VERSE 1 — SOUL / PAIN I done prayed inside the dark where nobody could hear me, Had a room full of love, still felt like nobody near me. Mama said, “Son, keep faith,” I was fighting through the fear, Had some people say forever, disappear inside a year. I was broke with a dream, had ambition in my pocket, Every door they tried to close put more fuel inside the rocket. I got scars I never show, I got tears I never mention, Made a prison out my thoughts, then I rapped my own redemption. If the choir sing tonight, tell ’em sing it for the lost, For the ones who paid in pain and never calculated cost. I learned diamonds need pressure, but the pressure leave you changed, So when everybody see the glow, they don’t know about the rain. I don’t flex because I made it—I remember being low, When the fridge was sounding empty but my heart was screaming, “Go.” If I ever touch the heavens, I’ma reach back through the clouds, ’Cause I know what being invisible feels like inside a crowd.
