Alive

Lyrics

[Verse 1] They say that, you gotta sell something you don't have first So Imma, pretend i'm decent for the whole damn verse But not too long ago I thought nothing could ever be worse Than living life like a stage play that I never rehearsed Cause they say Sing for the moment, they tell you, freeze it and own it We know this, but would you rather be working out or eating a donut? But if you go for the marshmallow you're not a grownup So I'm sitting here bitch made, waiting for shit to show up But every brain cell that I'm spending sitting overthinking Could be the same cell that I'll liquidate with overdrinking Well I've been thinking maybe we got it wrong To be existing in a predictable beat of a song So right now [Chorus] If you're alive put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up East bay put your goddamn hands up Lemme see you put your muthafuckin hands up Yeah, if you're alive put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up Taipei put your goddamn hands up Throw em up to the sky if you feel alive [Verse 2] See life's a mystery, that's why we study history But learning from my screwups has never quite been a fit for me I spent my energy on the major asymmetry In my left brain, fairly uncommon in the industry And I crave fame but I'm jaded by the limiting Framework where famous tends to operate artistically And so I'd stay up running the same words in my head Dreading the fact that I won't catch a break realistically But if the UCs evaluate holistically And if the rap game's saturated statistically Then maybe that means I don't have to live so cynically Cause people flip their shit at a rapper with my ethnicity You'll won't catch me filming concerts on an iphone Live in every minute like i'm crossing over timezones Fuck the status quo I'll make the genre my own Keep writing lyrics that'll get your fucking mind blown [Chorus] Yeah, if you're alive, put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up East bay put your goddamn hands up Lemme see you put your muthafuckin hands up Yeah, if you're alive put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up Taipei put your goddamn hands up Throw em up to the sky if you feel alive [Verse 3] That's what I tell myself, but I'm a perfectionist I wish that being a hedonist was more effortless I wish success was dependent on only cleverness But all this other bullshit makes me think that I ain't meant for this But never mind, I'm feeling now while I'm thinking big Take over the world with just a pen between my fingertips I'll run the marathon, I don't have to sprint to it Cause living's like I'm doing my taxes, I'm fucking intuit [Chorus] Yeah, if you're alive, put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up East bay put your goddamn hands up Lemme see you put your muthafuckin hands up Yeah, if you're alive put your hands up California put your mother fuckin hands up Taipei put your goddamn hands up Throw em up to the sky if you feel alive