A Man Like Me Lyrics

A Man Like Me - Adraxx

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I try to dwell on them, the things I take delight in

Dark memories try to cloud them, I’m not even trying to fight it

I mean, a couple great scenes but it’s not always been groovy

I’ll embrace it all; the good, bad, cheerful and the gloomy

Dreading a twisted life, man, I can't think straight here

A lot on my head, the more I live I know life’s not fair

Combing through the days, nightmares they never play rare

Try to brush them off but with my misery they always concur

I put my life in rhyme, a verse at a time

E dey fi b but chale e dey vex sometimes

But say that be life, small small man dey survive

If I die before I wake, what would it read - my life and times?

I sit, stare and look at life from all the different angles

Chao things dey man for handle

Skeletons in my closet and elephants in the room

Staring back at me and patiently waiting there just to hand Ls

Put your best foot forward but I can’t even find my feet

Everyone sees potential but you’re the only one blind to it

I crawl to keep it moving, I see time fly by me

I don’t want to end up being the one that had it all but blew it

All these heights not attained

Kojo can’t wait for days we’ll laugh at shit we overcame

Boys do some things them no be proud of just to numb the pain

We go talk that one another day

I’ll pat me on the back, won’t wait for you to do it

Can’t expect everyone to believe in what you’re building

I owe it to myself to see my dreams fulfilled

And to all the people cheering and waiting on me to win

Got a lot to live and strive for

Got a few people I’m willing to go the extra mile for

Doing better at linking every now and then in light of

The severed ties fingers can’t count that I’m paying the price for

Still out here trying to find purpose

Can’t just be out living life reckless

I pick myself right up for the next hurdle

They’re shifting the finish line, wanna see us going in circles

My mama’s only child, only one running the relay

Cross the finish line, whatever it takes

Fill up a big ass pension safe

Why I put in work and then some, hoping my dreams sail

Why I get behind the mic for your approval

I lay these tracks and tell all these tales hoping I move y’all

What started as an outlet for my demons’ reproval

Maybe it’ll take your pain away, I know we’ve all been through it all

Yeah. And Eli thinks it’s TMI

But for me and the other guy, it’s therapy for him and I

For those days I get up and ask “why even try?”

It’s the only thing keeping me alive