IAMe - Keep The Change lyrics

Yea if you wanna be all technical about shit

So if I'm Ryan McMahon
Then who the fuck is IAME? Who's Lame?
These aren't multiple personalities
They're just names
The first one I was given
The second one I created
Guess you could say it kinda
Has a deeper meaning
Symbolic of my life, but I don't need it
(Call me Lame)
You could call me what you'd like
My whole life's about output
Product's what I give you
See if you begin to understand
It's just an outlet
Machine's plugging in to charge
Up their batteries
Outsource, downsize, and cut human salary
Technological uprise


Ingenious minds read binary digi-design
We reaching so high, well we
Don't see how vanity is a God
I'd rather stay low
And be a phantom of this opera, broken halo
With presence acknowledged i'm no Asher Roth
I hate taking classes to pursue
What rap hasn't offered

Hats off to anyone who's doing
This and making change
But ain't making enough change to change 'em
Too much of one thing is dangerous
Even change
Keep the change at a natural speed
Or get knocked off your ass and you'll see
Where testing your limit's
Might actually lead
I'd rather be consumed by passion and greed
I'd rather blaze through these
Tracks than these trees

But, I'm an addict, chasing a dragon
And we both flying, man
I'm in my prime like Sape and Luckyiam
And lucky I am, no Lady Gaga
But, I gotta poker face when
I look at my hand
Like Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and Common
Minus the A-List status and
The blood diamonds
But, I'm on this lonely island
And it's no parody
Yea, I'm on a boat and I'm
Sinking with no air to breathe
Literally in over my head, no gills
I'm so chill, party yo
In hundred dollar nose bills
Here's to the life until coke kills
Find me with a heart of ice in a pose still
Clutching cold steal if I'm broke
Still slide this note to the bank teller
(Bitch) fill up the bags
I'll throw you on your ass like
You're Jazz and I'm Philip Banks
You feeling every kick Smoke has
But he ain't blanks

At the end of the day
I'm just thankful to be doing this
I made some change
But not enough change to change me
Too much of one thing is dangerous
Even change
Keep the change at a natural speed
Or get knocked off your ass and you'll see
Where testing your limit's
Might actually lead
I'd rather be consumed by passion and greed
I'd rather blaze through these
Tracks than these trees

But, I'm pretty sure if I didn't smoke
As much weed as I do
I'd have a nervous breakdown and
Be seen on the news
All you'd hear is screams as I shoot
Blue swarms of police in blue
Suit's and news crews i give a fuck
You can think what you choose to
Keep the change
I don't need to change your mind
What was once a statement is now just a name
The truth is I am not me
Anymore and who's to blame
Guess the joke's on them
But the jokes might end
You feel bolts of lightning
Or something like sparks
When I jump right in, Joe Biden my time
Put the M in front of VP
And that title is mine
More exciting than lies, scandals
Crewmate rivalry
(Yo, your name kinda looks like Lame)
Yea, and here's the irony
I retired IAME cause it's just a name
The truth is I am not me anymore
I'm just Lame

Cause that's the side effects of minimum wage
I've made some change
But not making enough change has changed me
Too much of one thing is dangerous
(especially change)
I rushed the change and look
What happened to me
You don't want to have this happen to you
It will knock you on your ass when it do
And it will laugh at you too
Laugh right in your face
And that's your moment of clarity
Selfish douchebag