KXNG Crooked, Joell Ortiz, Jeweliet , Lin-Manuel Miranda - Ocean Terminal lyrics

Welcome, welcome welcome, welcome

See for everyone who made it
There's a million more of us
Who deflated When the air
Came out of what we thought would be great
And shoot for the stars become the
Next superstar and be famous
Don't follow your dreams, chase it
And make sure no one takes it away from you
But not all of us have that luxury
And due to circumstances
We navigating uncomfortably
And some of thesе decisions that we
Make for thе moment and show up suddenly
Then bite you down the line like
A fish in the ocean's currency
Before you know it
You see your dreams in a distance
Climbing over the horizon that ship
Sailed and you missed it


Feels like treading water
Doing the things that you gotta
Not doing what you wanna
A world that you want no part of
See this for every hoop star around the
Way that ain't go to the A
For every karaoke singer that blows you away
Amazing must be what it's quite
Like to be you
We never needed all them bright
Lights to see you welcome

Welcome, welcome welcome, welcome

You arrived take a look around
This where everything that's ever
Lost can be found
And they find their way to Ocean Terminal

I seen him at Ocean
Terminal with his notebook
Scribbling in the page
Filled with a little rage
Cause now he's middle-aged
Got the grays just chilling up in
This waves as he gazed
At a kid dribbling in this
J's reminiscing on days
He was younger full of hunger
Wanted to be a rap star
Back when he was twenty
Now he's sixty maybe older
And to tell the truth
I don't think I'm as old as his raps are
He been writing since Hip-Hip was
In a baby stroller talking circa Melle Mel
Grandmaster Caz and 'em
He used to imagine going on tour
Having a blast with them
But that's before he got
Jasmine pregnant on accident
Rap isn't paying the bills and
Jasmine is having twins
To put his pen down that was real hard
But he had to get a quote-on-quote, real job
Time flew by now he's retired with grand kids
He picked up his notebook again
Let that man live welcome

Welcome, welcome
Hey let me hear something old man
What you got over there old timer
Welcome, welcome
Old timer? You crazy youngin'
Come here let me show you how
We used to do it

You arrived take a look around
This where everything that's ever
Lost can be found
Dreams don't die, they just re-route
And they find their way to Ocean Terminal

Opportunity knocks
But it's locked from the outside
You crack open the box
Where your fears and your doubts hide
Prep your system for shocks
And on every decision
Let these motherfuckers kick rocks
If they can't see the vision
Because there isn't no competition
You did you're top position
Your mission's accomplished
Isn't it? Listen your job is finished
Think of the warriors you used
To protest and picket with
Think of the kids back home you used
To sing can I kick it with
Think of those golden moments you
Were hoping to capture
Think of your narrow focus
Then open the aperture
The greatest lie that you could tell yourself
Is that you did it by yourself
Now look around beside yourself you see
The folks who loved you picked
The lock when opportunity
Was knocking Your community was
Rocking with you, providence was watching
Bring them with you
Deep down you've always known
Nobody makes it home to ocean terminal alone
Welcome

Welcome, welcome welcome, welcome

You arrived take a look around
This where everything that's ever
Lost can be found
Dreams don't die, they just re-route
And they find their way to Ocean Terminal