Hey told me I could make it
But when I try to make it,
They just come and take it
Now im feelin naked
Just trying to surive
Day by day inside this matrix
And I wanna know why
I gotta payto stay aliiiiiive

I gotta pay my bills man
I'm feeling overwhelmed damn
This whole world is a scam
Working working for the man
Love my people love my fam
We're not equal in this sham
Land of abortion bans
And only fans
All these weirdos on c-span
Clear out the hood for their floor plans
Yo, the landlord's a con man
Richest country in the world
We got a lowering life span
Drinking kool aide
Wondering how it's cyan?
Rent is killing me,
Maybe itd be cheaper
If i moved to michigaan

They told me I could make it
But when I try to make it,
They just come and take it
Now im feelin naked
Just trying to surive
Day by day inside this matrix
And I wanna know why
I gotta payto stay aliiiiiive

Im paying rent to to live in
A glorified tin can
Im not winning but I
Aint telling people on my instagram
I remember cooking powder
We got wrapped inside Saran
Scaling grams hand to hand
Had compressors, window fans
Used the spoon to scoop up bundles
Just surviving in the jungle
Any day can be a rhumble
Always humble
With my head up on a swivel
When existence feeling brittle
Any moment you can fumble
Many crumble
Before I met him lost an uncle
To the streets he was a fiend
Love my cousins
Primos kept it real with me
Playing dominoes throughout
The summer heat
Really it helped me mentally
To deal with that poverty

They told me I could make it
But when I try to make it,
They just come and take it
Now im feelin naked
Just trying to surive
Day by day inside this matrix
And I wanna know why
I gotta payto stay aliiiiiive

I gotta stay alive
Keep it hopeful for tomorrow
To be addressing all our sorrows
Not to build a world on morals
Where the morals are selective
From the micro to the macro
Its all connected
Im an immigrant thats coming
On caravans
Running all throughout the desert
Ducking bombs in Palestine
Escasping NATO out in Yemen
Im the project nigga poltting
How to liberate all children
Of all ghettos
Im in trailer parks I'm building
Future visions
Im in Ukraine Im in Haiti
Im Congo on the side of the civilians
Im the workers in the factories
Always proving their resilience
Im inside the cobalt mines
Im the spirit of resistance
Im the rust accumulating
On machinery they're using for their drilling
Yo we gotta stay perceptive
Notice details that are subtle
As build we with new perspectives
And we rectify the lessons
They told me I could make it
But when I try to make it,
They just come and take it
Now im feelin naked
Just trying to surive
Day by day inside this matrix
And I wanna know why
I gotta pay to stay aliiiiiive