The Lighthouse

Dem firstborn problems

Crash test, no rest, test case

With stress fracture on chest

And soft heart bruised

So tender, so please

Ease up on me, let me leave

Estranged from baby

Boy knew lonely

All now, tell why no longer cosy

At home in himself

Forget everything and recall

Days before fear, before anxious free fall

Clipped ear, whipped rear and corners

Faced in silence

Now boy an island

Maze from mouth to heart

Send help

'Fore the lighthouse lamp turn dark

Flicker of filament, decode what it tellin' me

This pain of pedigree a litter of sons

Now why are you so easily undone?

Chant, "I am, I am" but don't become

(Did I ever tell you I believe in you?

I believe in you)

Right on time, right on time

Squinting at the shine, man barely saw the jewel

Oh, you a sign, get in line, bruh

You know the rules

Daren't use till I learn if you a weapon or a tool

Stay sus till I sus it out

Trust wear a glove of doubt

Why these years growing so unsure?

Throat sore and the healer a most bitter cure

This taste like a suttin' of familial lore

Blood been here before, where is wisdom?

How I look both ways then fail?

On my knees with a plea, let dirt be the grail

Come, we turn rock bottom to prevail

Add water to it

Fire up a brick

Start in the middle, build a couple layers thick

Door at the base and a window at the tip

Chuck a lamp in it

Flicker of filament, decode what it tellin' me

This pain of pedigree a litter of sons

So why are you so easily undone?

Chant, "I am, I am" but don't become

(Did I ever tell you that I believe in you?

Did I ever tell you that I believe in you?

Did I ever tell you that I believe in you?

Did I ever tell you that I believe in you?)

(Did I, did I, did I?

Did I, did I, did I?

Did I?)

Nature boy, service man

Crossing lands, followed maps drawn by hand

By and by, watch him fly, watch him fly

Soft face, hmm, shy and sad of eye

My guy, look at you all looking like you

Who knew this is what that true talk do?

Look at you

Always knew the boy would pull through

How you do that?

Come back glowin' and grew

Is that you? Yes

Okay, spin around show

That you already know with a therapy flow

How it, feel how it feel now you know that it's real

Got the lesson for the spill, didn't kill, didn't kill ya