Optimist (We Are Not For Them)

I pick a lot of locks
 Rock a lot of shows
 Build with the moms
 Hang with a broken crows
 Been hurting the same heart since I was like 2
 I use sarcasm freely
 Bark at the greedy
 Bite what feeds
 Shy from the seedy
 I'm bold in approach
 So rely on the hope that average MCs cant fuck with or sound like me
 I've never down with The King
 It's never something I wanted to be
 Never better than the work, than the toil and reap
 But the work for the wants, not to suffer for the needs
 Nothing's tougher than the
 Dreams and good sleep
 Teaching my son how to reach
 Damn right
 Cause it get a little darker every night
 And the rent goes up and they cutting out the
 Dead ends to chase
 Feelings to fake
 New hearts to break
 Amends to make
 They all so
 Afraid and safe
 in need of space
 But hugging that crowd
 Only shake with the quake
 And a times like this are up
 We break their stride cause we break our mirrors
 They hugging that pride like its all there is
 We make our own and if they don't feel it
 Then we are not for them (and that's cool)
 I made this beat for Alegra Oxborough
 She showed me how to do the thing with the cups
 I wrote the verse on a triple-double-Tuesday
 Writing in the van in the back lot
 I never made it in
 Never really can tell the friends these days
 Telephone don't sleep some days
 Someday I'ma be peaceful again
 'til then keep speech to a min
 Shed a little skin
 I'ma bet it all and win
 I'ma set it off and run
 I'ma kill it 'til its dead
 I'ma do it 'til it
 Ain't fun and the words don't come
 Then I'm gonna find another hobby
 Probably find love
 Probably find trust
 81 young with a little bit of rust
 Clean interior
 Minnesota plates
 Money in the bank with a lot of you to thank
 Relate to the
 Dead ends to chase
 Feelings to fake
 New hearts to break
 Amends to make
 They all so
 Afraid and safe
 In need of space
 But hugging that crowd
 Only shake with the quake
 And a times like this are up
 (up for whatever, how are you?)
 We break their stride cause we break our mirrors
 They hugging that pride like its all there is
 We make our own and if they don't feel it
 Then we are not for them (we cut our own)
 Dead ends to chase
 feelings to fake
 New hearts to break
 Amends to make
 They all so
 Afraid and safe
 In need of space
 But hugging that crowd
 Only shake with the quake
 And a times like this are up
 Dead ends to chase
 feelings to fake
 New hearts to break
 Amends to make
 They all so
 Afraid and safe
 In need of space
 But hugging that crowd
 Only shake with the quake
 And a times like this are up