Falling Down

They say that when it rains it pours. They're right.

Falling from out of the sky (It's falling down on me)

Praying come down, fall down

Praying come down, fall down

Falling from out of the sky

When I forgot to close the blinds I couldn't sleep

Kept waking up from all the shine, glare in my eyes

I'm off three hours, eat, sleep, repeat grind again

It's what he does that others don't do is what's defining him

I never would've thought the words wrote on a page

Would have me on the other side of Earth on a stage

I never would've thought there was a stage on Earth

That made me feel more at home besides my place of birth

I'm from gun-slinging CA where every movie's watched

Then watched back for instant replay

So many days and nights with ink bleeding papers

Fall asleep on flights, call it sleeping with strangers

Now back to the City of Angels where the rain is

Falling from out of the sky (It's falling down on me)

Praying come down, fall down

Praying come down, fall down

I simplify by design, my words get scribed

To the vinyl when they rhyme, mark it with a scribe

Count lessons, toes, fingers, I'm alive

I've passed so many lows to survive all the highs

I've learned some things and others learned to tolerate (like what?)

You can be a day short but not a dollar late

New day in chainlink, put it together

Beat the drum, pray for rain, we ain't the same under the weather

Just me against the world on the verge of relentless

Trying to stay apart like each word of the sentence

King vs. apprentice, champ vs. challenger

The challenger swung, the champ fell, they kicked him out of there

I throw raps to sea in a bottle to float

Like a lost SOS that the novelist wrote

The wind blew and popped the top, they read the letter

To whom it may concern, my sick words under the weather

Falling from out of the sky (It's falling down on me)

Praying come down, fall down

Praying come down, fall down

So I forgot to change the time showing up early

With my money on my mind trying to keep from crime

One of a kind, I'm defined by my environment

For everything I did from inception to retirement

Cause I be running on unleaded fumes

Collecting money back for sacks fronted for the rent is due

A daydreamer still running towards the rainbow's ending

Knowing damn well the gold wasn't meant for spending

You ten cents from a nickel in your pocket

Shit, I'm thirty short of twenty dollars in my wallet yeah

You might need twelve fingers for the runners

Maybe six on the hand, half a dozen on the other

I bundle up brown gloves for the summer

Shorts in the winter with a slicker and umbrella

A fella chasing cheese like he running a maze

But really I'm just running in place, I need the bread to start

Falling from out of the sky (It's falling down on me)

Praying come down, fall down

Praying come down, fall down

Falling from out of the sky