COMMON GROUND Lyrics

Writing down what comes what the pen decides

Burning in my belly like appendicitis

Student of the craft I'm the pen disciple

Read up on my thoughts that the pen deciphers

Put away the fears that I tend to heighten

Dedicate my heart had to fend off titans

Sticking to my walls like a feisty lichen

Now I wait and watch as the psyche ripens

Waddled through the bad and made the best of it

Took what I had a right to what was left of it

Don't know if it's worth it made an estimate

Figured in the end it's worth a test ain't it

Shouts to the shots I shot and to the shots I missed

And to the shots I took thereafter to stay optimist

Uh

That's how it often is

Til' we in coffins underground like Hobbits is

Dabbled in happiness took crash courses in pain

Started a masterclass

Of never looking back and making sure that I ain't livin' in vain

Peace

Know quite well imma fight back

Kicking it with two left feet on the right track

Pushing on as long as it might last

Deep breath in like it's my last

Know quite well imma fight back

Kicking it with two left feet on the right track

Pushing on as long as it might last

Deep breath in like it's my last

Took a step back and saw closer like a dolly zoom

Saw the face in the mirror found I could call it truth

Loose evidence yes but not- solid proof

Building my case in solitude

Narrowed it down to a broader meaning

Got a ticket from my brain 'cos my thoughts were speeding

Hoping dreaming I become that man that my folks believe in

Atone for my faults act a way that needs no redeeming

Wealthy soul 'cos I sold my demons

Textbook aside son I'm switching up the narrative

Quest to quench my thirst kicked off my a new kind of catalyst

Cross no one this dude riding parallel

Fixed the attitude

No more looking up to others I'm looking forward to me

Rich spirit there's nothing I can't afford to be

Fresh air what I ought to breathe

Blessed with being that one guy that's a little different

Working on myself every day I can

Learning is my takeaway from being ignorant

So I always stay better than I am

Know quite well imma fight back

Kicking it with two left feet on the right track

Pushing on as long as it might last

Deep breath in like it's my last

Know quite well imma fight back

Kicking it with two left feet on the right track

Pushing on as long as it might last

Deep breath in like it's my last

And that's the thing about leaving home

It's not an instantaneous change, it's a process

That new house you're gonna move into isn't instantly gonna be your home

That new person you meet isn't instantly gonna be your family

And finding something out about yourself

Isn't instantly gonna turn you into this whole other person

It takes time to deconstruct what you've believed yourself to be

And to find common ground between what you want yourself to be

And what you really are