♪ [beatboxing] ♪
- (♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
- ♪ The walls are grey
♪ I can't believe the walls are grey
♪ I know what the caged bird choked on
♪ and proceeded to meet in the hall to pray
♪ I wasn't even given permission to take
♪ a second of intermission to call and say
♪ despite an impressive effort to keep our love off
♪ the record, my mother is into target play
- (♪ Oooh, oooh) - Diji: BECAUSE IT'S DIFFERENT.
♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ Imma make sure that you go far
♪ even if I gotta power lift every low bar
WELL, SHE'S NOT YOUR KID. CAUSE THIS IS MY HOUSE.
♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ Imma make sure that you go far
♪ even if I gotta power lift every low bar
- ♪ What a plot turn, how I'm guarding
♪ the door and don't see the lock turn
♪ now I'm staying up and am bordering nocturne
♪ cause I couldn't write anymore--
♪ can't produce from a crop burn ♪
♪ and you better believe I said it quicker than I was
♪ thinking when my momma lil hammer came down
♪ "I hate you" spit across the room sent me
♪ and my bags to my dad's across town
- (♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
- Diji: ♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ Imma make sure that you go far
♪ even if I gotta power lift every low bar
♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ Imma make sure that you go far
♪ even if I gotta power lift every low bar
- (♪ Oooh, oooh)
[parents arguing outside]
(♪ Oooh, oooh)
[phone swooshes as it sends texts]
- ♪ It was about 11 past heaven in February
♪ when pops told me he didn't care about my crimes
♪ In fact, shorty could slide
♪ if I kept my grades stacked and I did my time
♪ but a little birdy who had clearly never choked
♪ flew a little feather through the funnel with a note
♪ told my momma I was trippin- dippin on the low, and so
♪ I wouldn't see him again until I was grown
- (♪ Oooh, oooh)
[phone chimes for incoming text messages]
[chime]
[water dripping]
[water pouring]