Know Yourself

Long time coming to right now

Pipe down

Lifetime looking for things I thought I found already

Falling to the floor like I'm alright, I'm steady

I send myself back so I can tell me

Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats

And I’m still so far from finding peace

Every line is a ladder I can climb through time

And I walk straight faced through the winding streets

I eat the bread of rhythm, I drink them milk of rhyme

But I’ve been carrying a bag of shame that’s bigger than me

Dragging it behind me, up an endless staircase

Until the day I realised

This doesn’t mean what I think it does

I don’t need to carry this forever

I left it in the clearing by the firepit and ran

Back to the child I was, looking for an elder

I saw myself there, I took myself by the hand

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me know yourself

I was seventeen, Heaven seemed close enough to touch

I had never been happier

Chest against the barrier watching Wu Tang

My own character starting to bloom

I was learning how to capture a room in two phrases

Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats

Close my eyes and speak down the wires of time

I go back to the child I was

When I put myself on the line

I had to beg for the mic

I had to deal with the ignorance

I had to get better

I wanted bigger things

Well these days, those days are far away

I try and catch them in my sights, but they start to fade

Now I sit amongst crate loads of rhyme books

And I think about the old days that the time took

I thank the little me that put the work in

Like, could you picture me when you were spitting sixteens?

Surfing the top deck, penning them bars

Underage in the clubs, taking charge of the mic?

Precocious little nothing with the world in your sights

I am on it now, I will work harder

This is peace to the kid I came after

Peace to the kid I came after

The words are the bridge between the present and the past

I know myself at last

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me, know yourself

When I was young, I sought help from my older self

I came into my head, I told me, know yourself

Know yourself

Know yourself