A.D. Carson - 12 - Calling Spades lyrics

If I end where I started
I bet you gone know the difference
This is living
Not merely existing bars without the prisons
Far beyond the glimmer of
Prisms reflecting light
My father was so dark that I’m
Bright sun of the night
And you’re loony to think
The tunes you’re confusing
With you consuming the fruit of
The tree of knowledge
Are any truer to you if you got it see
If I start where I finish
You’ll see the difference
In presentation, delivery
Understanding and memory
Remember, if you can see the
Forest and the leaves
The branches and the trees
Advance and then recede
Then maybe you can see there’s an
Art to the game of war
Start just a day before
And end with a 24 to relax
No basketball metaphor, but even still
If your Achilles Heel is revealed
And you need to heal
Nobody wants to hear that you’re
Resting to get better
They’re more or less on quest
To investigate your succession

If you call what you do rap
I say you shouldn’t do that if you insist
Then I suggest that you do this:
Call what I do something
That’s the total opposite
‘Cause we don’t do the same thing
Bruh that’s kind of obvious
I say there’s room for us both but who am I?
And people seem to be cool
With confusing you and I but I’m not
And I’m aware how the moves
In the game are played
But how ‘bout we just call a spade a spade

To this new generation of "emcees, "
On knees, giving new definition to succeed
Take this as a warning, and take pause
Take a look in the mirror
Witness what you caused identity crisis
Pretending to like what I don’t
Is what I don’t do i’m really polite
When it comes to writing nice shit
My pen’s on the night shift, bar hopping
Trying to scribble some lines
That are jaw dropping i often fail to engage
In the conversations occurring
That start with "back in the days"
I’m more concerned with the current
But currently, If I’m looking for flow
Then I guess I oughta
Play my own shit, or find a body of water
That’s deep
‘cause it’s really the way I feel
But it’s also kind of shallow
I understand the appeal
Of appearing to be persnickety, flipping
Lickety-split
And then splitting some dividends
I guess this is where it ends and begins

If you call what you do rap
I say you shouldn’t do that if you insist
Then I suggest that you do this:
Call what I do something
That’s the total opposite
‘Cause we don’t do the same thing
Bruh that’s kind of obvious
I say there’s room for us both but who am I?
And people seem to be cool
With confusing you and I but I’m not
And I’m aware how the moves
In the game are played
But how ‘bout we just call a spade a spade

I call a spade by it’s name no faking jacks
Or no bluffing the heart of a king that’s
Beating when speaking over percussion
Conducted by Preme call it
A premium pre-production
Cause this is teaching
And THE main feature will be discussion
So, see
Mane: Let me explain just how I does it
You do it how you can i
Do however you doesn’t no man woman, child
Could a style ever create to see A
Dot stop it if you trying no
Lying no standing near him either
He’s a monster breathing
Fire when I sigh, it’s sayonara to ya see ya
I applaud ya’, patna
But this part of writing speeches
For me is like comparing snuff
To art inspired features
I murder beats just to bring ‘em back
To life and let you witness
Listen, be convinced that it’s a
Sickness I’m afflicted with
The sickest shit you ever want
To say you ever saw
And you can say you saw it from the start"

If you call what you do rap
I say you shouldn’t do that if you insist
Then I suggest that you do this:
Call what I do something
That’s the total opposite
‘Cause we don’t do the same thing
Bruh that’s kind of obvious
I say there’s room for us both but who am I?
And people seem to be cool
With confusing you and I but I’m not
And I’m aware how the moves
In the game are played
But how ‘bout we just call a spade a spade