Self Made-Token

[00:00.00] [00:01.028]*Intro/choir vocals* [00:49.906]I will always be an individual [00:50.756]For every second I was failing to be fitting in my school [00:52.723]And if I'm here then it's something I cannot do [00:54.189]I just got the wrong people to listen to [00:55.989]'Cause I've been invincible ever since I was told that being different is a gift I hold [00:58.889]Been driven ever since my initial video tryna get into shows on my tippy toes [01:01.988]But I'm a little bit taller now [01:03.356](Here we go!) [01:03.789]Watch what's hurtin' me, drop the urgency, not concerned with the common courtesy [01:07.206]I'll deserve defeat [01:08.406]Never listen to anyone who say they be understandin' me [01:09.706]'Cause I'm still learnin' me [01:11.138]This is constant work for me [01:12.906]I'll put a fire under Mass [01:14.105]The thermometers could not observe or monitor the heat [01:16.506]Hardest worker when y'all refer to me [01:18.655]Over all of the years my team has gotten smaller but I'm not too surprised [01:22.171]No one keep up with how I work, but it's OK, I ain't often to rely [01:25.723]I could ask you all these questions like "how are you gonna stop my crew and I?" [01:29.289]But I'd rather have you question yourself so I can sit here and watch your suicide [01:33.455]I ain't gotta kill 'em and kill 'em and stuff [01:34.772]But if they need to be killed I'll be killin' for a killin' funny [01:36.555]Nobody really wanna be givin' me compliments assumin' that it's gettin' to my head [01:38.822]But that is never how I'm feelin' (OH!) [01:41.108]And when I be comin' around everyone happy as **** [01:42.657]But I never forget anyone who would laugh at this kid [01:44.559]I hope my success burns your tongue everytime you were asked about this shit [01:50.107]*Interlude* [01:59.196]But I gotta remember, I go up, I go down, but right now I'm better [02:01.712]See my mom proud of me, my dad proud of me [02:03.528]My grandma proud of me, grandpa you'd be too [02:05.379]No talkin' 'bout success, I have work for this [02:07.179]'Cause I wanna be strong just like you [02:10.312]Just like you [02:10.762]I'll never give up because you never let it [02:12.611]I still feel your hand when we watch me on TV [02:14.413]I think about you everytime that I'm stressin' [02:16.262]I miss you [02:17.345]And we all do [02:18.127]I wonder what you would say to me watchin' all of this [02:19.944]I could go back years, but I hold back tears when I'm jottin' all of this [02:23.943]Yeah [02:25.211]I just hope to one day hold knowledge like you did [02:27.443]And if the cancer never got you I know you'd wanna be at every one of my shows watchin' me commit [02:30.694]See I'm prepped for this, as a perfectionist [02:32.478]I spend more time on one verse than an essay [02:34.610]Just as important, recording it 'til the morning and surely every performance gotta be best take [02:38.413]Self Made by Token from the album Eraser Shavings: Mixing in the studio, the shit gotta sound beautiful so listen when you usually press pla [02:42.027]Self taught through music, learn myself through music [02:44.061]Better myself through music [02:44.823]I'm self made [02:48.174]Better myself through music, analyse myself [02:50.693]Keep what I like, lose what I don't everytime I do this [02:53.473]And as I write what helps me make it better [02:55.772]As I try to forget what forces me to remember [02:57.657]What's making me invincible everyday, making sure I won't surrender these eraser shavings! [03:02.741]*Outro* [03:14.806]Thank you