King No Crown - Blueprint

I wrote this in a coffee shop watching all the traffic

Waiting on a COTA bus ordered up a sandwich

Amazed by your melody blasting in my headphones

Familiar song played to me feeling still unknown

Past leading everywhere nowhere at the same time

Enough to spark insanity inside the most sane mind

Jealous of the birds cause God gave them the skies

So we built a machine now man learns to fly

You can fly too if the right price is paid

Do away with the bird put his ass in a cage

But even in the cage still finds time to sing

It testify to the beauty that the new day bring

They say that truth hurts well half truth still sting

If life is a bitch I’m still giving her a ring

Never more sure this is where I’m supposed to be

I’m the youngest out of four momma could have stopped at three

But everything around us in the way that we define it

Is the blink of an eye or the wand who designed it

English, Geometry, Mathematics, Chemistry

Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry

Taught in a classroom passed out of history

Man-made disciplines for living more efficiently

Concrete monuments erected more frequently

Man stands in awe of his perfect sense of symmetry

Great Walls of China, Pyramids of Egypt

Build it, destroy it, pass it on, then repeat it

Above and beyond the really need it

The peak means nothing to us once we get to reach it

Parks and recreation, roadways and industry

A city now sits where the nature used to live in peace

Subject indigenous to genocide and slaughter

I’m living in a village named in that man’s honor

Southside Columbus my neighborhood is decent

But every single factory is here for a reason

Can’t prove a thing but believe me that I feel it

As real as the toxins in the air when I breathe it

I want success so bad that I can barely sleep

It’s hard to count sheep when you’re thinking about beats

Thinking about greatness not thinking about beef

Y’all need to do the same and stop thinking about me

I value time too much to be around certain people

Let ‘em pad each other on the back and stroke each other’s ego

Take all the credit for success that might meet you

But when the blame is passed they don’t wanna share that equal

People say anything I try not to sweat it

Respect myself too much to put they names on my record

I never owned a gun God gave me other weapons

Cause the strength of any weapon doesn’t rest in the weapon

And my weapon is my message that’s where the power found

A jewel for you fools who wonder how I’m still around

Leader of many men, king with no crown

Emerged from the wilderness headed back to town

Rejected his birth right, ran away from home

But he the only one can pull the sword from the stone

And be the best ruler that his city ever know

So until I’m overthrown I’m gonna be here on the thrown

And I’m gone!