Byron Henderson - Memento Mori lyrics

Back when I was 18
I felt I would never make it
Losing faith in myself
No faith in a Heaven lately
I would over think and then drown
In a pool of self doubt
When I was stuck in a slump
Who could I trust to help now?
But now they look to me for advice
As if I’m no longer the one
That’s never sleeping at night
Look in the mirror
Wonder where did my anxiety go
I kind of miss it
I guess this is like the highest of lows
But I ain’t worried years ago, I was lost
Rapping for people I knew never
Cared about my health
Dawg, all they wanted was bars
Now you think I ain’t confident
Just because I don’t ooze it


I only doubted myself due to knowing
That most of you did
Still it’s all love, dawg
I don’t hold grudges
I taught myself love, dawg
I don’t owe nothing
What you know bout hearing voices
Come from all four walls
As you start to shut down like
A car when it stalls
So when I get to feeling as if
Y’all ain’t got no faith in me
That’s when it sparked the feeling that this
World just ain’t the place to be
But nah, she taught me better than that
Shoot for the Sun like Steve Nash
Don’t you ever go back
You’ve still got work to do
Show these people why they
Should believe in you
Cause you know that won’t happen unless
You give them a reason to
2017, Sincerely Yours was a murder
Probably album of the year
But who cares when nobody heard
It’s getting crazy out here
All these people disappearing
Can’t help but feel the cops
Are getting lazy out here
Nah, I’m just a baby though
Maybe I’m in my feelings
Or maybe they’re killing us before the
Day we have to kill them

‘Merica the beautiful
Everyone is thinking like a dead man
Live it up, but what about the future though?
By any means, get the money
We don’t want the fame
Y’all think it’s something sweet till it
Leaves you numb the same

Try to name a rapper more honest
You’d probably want to stop
Closest they’ll be is 99
Cause I’ve got a 100 locked
I’ve been overlooked for so long
And if I cared, I’d probably complain
But maybe I’m smart enough to
Know that my time, It’s not
Got to keep it pushing
Ain’t no G, but I move in silence
Ain’t no savage, and I won’t
Fake it for your media, This is Byron
People say that Rap is dying, huh
Now they’ve got to see me only grew to 5’8"
But y’all done woke a sleeping giant
Life is similar to a game
Because if you can’t control her
Doesn’t matter who you are
They’ll box you in fore it’s over
I told you, off rip
Our goal is defeat the gutter
Then feed the gutter
Our souls will make the reaper
Stutter with this off switch
Every single new year, the ball drops
I look at rappers, thinking, why
We still waiting for y’alls, Huh
You ain’t know that we’re rebels
The kind of thoughts to make these
Folks put me below sea level
But not before I three-peat
Put two and two together, what
You need a lob?
We’re already paying cops to try
And do a God’s job
They’re getting technical
Slick with the words that they use
Like y’all ain’t know that Hollywood
Is a world of abuse
Dudes become so eager for
Something to vote on
But you’ve got two heads and
You’re using them both wrong
There’s a line in the sand
I pray that you fail to cross it
Cause the screws that I’m missing will
Be the nails in your coffin
I often think about Matt
Was he really meant to die?
Were those bullets like starships
Were they meant to fly?
Kels and Aaliyah know my
Love will never yield
I would say till death does us
Part, but it never will, For real

‘Merica the beautiful
Everyone is thinking like a dead man
Live it up, but what about the future though?
Look at my generation and I
Wonder where the love’s at
I look at my people and I
Wonder where the love’s at
I look at my country and I
Wonder where the love’s at
One for all till we all
Die and the guns blast
Hanging from the tree of might
Might make it
Might not but at least I put up a fight
They don’t hear me though
Nah, they don’t hear me though
They don’t hear me

Gotta know all your gotta knows
Gotta know when to let it be
Gotta know all your gotta knows
Gotta know when to let it be
Gotta know all your gotta knows wait

That’s how this goes how can I explain this?
Um, when the pain is all gone
When everything is gone
If you still have the privilege to feel
As far as I’m concerned
There’s still something left
And I don’t ever want to
Leave without expressing that
When you truly love someone, or
Something, you hold onto it, You cherish it
I feel I haven’t done the greatest job of
That because I’ve been gone for long
But now that I’ve reached the end
Of this road to recovery
Y’all gon get these bars for free

My generation better wake up, nah
We ain’t safe just yet
Cause y’all don’t scrap
Y’all shoot but y’all sway with the tech
Murking the innocent youth
Using your dumb pride for sin
They had their son set
Never to see their son rise again
And I’m exhausted
I know you take pride in where you’re from
But to murder for nothing, y’all
Are either blind, deaf, Or dumb
Had a question for my ex
That I’d rather be answered
She’s a Gemini, but her personality’s cancer
Some people are like dead weight
Ain’t worth stressing cut them off
Regroup and grow like a Namekian
Glad I’ll never need a clip
To load and shoot you that’s the difference
I don’t have to pick a low to stoop to
Wonder why everybody’s got to
Shoot their shot
Cause when these bullets go inwards
It’s even more of a look of surprise
When these N words don’t die
So tell me what’s more important
Lives or your pride?
It’s like we spend our whole
Lives trying to avoid Hades
Even if it’s by an inch
We’re all trying to ascend up to Heaven
But here’s a lesson
The Devil already let us in
We’re trying to escape even though we
Know that he’ll let us sin
Better come to grips with your short comings
I used to run track
But some of y’all do more
Running and never come back
Become a detriment to yourself
You just wait till you can put
The weight on somebody else
I know a couple angels I miss
That the Devil sent to me but dawg
It’s common sense the relationships
Weren’t meant for me egos got in the way
And maybe I wasn’t meant to
See these false Gods
Sent back to the one they pretend to be
I’ve got a message for 'em
And I know they’ve read it
I’m trying to climb out this
Hole before it becomes home
Folks walk around broken
The world thinking they’re close to you
Try to help and you’re treated like that
Ain’t what you’re supposed to do
I’d rather lose my first fight
And be left breathing than win
Get shot and my parents be left grieving
Though I’ll never love again
I still love Kels and Aaliyah
And if you’re looking up to me, so be it
If I succeed, rejoice but keep the millions
Only Em I care about happens
To be from Detroit
We keep it real around here
Even through anxiety
Even through depression we look
In the mirror and
We express how we feel around here
You feel some type of way
Then you’d better vent (yup)
I’m only fighting demons cause
I’m heaven sent (wait)
And don’t compare me
I’m just here to even odds
If I performed in a prison
Bet I’d really raise the bars
Wonder why I miss anxiety dawg?
It helped me feel ish, but now I’m just numb
I just get on the mic and kill ish
But Byron ain’t dumb
I won’t try to front like these other guys
Teachers never called me stupid
I showed them otherwise
Heart of gold, with a mind full of sin
Dudes say they’re bout a dollar
But the dimes reel them in time and again
I’d rather die than pretend I’m
Ok when I’m really not
Cause nine times out of ten
Bianca and Nay’ll cry if suicide does me in
I ain’t got to remind why when
I rhyme, it’s for them, Kels, And Novelle
Diamonds don’t supply the same feeling
Just remember, that you have to die
But don’t forget you’re living don’t forget
Don’t be afraid