Intro

Dear Lord, thank you for letting me be here to see

another day again

I'm grateful to be alive, God bless the souls that came

and went, I'm so lucky

To have a good family that loves me

Please let my girl know how much I love her

Sorry that we're both so unhealthy

I feel so guilty

Everytime I pray I feel like I ask her to help me

I don't pray with the hopes to get wealthy

I just want success, I know it sounds selfish

I've always been a screw up

I finally got the chance to fix it

I signed a record deal after all these years

I wish I was more optimistic,

I'm really just scared

What if they don't like what they hear?

What if I don't make a career out of music?

What am I supposed to do then?

I'm always getting judged

I hate to see my face in the mirror

I done wrote about everything so many times

I don't have inspiration to spare

I barely even hear

I've been down on the road

And I feel like I've been gone all year

Even when I'm home there's so much pressure to be Rittz

It's hard to feel like I'm all there

So many wish, they could rap for a living

Some complain about it's unfair

Some days I feel like I've been living in a dream

Other times feeling like a nightmare

And I need some of my peers

'Cause I have a bunch of songs to write

And I'm feelin' like my future all depends on this

Gotta rid myself of (?)mental box and censorships(/?)

Gotta get some confidence back in my penmanship

And I don't wanna dissapoint the fans who listenin

'Cause they expectin something incredible in the end

Without them, I'm nothing as I begin to get my strive

back

I remember when I was a kid

And my dad, he would teach me how to play the guitar

Me and my brother would pretend that we was in a band

Musicians in my family was dreamin' to be stars

Only to condensate to something that you didn't attend

at music

Must've been playing, I'm the chosen one

So I'ma go tripping and get behind this mic and rock

Amen, Slumerican

Strange Music

The Life and Times of Johnny Valiant