - The Perceptionists

This is me right now

No poetry shroud

Maybe on the brink of death except the beat was pumpin loud

And it told me…

It’d hold me through the darkest of times

If I want to live

All I had to do was start to rhyme

I thought about it

No words came

But those birds came…

Vultures circled over head

Thinking I was surely dead

I asked the rhythm where to take it from here

The beat was gone

And all it left behind was a snare

Symbolic

I never was an alcoholic

Never fucked with hard drugs

Nearly overdosed on love

That’s my fault

We’ve all got our vices to claim

I took a real hard fall

It seems I’ll never be the same

How can I separate the lessons from pain?

How can I shake this eerie vibe of feeling drained?

If the past holds fire

And the future’s unclear

Somebody tell me where I’m going from here

Want to crucify me for toughest era in my life?

That’s all right…

Thought the world of you but now I see you in a different light

That’s all right…

Want to crucify me for toughest era in my life?

That’s all right…

Thought the world of you but now I see you in a different light

That’s all right…

I don’t need to call your name out — I ain’t trying to embarrass ya

This is not about revenge, it’s more about your character

Or lack thereof, step back there brov

How can you call someone a friend and then attack their love?

On my potential deathbed hooked up to machines and things

You would text my girl, and message her the sweetest things

Same time you would look me right in my face

And advise trying the single life when I left that wretched place

You tried to get me at my lowest moment

Funny how those we call our friends often quickly become opponents

Vultures circled overhead thinking I was surely dead

But always bet on Ak the burly dread

Now I’m all healed up

Stronger than ever before

Would have blitzed back when, but I ain’t contemplating war no more

I’m above all the melodrama

«When they go low, we go high» — Michelle Obama

Want to crucify me for toughest era in my life?

That’s all right…

Thought the world of you but now I see you in a different light

That’s all right…

Want to crucify me for toughest era in my life?

That’s all right…

Thought the world of you but now I see you in a different light

That’s all right…