Witt Lowry - Dreaming With Our Eyes Open lyrics
[Witt Lowry - Dreaming With Our Eyes Open lyrics]
Stuck in the same room, in the same mood
Everybody tried to tell me what I can't do
Everybody tried to tell me that I changed too
And I changed lanes from you lame dudes
It's been a minute since I spilled my pain
Had to take a step back and look
At life in a different way
If you want the change
You gotta be the change
Now we're all the same
Nobody wanna take the reins
Nobody wanna push their brain
Nobody will admit that they're fake
For the facts they claim
You see we're all imperfect in a perfect way
And while we work all day, we all work
No play we are slaved to the loans
And the bills we pay
You consume a double cheese
When the radio play
Mainstream, Mickey D's and my shit gourmet
I've been up for seven days straight
Tryin' to figure out my fate
Tryin' to figure out any way to
Put food on my plate
But I sold a few tee's, so I'm eating today
Okay, doing okay could probably do better
Came home to a letter
Eviction, I know I don't fit
Your description of rapper
But me I'm a clarity through all the chatter
I know everything that glitter ain't gold
Life is the clay, you too busy to mold
Time here is taking it's toll
We spend all our time without passion
And then we get old
Was told I should go quit
But none of you see all the
Letters I get from these kids
Who hurt from within and don't wanna live
And tell me my music is all
That can give them hope
Yeah, all we need is some hope
And they tell me their
Family's broken and broke
They usin' my music to cope
I've been on that boat, held down by a rope
Held down by a string
Y'all looking for things
I'm looking to change the
Perception of people
And all of the beautiful
Things that it brings, yeah
Record in my closet
Don't make enough profit
Y'all used to have morals and
Somehow you lost it
Don't care about the money I
Spend on my coffin
I care bout the people attendin'
And often we're lost, lost in this world
We're selfish to think
"I could find happiness in a girl"
We're selfish to think we're elite
We destroy and deplete
Our whole planet no smarter than squirrels
So who wants to talk about that?
Who wants to talk about facts
Maybe I'd be in your mag
If I added "Tunechi" or "bap bap"
Or I talked about weed when I rap
But fuck all of that, the voice of the youth
The voice of the people
The real and the truth
The voice of the one who had nothin' to lose
I speak for a heart that's been
Broken and beaten and bruised
I'm tired of holes in my shoes
Tired of having to move
Tired of coming unglued
Tired of cleanin' your table
And servin' you food we are what we choose
If only you knew the shit that I've seen
I can't tell if I'm lucid
Or livin' the dream
I don't do it for me, do it all for the team
I remember back livin' when I was a teen
And my grandma, she said I was worthless
And my teachers said I had no purpose
And my mama she said I was perfect
I'm sittin' on Twitter while I
Should be workin' on verses
You're worth it, and when you feel weak
The deeper the trench, the higher the peak
See y'all are a piece of
My legacy 'cause you believe
We can be anything and I wanna be… me
Everybody tried to tell me what I can't do
Everybody tried to tell me that I changed too
And I changed lanes from you lame dudes
It's been a minute since I spilled my pain
Had to take a step back and look
At life in a different way
If you want the change
You gotta be the change
Now we're all the same
Nobody wanna take the reins
Nobody wanna push their brain
Nobody will admit that they're fake
For the facts they claim
You see we're all imperfect in a perfect way
And while we work all day, we all work
No play we are slaved to the loans
And the bills we pay
You consume a double cheese
When the radio play
Mainstream, Mickey D's and my shit gourmet
I've been up for seven days straight
Tryin' to figure out my fate
Tryin' to figure out any way to
Put food on my plate
But I sold a few tee's, so I'm eating today
Okay, doing okay could probably do better
Came home to a letter
Eviction, I know I don't fit
Your description of rapper
But me I'm a clarity through all the chatter
I know everything that glitter ain't gold
Life is the clay, you too busy to mold
Time here is taking it's toll
We spend all our time without passion
And then we get old
Was told I should go quit
But none of you see all the
Letters I get from these kids
Who hurt from within and don't wanna live
And tell me my music is all
That can give them hope
Yeah, all we need is some hope
And they tell me their
Family's broken and broke
They usin' my music to cope
I've been on that boat, held down by a rope
Held down by a string
Y'all looking for things
I'm looking to change the
Perception of people
And all of the beautiful
Things that it brings, yeah
Record in my closet
Don't make enough profit
Y'all used to have morals and
Somehow you lost it
Don't care about the money I
Spend on my coffin
I care bout the people attendin'
And often we're lost, lost in this world
We're selfish to think
"I could find happiness in a girl"
We're selfish to think we're elite
We destroy and deplete
Our whole planet no smarter than squirrels
So who wants to talk about that?
Who wants to talk about facts
Maybe I'd be in your mag
If I added "Tunechi" or "bap bap"
Or I talked about weed when I rap
But fuck all of that, the voice of the youth
The voice of the people
The real and the truth
The voice of the one who had nothin' to lose
I speak for a heart that's been
Broken and beaten and bruised
I'm tired of holes in my shoes
Tired of having to move
Tired of coming unglued
Tired of cleanin' your table
And servin' you food we are what we choose
If only you knew the shit that I've seen
I can't tell if I'm lucid
Or livin' the dream
I don't do it for me, do it all for the team
I remember back livin' when I was a teen
And my grandma, she said I was worthless
And my teachers said I had no purpose
And my mama she said I was perfect
I'm sittin' on Twitter while I
Should be workin' on verses
You're worth it, and when you feel weak
The deeper the trench, the higher the peak
See y'all are a piece of
My legacy 'cause you believe
We can be anything and I wanna be… me