Half As Long // Twice As Bright

Lyrics

[J Roc] Reaching for the stars, we'll catch 'em all with a skynet Terminator, always on top, numerator Y'all don't feel me, subterranean genius, they say break a leg I get on stage and become a paraplegic Little light of mine, vibrant Everything is in alignment Looping Orion through Levi's jeans, we are shining - [E-Fav] - like the pages of a rap book starring a rising icon Glare (glow), Orion, ass grip with my sight on Bitch slap you with my palm, thinking this pistol ain't on Mama don't be alarmed, thinking your son's Akon [Ilajide] Jihad, this the a-bomb, more spirit than séance I do it for my Mama when she told me bout my J gone Distorted out of sorts have to box us up like crayons Reflect the shine, Ray-Ban, you're drying out like raisin [Hook] We shining half as long, twice as bright tonight We shining half as long, twice as bright tonight So put a fist in the air Huey Newton the fight It's CSF in this bitch, and we're rocking it right We rock on and on an on and on On and on and on and on (x3) [E-Fav] Baby we shining, we own it Live for the moment, inhale in the smoke And driftin' into a coma, this the potentous Dopest since the Tribe CQ, coming soon Nigga blazing through a speaker near you, spit that triple haiku Why you act fool, we are dope times two [Ilajide] Typhoon with a spoon, what we're cooking in the room Is incredible, immeasurable, by any volume Here we go, catching my shit is velociraptic Attack it and now it's whipping them to five star splashing Mama I know you gasp 'em but you gotta know what got 'em We common denom' 'em when rhymin', we got 'em on the bottom and rot 'em [J Roc] If you gon' read our palms, do it with Ray-Bans on Future bright as a quasar What you need know, we in a time crisis of dreams Nigga reload, shoot it outside of the screen Only fall asleep to beats, take this instrumental Ambien Gun play ambience, surround sound ambulance The story of the city, watch our plot reload Peep my body at work, gold like 3PO Everything I compose is full of gold The 14 carat sonnet, go ahead, pawn it out [Hook] [Laz] I shine brighter, make them squint at the writer My heart beat to a beat, you can't beat what's inside it Keep an ear to the street, you can hear when I'm rhyming That my mind like a mine I got to blow to remind them People shot the kid, turn his life into something It's like my Mom and Dad fuckin', how I grew up from nothing It's nothing, so when I'm pushing the bucket Cause the city and a deck can make a nigga some ducats Cash rules everything around me CREAM, get the money, now these groupies all surround me Now I gotta question why you even ask about me When I'm out in public, know you niggas tryna gas me See, I put my heart and soul in people that I'm fucking with Fuck 'em then, feeling like I'm selling to the celibate Settling (never), to the top we gonna see You can catch a tan cause you know we gonna be [Hook]