Cost of Commas v2

Title: “Cost of Commas” (Intro) Uh… Tune my pain to a profit… Yeah… Greed grinnin’… gold teeth logic… (Hook) Money talk, I converse in commas, conscious lost in the commas Heart cold, bank roll got trauma, love broke, couldn’t dollar the problem Time spent, I invested in dollars, but it cost me the moments I honor If it all add up but you numb… Did you really win or just borrow your summer? (Verse 1) Uh, Greed greet me like “get it, go get it, don’t miss it, no limit, no scrimmage, just ball” I was all in my digits, division with feelings, subtractin’ whoever might call Mama call, I decline it, align with the grind, I defined it as climbin’, that’s all Now that silence rewindin’, her voice in my mind, I can’t call it back—permanent loss Yeah, penny for thoughts but my thoughts overpriced Nickel-and-dimin’ my circle, no advice Turned every “I love you” to “what is the price?” Now love on a shelf and I’m buyin’ my vices Fast life, fast lane, gas flame, dash game Heartbeat sync with the cash change Shorty said “you don’t feel,” I said “that’s strange” But I numbed every nerve just to maintain Stackin’ green like a gardener, pardon the hunger But I starved every bond for the art of the number Now the sum of my summers a bundle of hundreds But none of that fund what I lost to the hunger (Hook) Money talk, I converse in commas, conscious lost in the commas Heart cold, bank roll got trauma, love broke, couldn’t dollar the problem Time spent, I invested in dollars, but it cost me the moments I honor If it all add up but you numb… Did you really win or just borrow your summer? (Verse 2) Yeah, told my son “I’ma build you a throne” He said “I just needed you home” Damn… that cut clean through the chrome All that gold couldn’t cover the tone Uh, wrist froze but the time still tickin’ Line still ringin’, but I’m mindin’ commissions Blind to the missin’, signed to the vision Now I’m findin’ the vision was blindness disguised in ambition Yeah, friend to a phantom, I phased ‘em, replaced ‘em With faces that only relate to the paper Toastin’ to wins with nobody to clink it My circle a dot, yeah it shrunk to a statement Greed preach like a pastor in patents “Own everything, even air if it’s packaged” But what is a profit when loss overlappin’? I gained every dollar, but lost what was happenin’ (Bridge – fast pocket) Tick-tock, big watch, big rocks, still lost Time cost, can’t cop, rewind—still paused Mind cross, line crossed, love crossed, bill cost Soul sold, cold code—heart froze, still frost Ledger livin’, better business, but the spirit in a deficit Every second that I spent, I was spendin’ like a pessimist Count it up, mount it up, mountain of amounts But I’m countin’ what I lost more than what’s in my accounts (Hook) Money talk, I converse in commas, conscious lost in the commas Heart cold, bank roll got trauma, love broke, couldn’t dollar the problem Time spent, I invested in dollars, but it cost me the moments I honor If it all add up but you numb… Did you really win or just borrow your summer? (Outro) Uh… Greed still grinnin’ like a loophole livin’… Sayin’ “you’d do it again… admit it…” …Would I? If love don’t pay… but it pay in time… And money pay… but it cost your life… Tell me… If you had both in reach… Which one you keep… …and which one you sacrifice?