Oxygen. Lyrics
[Prod. Mr. Carmack]
[Verse I]
Setting - in my fucking room
Time of day - afternoon
Characters - me and my girl
"Action!" It's a movie shoot
Just a rapper, I don't act a lot and I don't co-produce
Seems like this the only way that I could make a movie too
Write the script and shoot visuals that show that my screws is loose
Personality flaws are evidence we been through abuse
Mentally unstable, we wasn't able to handle truth
Grab the jumper cables, we start em up, when we hit the juice
Found out that my parents ain't love each other; their shit diffused
Mama moved away cross the country, she had to give the deuce
Fucked me up and messed with my mind but I had to cut it loose
Contemplated suicide, five years later, I hid the noose
Both my best friends had drug problems since middle school
One for selling and one for buying, I thought that shit was cool
Until you hear your man was on heroin
Man, there's just no comparison
Swear I probably fucking needed a therapist
But it felt too embarrassing
So I learned to hide my pain in my arrogance
All the anger that I tamed, nobody else was aware of it
When you feel the feel the way I feel, you get scared of it
My heritage is my only inheritance
[Bridge]
I just needed you there
I just needed you there
(Where?)
I just needed you there
I just needed you there
(Where?)
I just needed you there
I just needed you there
[Verse II]
This is something that my mother's been praying on
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That my father's been preying on
That my friends have been waiting on
Had to make it perfect, this is something I was saving for em
I don't need the haters or the doubters to put labels on it
I just tell the truth with the emotions I'm conveying
And I'm saying, since birth I been aiming for infinity
This is '94 for forever
In a few years, I wanna perform at Coachella
In due time, I'm taking over the Rocafella
They tell me that I sound too overzealous, well hey now fellas
I'll never stop just because a stupid nigga's jealous
Rappers started cooking that's what music tries to sell us?
And you're tryna tell me I can't get my little music sale up?
I'm making music that'll last bruh
Money talks! Well it's fitting that I rap, huh?
I'll bring you all up with me like the rapture
Feeling like Kodak cause this moment I'mma capture
I let the haters hate, take shots but never penetrate
I meditate but never hesitate to set em straight
But if it resonates then let your high just elevate
And come and celebrate what emanates for heaven's sake
[Bridge/Outro]
So you could either listen or don't
But at least you heard the shit that I wrote
...And you could either listen or don't
But at least you heard the shit that I wrote
...You could listen or don't
But at least you heard the shit that I wrote
I just needed you there
I just needed you
