Wings

This is my story

Wait, nah, this is our story, this is our fate

This is our kingdom, this is our place

This is our freedom, cut off them chains

This is our struggle, this is our pain

This is our love, this is our trust

This is our daughters, this is our sons

Gimme back my wings

Oh, gimme back my wings, see I just wanna fly again

Wanna try, fail, try to try again

Head up in the stars, I promise I'm higher than

The right person for the job, you hire to fire them

I be working for the same thing (same thing)

Towards the same goal (same goal)

Are we losing the passion in which we came for (came for)

I was strong but identifying the same flaws (same flaws)

Fightin' each other but battling for the same cause

Let me breathe, ain't got the time to be your enemy (enemy)

That shit is drainin', they're taking up too much energy (energy)

I'd rather invest in something' that's worth it

The time is precious, so for Simz to waste it is

Somethin' you'll never see, hold me to it (to it)

Everything is just a memory (memory)

It's gettin' modest than, and never modest than, than I remember

I am not fucking about, gettin' modest is an error

I'll be fine as long as I've got my head up (Breathe)

I ain't prayed in a minute (in a minute)

Before you judge me, hold that thought and let me finish

For a long time, I thought that praying was just asking for things like

The road to riches and diamond rings

But now I know that I just gotta be thankful (thankful)

Blessings every day, shit, I've got my hands full

Lessons every day, I'm learning for more angles

Mom, stop stressin' over shit that I'ma handle, don't you know?

(Don't you know) Simbi got you, I ain't even gotta say it (gotta say it)

The album's here, I hope you love it, hope you play it (hope you play it)

I know you knew this day would come, I know you prayed it

(I know you prated it) can't wait to look at you and tell you that I made it

(That I made it) See, it's amazing (it's amazing)

Good things come to the people that wait, and I waited (and I waited)

Tell me, do you believe the quote above I stated (that I stated)

Nobody handed me a dream, I had to chase it

I had to be business minded and put aside my feelings

I had to find my own truth, my own meanings

Wrote this in the same bedroom I started in

Had to dream big, had to look beyond my ceiling

Do you feel it? (feel it)

Hand on my heart, if only you could feel the way it's beatin'

(Beating) I mean it (I mean it)

This the type of music that ain't never gonna sell

Well, shouldn't never ever tell me that

Should've never ever told me that

What if I prove you wrong, tell me now, could you live with that?

No, you wouldn't wanna live with that

I ain't saying this'll go to number one, no, I ain't sayin' that

I know you know that I ain't sayin' that

I just wanna do this all for my people, fuck the rest

Give you realness every time

Nothin' more, nothin' less, and it goes like

No time for these low lives

I'm onto somethin' bigger, all thanks to the most high

Becoming more relentless and less defensive

It's in my mechanism

Who gives a fuck about cosigns

Never scared of killin' em, somethin' that's too real

They don't have to play this, I know that Huw will, and you will

Huh, no, you can't ignore it

Many of us want this life but just ain't cut out for it

Yeah, so don't you ever (don't you ever)

Forget who told you this, no, don't you ever (don't you ever)

See, this is for your kids, yeah, don't you ever (don't you ever)

Overlook this here

So this is our message, this is our faith

This is our voice, this is our names

This is our new, now we want change

This is our sun, this is our rain

This is our wind, this is our fail

This is our hands, how an we help?

This is our heaven, this is our hell

This is our story, this is our tale, our tale