(Chorus x2)
And I can hear the time ticking away/
And I'm picking my brains as I figure my fate/
To try win at a game we all lose though/
We all lose though//
(JND)
I can hear the time tickin', but I don't wanna listen now/
Or sit around as the sand grains trickle down/
See the glass break, spill 'em out/
And what's your life worth? A lot more than this amount/
Don't wanna cross swords with pop sorts with big accounts/
No beats with the Jigga bounce, dig a different sound/
Keep it underground; Vin Diesel prison bound/
And build my vision out of anything my little town has offered me/
Be it success or loss, at least I haven't given up on what I wanna see/
I know tomorrow's not promised, and we shouldn't forget that/
Still forgive those who trespass on your fresh patch/
Do what you can in the time that you get, that's/
Something I'll stress as more important to heads that/
Bumped boom bap, probably listened to Chess' raps/
Cos they might understand where my heads at//
(Chorus x2)
And I can hear the time ticking away/
And I'm picking my brains as I figure my fate/
To try win at a game we all lose though/
We all lose though//
(ExP)
Bin fightin' a losin' battle with the clock since day one/
But sleep under the same moon, wake under the same sun/
Pace myself but someone needs to find/
Something to stop my cells replacing one another with a weaker type/
...Can never achieve a peaceful mind/
Knowing that my consciousness is to cease and die/
I don't get any comfort knowing I coulda bin a meteorite/
And could go on to become part of a genius or a piece of pie/
Please define my state of being, my eyes were made for seeing/
My lungs were made for breathing, my brain was made for me and I hate to waste an eon/
Waiting for a reason to make myself believe in the afterlife/
Like I should sacrifice my wants and needs/
My appetite for songs and beats/
And graft till night for the constant greed/
Of some Godless thief and stress about it till I've lost my sleep/
I just want to dream!/
It's a nonsense scheme/
Last century the whole working to live thing served for a purpose/
But I've researched it it's worthless/
We were basic and were herded to churches to be told without worship you'll worsen/
But writing verse is my service/
My home and family is where and who I prefer to do work with/
Until the day I'm murdered by the clockwork turning and burned in a furnace//
(Chorus x2)
And I can hear the time ticking away/
And I'm picking my brains as I figure my fate/
To try win at a game we all lose though/
We all lose though//
(Addverse)
And with each day the plot thickens/
There's no escape from the clock ticking/
And time takes from what's given/
As I find my way, living like life is infinite when/
Really it's as finite as twilight twinkling/
Everything that lives has to die, time’s dwindling/
Light waves vibrate and cycles begin again/
Till the day comes when your mind’s in oblivion/
Some say with Christ, others say we die ignorant/
Every now and then we get an Einstein flippin’ it/
Darwin took life and design on a different tip/
A little chance given time now we’re killing it/
6 days divine on the 7th try chill a bit/
We're just little blip, blind to the bigger picture/
Passing us by as we're still tryna figure/
With kaleidoscope eyes why and what we now think it is/
Innocently playing I spy like some little kids//
(Outro x2)
And I can hear the time ticking away/
As I figure my fate/
We all lose though/
And I can hear the time ticking away/
To try win at a game/
We all lose though//