Akala, Mic Righteous - The Journey lyrics
[Akala, Mic Righteous - The Journey lyrics]
Isn't the purpose of life to
Give your life some purpose?
Chasing these dreams and these goals
To only find they're worthless
(In this eternal circus I
Could turn in circles
Spins around the fire burning
We're searching for higher learning)
Distracted by higher earning
Yearning for more than what's on the surface
What if I told you that
Inside you were perfect
(Would you believe me or say I'm crazy man
What's your verdict?)
The furthest from the battlefield
Is always lovin war
(The one who's on the front line
Well he ain't as sure)
Don't appreciate all your blessings
You need to struggle more
(Might have the fullest plate and
Live amongst the poor)
If you've got a heart full of hate
Then you are just as flawed
(What if the journey is the
Destination, what you reckon
If you present) is a present, will you grab
It with every second, or
(Would you still wreck it
Given a second chance?
Now that we've even said it
Nah, we ain't no better, in fact)
We're just as wreckless and we
Ain't got the answers
(These are just our questions)
Journey with us
Journey as we ask these questions
(Journey with us, journey with us)
Journey with us
Journey as we're learning lessons
(Journey with us, journey with us
Journey with us, journey with us)
We ain't got the answers
(Journey with us, journey with us)
We're just asking questions
Is this what they're waiting for
Cause we give it to them straight and raw
Is this what they're waiting for
(This what they've been waiting for)
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
I've been livin' in a prison in my mind
You been nothin' like mine, when you talk
Pigs fly what you call this life
What you glamorize is a pack of lies
I'm with a pack of lions
You ain't playin' with our pride
That's patronising
Talking to the young bucks
You ain't ready for the pop-pop
Little Akon, you don't wanna get locked up
You don't wanna be a Konvict
What you spat got him on shit
Don't you fuckin' have a conscience?
I got this, can't stop it there
That's how I felt for the last couple years
You don't wanna confront my peers
My brother just lost somebody
So I had to go back to
The manor and confront my peers
And comfort my peers
All this time I'm funding my career
All this time my fans are getting air
Yeah, I'm stood in the middle of nowhere
And I broke my back just to get here
Then and there is where dad
Just said a prayer
Still feel the blood of the person
I was building up in me, yeah I'm prepared
Still feel the blood of the person
I was building up in me, yeah I'm aware
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
Akala and Righteous
The words we are uttering
Feel in your spirit
The pain we are summoning
Cause we came up in the suffering
Now we're recovering
But it still feels like we're stuck in it
There's enough of it
Everyone's sucking the life out of people
If it doesn't toughen 'em
Break, crack, shatter your life
This is the journey, it ain't always nice
We have not learned to disable the lies
It seems we're determined to
Pay all the price but still
I murder a rhythm like no one in Britain
I'm righteous on mics when I'm spitting
Fam, don't worry bout me I am living
Just play your position and
Stay out the kitchen
When the rhythm hit him in the chest
Better get a vest
I'm obsessed in his steaks there on the decks
Getting vexed, it's a head stare on your neck
So who's next to express? Get
It off your chest
Chess that I play, fuck the right game
Time you were sure you
Aboard the right plane?
This one right here it goes where I say
The journey is allowing me to focus my pain
To spit phrases, molten ice flames
You'll get burned and frozen
That's only quite tame
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
Brush off my shoulders and
Bop to the mother-ship
Bumping some other shit
Now all the lies will just turn into mumbling
Turn up my mic again
Turn up my mic so they know
Who the fuck it is know when I'm coming in
You just a problem for rap, when I rap
I'm a problem for governments
There's a problem in
Mainstream media coverage
Ffeeding us utter shit
Please keep 'em coming in
This year I'm encouraging anyone with the
Courage to go up against
The system we're stuck up in
And if you ain't with us then fuck if then
Become a pawn or become a king
Become a pauper
They die by the sword of another pawn
Why are we fighting each other for?
Why are we fighting our brothers for?
What's the price of a life
If you young and poor?
Looking online at a life for
Only some can afford i got a son that needs
More so I'm opening doors
I'm hoping he won't say I'm hopeless
That is more dangerous than a
Man who is desperate, broken
Coming back from an injury, did you miss me?
Man'll wanna throw me out like a frisbee
(Where you been fam?)
Wanna know where I've been G?
(yeah, tell me now)
I've been alone, it's a rocky road, Kingsley
It's a rocky road in the
Stories that we're told
Well I'm evolved from the
Places that we've growed
You wasn't there when the
Rental was in arrears
And the bailiffs came to the door
You wasn't there
Didn't witness all the tears
In fact have you ever been poor before?
You sure this ain't Jersey Shore?
This is real life, it is totally raw
Uncle's is going to prison
And half of your role models getting
Their dough in the kitchen
Living right next to the rich kids
One street away but our
Struggle is totally different
I am the man of the house where I'm living
And I'm like 11, I'm destined for prison
I never went though cause I beat the system
And all of my villains is
Proud that I broke tradition
You don't know shit about us
Do not discuss what you cannot sus
Sus is the start of them fuckin' us up
No it wasn't just not enough luck
Better suck it up
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
Give your life some purpose?
Chasing these dreams and these goals
To only find they're worthless
(In this eternal circus I
Could turn in circles
Spins around the fire burning
We're searching for higher learning)
Distracted by higher earning
Yearning for more than what's on the surface
What if I told you that
Inside you were perfect
(Would you believe me or say I'm crazy man
What's your verdict?)
The furthest from the battlefield
Is always lovin war
(The one who's on the front line
Well he ain't as sure)
Don't appreciate all your blessings
You need to struggle more
(Might have the fullest plate and
Live amongst the poor)
If you've got a heart full of hate
Then you are just as flawed
(What if the journey is the
Destination, what you reckon
If you present) is a present, will you grab
It with every second, or
(Would you still wreck it
Given a second chance?
Now that we've even said it
Nah, we ain't no better, in fact)
We're just as wreckless and we
Ain't got the answers
(These are just our questions)
Journey with us
Journey as we ask these questions
(Journey with us, journey with us)
Journey with us
Journey as we're learning lessons
(Journey with us, journey with us
Journey with us, journey with us)
We ain't got the answers
(Journey with us, journey with us)
We're just asking questions
Is this what they're waiting for
Cause we give it to them straight and raw
Is this what they're waiting for
(This what they've been waiting for)
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
I've been livin' in a prison in my mind
You been nothin' like mine, when you talk
Pigs fly what you call this life
What you glamorize is a pack of lies
I'm with a pack of lions
You ain't playin' with our pride
That's patronising
Talking to the young bucks
You ain't ready for the pop-pop
Little Akon, you don't wanna get locked up
You don't wanna be a Konvict
What you spat got him on shit
Don't you fuckin' have a conscience?
I got this, can't stop it there
That's how I felt for the last couple years
You don't wanna confront my peers
My brother just lost somebody
So I had to go back to
The manor and confront my peers
And comfort my peers
All this time I'm funding my career
All this time my fans are getting air
Yeah, I'm stood in the middle of nowhere
And I broke my back just to get here
Then and there is where dad
Just said a prayer
Still feel the blood of the person
I was building up in me, yeah I'm prepared
Still feel the blood of the person
I was building up in me, yeah I'm aware
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
Akala and Righteous
The words we are uttering
Feel in your spirit
The pain we are summoning
Cause we came up in the suffering
Now we're recovering
But it still feels like we're stuck in it
There's enough of it
Everyone's sucking the life out of people
If it doesn't toughen 'em
Break, crack, shatter your life
This is the journey, it ain't always nice
We have not learned to disable the lies
It seems we're determined to
Pay all the price but still
I murder a rhythm like no one in Britain
I'm righteous on mics when I'm spitting
Fam, don't worry bout me I am living
Just play your position and
Stay out the kitchen
When the rhythm hit him in the chest
Better get a vest
I'm obsessed in his steaks there on the decks
Getting vexed, it's a head stare on your neck
So who's next to express? Get
It off your chest
Chess that I play, fuck the right game
Time you were sure you
Aboard the right plane?
This one right here it goes where I say
The journey is allowing me to focus my pain
To spit phrases, molten ice flames
You'll get burned and frozen
That's only quite tame
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move
Brush off my shoulders and
Bop to the mother-ship
Bumping some other shit
Now all the lies will just turn into mumbling
Turn up my mic again
Turn up my mic so they know
Who the fuck it is know when I'm coming in
You just a problem for rap, when I rap
I'm a problem for governments
There's a problem in
Mainstream media coverage
Ffeeding us utter shit
Please keep 'em coming in
This year I'm encouraging anyone with the
Courage to go up against
The system we're stuck up in
And if you ain't with us then fuck if then
Become a pawn or become a king
Become a pauper
They die by the sword of another pawn
Why are we fighting each other for?
Why are we fighting our brothers for?
What's the price of a life
If you young and poor?
Looking online at a life for
Only some can afford i got a son that needs
More so I'm opening doors
I'm hoping he won't say I'm hopeless
That is more dangerous than a
Man who is desperate, broken
Coming back from an injury, did you miss me?
Man'll wanna throw me out like a frisbee
(Where you been fam?)
Wanna know where I've been G?
(yeah, tell me now)
I've been alone, it's a rocky road, Kingsley
It's a rocky road in the
Stories that we're told
Well I'm evolved from the
Places that we've growed
You wasn't there when the
Rental was in arrears
And the bailiffs came to the door
You wasn't there
Didn't witness all the tears
In fact have you ever been poor before?
You sure this ain't Jersey Shore?
This is real life, it is totally raw
Uncle's is going to prison
And half of your role models getting
Their dough in the kitchen
Living right next to the rich kids
One street away but our
Struggle is totally different
I am the man of the house where I'm living
And I'm like 11, I'm destined for prison
I never went though cause I beat the system
And all of my villains is
Proud that I broke tradition
You don't know shit about us
Do not discuss what you cannot sus
Sus is the start of them fuckin' us up
No it wasn't just not enough luck
Better suck it up
Every journey begins with just one step
Turn over the page, open the book, just look
Every journey begins with just one step
Put your foot in front of
The other and just move