Slaine, Cyrus DeShield - Do What You Love lyrics

A glimpse of time from a photograph faded
Boyhood dreams discovered
Look at it I made it
Along the way becoming crooked and hated
For my music was maybe part of what
It took to create it
Old girl, cold world may have made me jaded
Drugs made me crazy, but I stayed creative
When there was no heat
Pumping from my radiators
That was my golden era
Something like my ‘88rs
To all my shady neighbors, gangsters and the
Mental patients I was surrounded by
Thanks for the inspiration
Anxious, intensive pacing
I wrote a dozen records
And risked everything I had
Like it wasn’t reckless
For years I thought that I was
Happy doing drugs and exes
Sipping whiskey ‘til dawn and
Drinking punch for breakfast
A new day is here, I’m through with the drugs
But, I had a premonition tell
Me "Do what you love"

I ain’t got to tell you
How to chase your dreams
If that fire’s burning deep
Inside you just believe and do what you love
Just do what you love

I’ve seen money come and go
Both success and some fame
I let failure put stress in my brain
Yeah, I’ve been gassed up and slept
On and slept on the train
It’s been years I’ve been etching my name
In this game where I kept on
The same steps when enemies came
Off the deep end to leave
Friends on memory lane
Through the passage of the past
I was mastering my craft
As a street kid I dreamed
Big and then it became
I spent my whole life chasing my art
Trying to beat the same odds I
Had faced from the start
Even though my world was crumbling
And breaking my heart
I put broken pieces together just
To take them apart, damn
What a path that I took
It’s been an ill journey and through it all
I got a passion that is still burning
It’s hard to change when they
Knew what you was
But anything is possible when you
Do what you love

I ain’t got to tell you
How to chase your dreams
If that fire’s burning deep
Inside you just believe and do what you love
Just do what you love

What can I say? I got a
New lease and life is good
Got a future looking bright
Just like it should
‘Cause, I’ve been sober over a year today
And it only gets better from here they say
I dropped the guilt I was
Carrying and taking uphill
Got a new peace of mind they
Don’t make in a pill
Plus I got rid of the hatred
And the waking up ill
Can it last? I don’t know
But, I have faith that it will
And this morning I awoke with the sunrise
And found the strength and the
Hope in my son's eyes
All those knots in my stomach
They got untied
I used to have none, these are some skies
And this is some life from here that we on
Now I’m right back where I belong
In the booth with the mic and my truth
Telling you what it was
Time moves fast and I’m just trying
To do what I love

I ain’t got to tell you
How to chase your dreams
If that fire’s burning deep
Inside you just believe and do what you love
Just do what you love