Living Alive - Spose

My girl wants to buy a house

But my credit so bad that I couldn’t get a loan to buy a couch

I could tell that she’s disappointed when I pull the bong out

Letters from the IRS arriving at mom’s now

Man, I guess that’s just what happens here

Mid-twenties trying to salvage a rap career

Skip doing taxes to grab a beer, haven’t worked out in like half a year

Sleep past the aurora, don’t give an iota

Can’t afford the aioli, no heart beat how my aorta

I gotta stop this shit and be prosperous like a pamphlet, brochure

Because my predicament, it’s sickenin', it’s gruesome like a growth spurt

On this road to ruin, I don’t see no stop sign

But this car works and I’m not dead and it’s sunrise, so I got time because

Now’s not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive

Now’s not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive

It’s not too late

If it was, I’d give up right now but I could do a lot today

I could quit it all cold turkey and I could make a hot soufflé

You see, fate is in my pinchers

I could reach far like timbers or get feet charred by cinders

But I’m living a lie, living a lie

Will I win or lose?

That’s up for me to decide

I’m not infallible, nope, I’m the sum of my flaws

And I know my future’s as malleable as gum in my jaws

And I know each day is valuable, so I’m taking my chances

My insight is that you can’t get enlightened from lampin'

Even if you’ve been wrong all your life, you could still get shit right

If you’re not at death and you got one breath then you could still see the light

I’m pulling over on the bridge, I see a kid

The look in his eyes says, «I don’t wanna live»

Then I hop out of the whip and I walk through the traffic

He says, «I can’t do it» and then I looked right at him, I told him

«Now's not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive

Now’s not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive»

Look back at the path, are there puddles of blood?

And lakes of tears in the tracks?

Is there darkened perspiration in the nook of your arm?

If not

I expect to see a look of alarm, because you haven’t been tryin'

You’ve been maxin' 'n' slackin', you’ve been roastin' 'n' coastin'

You’ve been chillin', buildin' sandcastles next to the ocean

Man, the seas are risin', I see a diseased horizon

You’re gonna be ghost up in that moat if we don’t see you flyin'

Everything is swell up in your cerebellum

You make so many excuses that it’s too bad you can’t sell 'em

You roll out like a dice game, when the fight came

Opportunities missed like a light rain

You worry 'bout the future while you live in the past

I know it’s lonely at the top plus the middle is packed

So what I like to do, is trudge from the morning till the night is through,

in my hikin' boots

And they grip and grind and they slip and slide but every day, my height is new

I’m telling you

Now’s not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive

Now’s not too late

To start fresh today

So I could stop living a lie

And I could start living alive