Mama’s Home

Lyrics

[Chorus: McKinley Dixon] Tread softly, please tread so softly These demons haunt me, Mama keep them off me She says, "Everything gon' be okay" Whispers to me, "I know that it hurts Sometimes cuts could use more dirt" The songs they sing in the jump ropes They have heart Tread softly, please tread so softly These demons haunt me, Mama keep them off me She says, "Everything gon' be okay" Whispers to me, "I know that it hurts Sometimеs cuts could use more dirt" The songs thеy sing in the jump ropes They have heart, have heart [Verse 1: Alfred.] The song that I bear And I bear it because my mama The one who taught it And still for her, I work for honor I walked along the water Revealed the holes in my skin Just so these motherfuckers know who I am And I'm a motherfucking human, rapping lucid on the harp I'm prolly down to die for my art I definitely don't know what I'm doing And I'm moving through the bullshit by my prayers and angels Close to familiar But at best I'm a stranger But a seat at the table Eat without saying grace That's prolly why I'm not graceful And end up falling on face Trippin', and niggas trippin' Niggas wish upon a nigga Live vicariously even if it kill em Nigga tread soft, my heart so light Will it really be okay when it's dark at night? We don't know the know And really grow so much Dreaming bout being already there When you so close to touch, yo, nigga, tread soft Nigga tread soft Nigga tread, tread soft Nigga tread soft [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2: McKinley Dixon] I just wanna live forever I just wanna live forever Thought the bullet would severe attachments It made him clever I just wanna live forever So what do we do? Hanging my lifeless body out the top of the coop Humming: "I just wanna live forever And share all the wealth How a nigga gon' do that If he meet God 'fore himself?" I don't know Get to where the sky's always clear What I fear is what my intentions get me Hm Wit these wings, you can see forever from up here A nigga never had no fear, but that's the tale of Icarus Difference is, once father couldn't maneuver labyrinths Show his son that there really might be magic in dreaming Dreaming of leaving Dreaming of flight Dreaming of building wings Jumping out ya window at night Dreaming of looking out Seeing such a freeing sight Do this all for paradise, my nigga Shit happened so suddenly It caught me off guard sadly I know I'm crying, baby Please don't look at me badly Trynna process the best that I can Still be your Peter Pan Fly you to different lands Still trynna be a man But can I break down for a second? Mama taught me bad news to be expected And poppa taught me if it fall on you, go on and deflect it Lil nigga I'm just tryna breathe, breathe, breathe Cling to thoughts with every dry heave Think what I'll tell God if we meet Prolly that I shouldn't hit the blunt that hard Tell my lil nigga breathe, breathe breathe Holdin' his chest, he bleeds, bleeds, bleeds Wish I could tell his family that he's Prolly gon' be absent from dinner tonight Fuck