Canibus - Nobody lyrics
[Canibus - Nobody lyrics]
You know this rap game is
A lot like high school
And high school is a lot like life
You see in life, you got to do things to set
Yourself apart from your peers
You need to identify the qualities that
Separate you from those around you
After all, isn't that what most people spend
They lives trying to accomplish?
Wouldn't we all want somebody
Somewhere later on down
The line to remember the things
That were different about us?
Don't you understand? The more you fit in
The less you're noticed that's how it is
For anyone to walk through life unnoticed
As if they never mattered
Could be a punishment worse than death
And at the same time
That punishment is the only way
You could truly be free
Free from the things you want
People to remember about you
But also free from the things
You want them to forget
I don't know if that freedom
Exists for me anymore
And even though I dream about
What it would be like it's just a dream
Because I realize now more than ever
That I can't have my cake and eat it too
No one can and as time goes on
We will always be loved by
Some and hated by others
And whether the people who talk bad
About you know it or not
They really save you from obscurity every
Time they mention your name
You see, anytime anybody ever
Talks about you
Either directly or indirectly
They put a quarter in your immortal meter
They keep you alive
Whether they want to or not
They practically do the opposite of
What they want to do
Which is forget you i dedicate this song
To the day
When you motherfuckers finally figure it out
And the day that you bury me
And erase the memory of me here lies a man
Who became forgotten to the world
In his search to the key for immortality
He never made an impact, he changed nothing
And his words meant nothing
He never contributed to the rap game
He never gave you anything to talk about
He never existed
And he never made a difference
His name was nobody!
A lot like high school
And high school is a lot like life
You see in life, you got to do things to set
Yourself apart from your peers
You need to identify the qualities that
Separate you from those around you
After all, isn't that what most people spend
They lives trying to accomplish?
Wouldn't we all want somebody
Somewhere later on down
The line to remember the things
That were different about us?
Don't you understand? The more you fit in
The less you're noticed that's how it is
For anyone to walk through life unnoticed
As if they never mattered
Could be a punishment worse than death
And at the same time
That punishment is the only way
You could truly be free
Free from the things you want
People to remember about you
But also free from the things
You want them to forget
I don't know if that freedom
Exists for me anymore
And even though I dream about
What it would be like it's just a dream
Because I realize now more than ever
That I can't have my cake and eat it too
No one can and as time goes on
We will always be loved by
Some and hated by others
And whether the people who talk bad
About you know it or not
They really save you from obscurity every
Time they mention your name
You see, anytime anybody ever
Talks about you
Either directly or indirectly
They put a quarter in your immortal meter
They keep you alive
Whether they want to or not
They practically do the opposite of
What they want to do
Which is forget you i dedicate this song
To the day
When you motherfuckers finally figure it out
And the day that you bury me
And erase the memory of me here lies a man
Who became forgotten to the world
In his search to the key for immortality
He never made an impact, he changed nothing
And his words meant nothing
He never contributed to the rap game
He never gave you anything to talk about
He never existed
And he never made a difference
His name was nobody!