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.​.​.​pride? [prod. K1NG ELJAY / Phrasure]

from Second Page: Journals of K1NG ELJAY by K1NG ELJAY

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[Verse I]

Funny how these things come to light /
Journal entries I've kept inside..../
I just want to be great in life.../
But it's times like this I despise... /
But I realize that my words have power, my /
Words have meaning and I mean it all when I /
Say sometimes I don't think I deserve any /
Thing that falls from the hand of God i mean I /
Know I'm trippin but just hear me listen cuz it /
Took a minute just to get the balls to up and /
Say I'm stupid and I make mistakes whenever /
I attempt to try to do it all on my own /
... I'm my biggest critic, swear I/
Care too much when my name is on it /
Took two years for me to write these bars only to /
Scrap the concept in a stupid moment /
Used to want to be a poet first, and so I /
Spent a couple days finessing poems /
Turned the scheme into a song at 12 and then I /
Called my fam into my room to perform it /
It ain't quite go how I envisioned since my /
Sister trashed it said it was boring /
Switched the vision, started penning fiction and the /
Family knew I had the stories /
Even still I'd be in the bathroom reading /
To myself wishing I could record me /
Thank God that dream ain't die with me I /
Don't know how I would've lived with that

[Verse II]

Funny how these things come to light /
.....come to light.../
Journal entries I've kept inside..../
...kept inside.../
I just want to be great in life.../
...great in life../
But it's times like this I despise... /
...I despise but I /
Realize that my words have power, my /
Words have meaning and I mean it all when I /
Say sometimes I don't think I deserve any /
Thing that falls from the hand of God i mean I /
Know I'm trippin but just hear me listen cuz it /
Took a minute just to get the balls to up and /
Say I'm stupid and I make mistakes whenever /
I attempt to try to do it all on my own /
... And I know that.... And I'm /
Sad our relationship sunk for real, and I /
Had another track I was placing here but /
realized I don't wanna be the cause for tears so I /
Wrote this verse, and I hope you hear it, God /
Knows you support me like everyone else, even /
Though I'm blocked and your number's deleted I don't /
Think there's closure ‘til I say it myself, so.../
I'm sorry for letting you get to know the wrong side of me first....
I'm sorry for not being firm when I knew that we wouldn't work../14
...I'm sorry that it took me this long to finally say it in a verse..../
I guess the dream of us being cordial just died, I guess I gotta live with that.

[Verse III]

....I'm mad excited cuz I'm /
Home, about to make music now, /
I'm with Richard Daniel - who was just announced for /
Secret Stages and we dumbing out - /
he's discussing plans when I get a text from my /
Wife, thought she had just went out /
but the message read "LJ do you even want a wife?"....
And everything that I ever feared came /
Rushing back because she's everything and each /
Time I rap about someone important /
somehow, someway they up and leave but I don't /
Care bout that, I just care about her, she's that /
Motivation when I pen and do this but /
Then she hits me with another text saying /
She feels like she's always second to music no /
Way she meant that, she can't mean that /
Funny how these things come to light at the /
Weirdest times, I ask her why she never /
Told me she felt that way inside /
Her response was selfless, and without question /
she knew when we married I'd be great in life /
but there's so many times when I'm chasing dreams where I /
Neglect and that’s what she despises /
Look I realize that my words have power, my /
Words have meaning and I mean it all when I /
Say sometimes I don't think I deserve you cuz i /
Know you were sent as a gift from God i mean I /
Know I'm trippin but just hear me listen cuz it /
Took a minute just to get the balls to up and /
Say I'm stupid and I make mistakes whenever /
I attempt to try to do it all on my own.

credits

from Second Page: Journals of K1NG ELJAY, released December 7, 2017
In order of appearance...
- inspired by my sister,.
- inspired by Ms. Jackson (I am for real. lol),
- inspired by my wife, and...
- inspired by Fantasia and Missy Elliott making timeless music together.
- special thanks to Phrasure for the additional keys. Love you, man.

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K1NG ELJAY Birmingham, Alabama

I just want to make music you can feel.

Based in Alabama for now, but feel free to check out the releases on the page (which are all available for free), and tell a friend to do the same thing.

Feel free to pay if you rock with it, but no pressure.

I appreciate you for even giving this a chance. I won't disappoint, I promise.

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