Know Yourself

Lyrics

[Intro] If you saw the younger you, what would you say to 'em? I would say thanks I would say peace I'd tell them, "Soon child, you are gonna find release" (Release, release, release) [Verse 1] Long time coming to right now, pipe down Lifetime looking for things I thought I'd found already Falling to the floor, like I'm alright, I'm steady I send myself back so I can tell me Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats And I'm still so far from finding peace Every line is a ladder I can climb through timе And I walk straight faced through these winding streets I еat the bread of rhythm, I drink the milk of rhyme I've been carrying a bag of shame that's bigger than me Dragging it behind me, up an endless staircase Until the day I realised This doesn't mean what I think it does I don't need to carry this forever I left it in the clearing by the fire pit and ran Back to the child I was, looking for an elder I saw myself there, I took myself by the hand [Chorus] When I was young, I sought help from my older self I came into my head, I told me know yourself When I was young, I sought help from my older self I came into my head, I told me know yourself (Self, self, self, self) [Verse 2] I was seventeen, heaven seemed close enough to touch I had never been happier, chest against the barrier Watching Wu-Tang My own character starting to bloom I was learning how to capture a room in two phrases Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats Close my eyes and speak down the wires of time I go back to the child I was When I put myself on the line I had to beg for the mic, I had to deal with the ignorance Had to get better, I wanted bigger things These days, those days they are far away Try and catch them in my sights but they start to fade Now I sit amongst crate loads of rhyme books And I think about the days that the time took I thank the little me that put the work in Like, could you picture me when you were spitting sixteens? Surfing the top deck penning them bars Underaged in the clubs taking charge of the mic Precautious little nothing with the world in his sights I am on it now, I will work harder This is peace to the kid I came after (Peace to the kid I came after) The words of the bridge between the present and the past I know myself at last [Chorus] When I was young, I sought help from my older self I came into my head, I told me know yourself When I was young, I sought help from my older self I came into my head, I told me know yourself Know yourself Know yourself [Outro] Soon child, you are gonna find release (Release, release)