SoulChef, Marchitect - The Riddle lyrics

First you crawl on four legs
Then two legs upright
And then you got a cane in
The rain of the sunlight
Three stages but we all live one life
I'm thankful everyday and hey I
Can't get enough life

You crawl before you walk
You babble before you talk
I came to age in Delaware but
I was born in New York
The second youngest sibling of
Five I love sports
I used to race my toy cars on the front porch
I got a little older took the bus to school
I got a little bad and
Thought the cuts was cool
In the summer hop your fence
And bum rush your pool
I broke a lot of bones plus the rules


But these little lessons took me
To the next stage
A life you could say that I was coming of age
The first chapter's filling up the page
Had a crush on K Hub but
That was in the fifth grade
Used to love it when she would do
Her hair up in them two braids
Never said a word I guess
That I was too afraid
Her summer was forever and it
Seemed it never end
When I lost the only mic I
Lost my first best friend

First you crawl on four legs
Then two legs upright
And then you got a cane in
The rain of the sunlight
Three stages but we all live one life
I'm thankful everyday and hey I
Can't get enough life

The next chapter's about what happens after
You grow up and you're looking
For a path to follow and mine was rap music
It chose me I didn't really have to choose it
Yeah, I went from demos at my momma's
To traveling the globe and catching
Checks with the comma's
But in the process I had
To deal with the drama
It comes along with being
Grown and responsibilities
Consequences of your actions
Your time on a planet can
Get reduced like a fraction
I stay grounded can't slip or lose traction
I get busy when it's time for some action
I ran up outta house mid flames
It even burned up my records by Rick James
But, I'm happy to say
I could have another day
A five along fire could've went the other way

First you crawl on four legs
Then two legs upright
And then you got a cane in
The rain of the sunlight
Three stages but we all live one life
I'm thankful everyday and hey I
Can't get enough life

I wanna be like my dad visiting grandkids
Retiring and laying back where the sand is
Grey up in my beard
Getting my Kenny Rogers on
Knowing when to walk away like
A Kenny Rogers song if I get the time to
Know that I'm inclined to
Lend a helping hand so the
Loneliest can climb up
Each one teach one, we can all be taught
Knowing that my life ain't
About what I bought
It's more about what I did
More about how I live
Now I'm walking with a cane
Knowing that's how it is
Starting generations yeah and there after
They can turn life's teardrops into laughter
My wife stuck by me
Her hair got gray streaks
A long way from where my momma made me
But that's in God's hands it's one big maybe
I look up to the sky
When the ground gets shaky

First you crawl on four legs
Then two legs upright
And then you got a cane in
The rain of the sunlight
Three stages but we all live one life
I'm thankful everyday and hey I
Can't get enough life

Yeah, I wanna take this time
To give a shoutout to the ones
Who came before me, to the ones
That are here with me
To the ones that are gonna be
After me, ya know what I'm saying, for
Sho, big shout to the homie SoulChef, i
Think we did it with this Passport thing
Man, taking it around the globe, and we out