Valley of The Shadow ft. FISH Lyrics

Slaving for a dollar

I was pushing dirt off my collar

The wind was a hazard on my days

Similar to all my problems

My brass knuckle journey

Should've had me playin spades with attorneys

But rather im still on I-55

Countin clouds for the sermon

I had fell into a cup made from man

Colors swirled round my head

Prolly the best part of the transition

I had traveled far into a realm

By the time I saw the closest thing to vision

I saw a chair and took the edge

Once I raised my head

The oldest of man

Was starin right into my chest

He possessed my features and raised his eyes To tell me I should take a rest

I thought the man was jokin

If I tried id surely die from my steps

My stomach joined a circus

And my brain short circuited by itself

If I stumbled through the room

I just thought I'd prolly fall to my death

His eyes never wavered out the glance

I never seen colder stones

I could hardly speak

I heard a word through a vine at times fore you go

He can't send you on until you see the full completion

Of your biggest road

That's why you might see your life

Flash fore your very eyes

Before he send you home

The man began to speak

And said I've faced time

You know what I've done

I played the role of Ikaris

And I soared high and flew into the sun

I fought until Goliath stayed down cold

And couldn't throw a punch

I kicked and yelled until the doors fell

I became God where I'm from

I walked among a crowded field of peers

Some enemies some worse

By that i mean some were friends

And knew how they could hit me where it hurt

Anytime I tried to give em a chance

They crossed lines they ain't deserve

So I took revenge until I was the man

And saw em lyin on the curb

I would think back later how trivial

Wars really were that they had made me serve

That included my love cause every flame

That a nigga had a lesson learned

A vixen made a James a loaded Bond

To love and lose the greatest burn

I had faced the music faced the rain

And told em all to die beneath the dirt

But i could never trust and never love

All that fury made me close the curtain

As I see you here in front of me now

I understand my life's purpose

As I'm made in time

I was made to endure the many cuts of all men

When it rains it pours

A saying we share as our hard times come again

As it happens to be we've met once

But this one time may not again

I had prayed in the mirror before this day

I wish I helped a younger him

As a blessing will be

It'll gives you the things

You always wanted in the end

So take you a rest and stay from the wolves

Fore all the darkness takes a win

I was sittin in tears

Until I felt the biggest pulse ever in my head

I had fell to the ground

And slept until the next day felt that I was dead

To my biggest surprise I woke and i remembered

Every word the man said

I knew his soul had really burned

Cause I felt the fire now and then

A hurt young man

I been through things ever since I was a lil kid

In my twenties now

And the weather darker

Than it used to be within my tens

Like the man said I've seen wolf packs

And they all brought a form of sin

So I suppose he was right

And knew about my harder days

Fore i ever did

I still flirt with a couple cups

It's a vice yea I don't pretend

But I guess you could say that I take things

A lil easier when I'm out the zen

If the valley of the shadow creeps again

Maybe I could see myself within

And take the old man's place

And tell my younger self hold on

We can win