(Verse One - Akil Pratt)
Everybody saying stay safe, keep it at home base
Packing guns in the safe round the waist chrome case
Confederates want revenge the rest of us wanna binge
Who's watching? We're being reduced to a profile
My folks still getting profiled with dispositions like we still on a boat now
We losing heroes, pioneers, they say it comes in threes though
We don't cry a tear, hotels and the casinos
Hospitals overrun and he can't get his chemo, and I just heard that screech gone
We can't travel like we want, now everybody gotta pivot
Change our appetites, now we thinking more bout the afterlife
Legacies back to life realities
Now we see that time is our biggest commodity
Praying more we need God to see
How can we keep going possibly
More than ever, know we won't live forever so we

(Hook)
Pay respects to the fallen, sending a text and calling
To all the ones we love now while they still up and walking
Stop rejecting our calling, only passionate projects
Cause we don't know the day when our casket is dropping
Tryna to live in the moment, all while seeking atonement
Same life new mission, I'm tryna move different

(Chant)


(K1NG ELJAY verse)
Life's the funniest teacher
Just tryna breathe when I receive a
Text about a friend of the family that
Married me and Alisha,
Contracted covid-19 and never came off the respirator either
See that R.I.P.? It stings to me
Saw him like a month ago and waved but didn't think to speak
Figured I'd see him later on, he's always on my street
Always nice when on the scene
Always tryna invite us to come over to chat and eat
Ironically last time we spoke he asked about my j-o-b
And at the time it was [T-Mobile] and he laughed at me
Said it was a stepping stone and I agreed
So it makes sense for me to [drop bars in every single line] I speak
I used to care about [reception] more than anything
But now I'd rather be [connected] while the ideas [ring]
I see my [calling] for greatness and whether I [sell(cell)] or not
I plan to follow God's [plan] to my plot, so let us

(Hook)
Pay respects to the fallen, send a text and a call in
To all the ones we love now while they still up and walking
Stop rejecting our calling, only passionate projects
Cause we don't know the day when our casket is dropping
Tryna to live in the moment, all while seeking atonement
Same life new mission, I'm tryna move different...