Apology Letter by Ettrick Shepherd Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I used to be a nice guy but lately I’ve just cracked
The awaiting weight that’s been caving on my back
Woulda done anything if it meant staying on the map
And not fading into black so maybe it was that
Or maybe it’s the fact that I was too much handle
And you needed a break from the craziness of that
There’s a lot of shit I couldn’t state to your face
So I’ma say it in a rap and then lay it on a track
Please accept my apology letter
I promise I’m honestly better and I got it together
Stopped and prevented what I turning to
Guess I was dancing with myself in a burning room
But I’m learning to ride the waves making the transition
Into a surfer dude
Lunch for the soul, I’ma serve the food
And as I’m cooking it you get a perfect view
At a point, looking at the peak
In the wrong place for whatever I was seeking, it begins
It’s time for brand new life to come and ease in
And when it finally arrives I’ma keep it
I give you my word
And my adjective and my noun and my verb
Every syllable that I put into this verse
Will go towards making sure a change of course occurs
[Verse 2]
I should’ve gotten out there fast
Threw the first stone in a divided house of glass
Now the shards on the ground reflect the past
Guess the structure wasn’t meant to last
Time to relocate to a new home
Cos the stone stopped and turned into a tomb stone
A dogs gotta find a new bone
Or learn to live without one then move on
Faked from what he saw in the water
It was that greed that brought him the torture
Wanting more than what he had left him stranded
So he fled from the land empty handed
So I’ma sleep in the bed I made
Embrace my mistakes and celebrate
Cos I’ve been down this road before
So I’ve felt this low before
[Verse 3]
I’ma be humble and accept
That I’ve had some ups and downs and trouble with respect
Now I’m locked in a cell, it’s like I’m rottin’ in hell
I ain’t at the top of my health or knowledge of self
But hey, ain’t everyone a work in progress
All that we can really do is work and progress
I jump to conclusions, I be assumin'
But I sure as hell don’t apologise to being human
What these people doin’ are pursuing the vision
To be perfect and escape the human condtion
Strip away the pride and the ego
It’s the things I don’t hide and they see both
Gotta cut shit off at the root of the problem
So I can do my best to solve it and use it to blossom
Thought I hit jewels and items of loot but I lost ‘em
Cos when I use to aim for improvement it’s costed
[Outro]
So there it is, damn
Feels like I just woke up or something
I guess I just forgot who the fuck I was, man
Ayo, and to anybody I thought about going at
It was never nothing personal
It was just some shit I was going through
And to everybody else, I'm back
I used to be a nice guy but lately I’ve just cracked
The awaiting weight that’s been caving on my back
Woulda done anything if it meant staying on the map
And not fading into black so maybe it was that
Or maybe it’s the fact that I was too much handle
And you needed a break from the craziness of that
There’s a lot of shit I couldn’t state to your face
So I’ma say it in a rap and then lay it on a track
Please accept my apology letter
I promise I’m honestly better and I got it together
Stopped and prevented what I turning to
Guess I was dancing with myself in a burning room
But I’m learning to ride the waves making the transition
Into a surfer dude
Lunch for the soul, I’ma serve the food
And as I’m cooking it you get a perfect view
At a point, looking at the peak
In the wrong place for whatever I was seeking, it begins
It’s time for brand new life to come and ease in
And when it finally arrives I’ma keep it
I give you my word
And my adjective and my noun and my verb
Every syllable that I put into this verse
Will go towards making sure a change of course occurs
[Verse 2]
I should’ve gotten out there fast
Threw the first stone in a divided house of glass
Now the shards on the ground reflect the past
Guess the structure wasn’t meant to last
Time to relocate to a new home
Cos the stone stopped and turned into a tomb stone
A dogs gotta find a new bone
Or learn to live without one then move on
Faked from what he saw in the water
It was that greed that brought him the torture
Wanting more than what he had left him stranded
So he fled from the land empty handed
So I’ma sleep in the bed I made
Embrace my mistakes and celebrate
Cos I’ve been down this road before
So I’ve felt this low before
[Verse 3]
I’ma be humble and accept
That I’ve had some ups and downs and trouble with respect
Now I’m locked in a cell, it’s like I’m rottin’ in hell
I ain’t at the top of my health or knowledge of self
But hey, ain’t everyone a work in progress
All that we can really do is work and progress
I jump to conclusions, I be assumin'
But I sure as hell don’t apologise to being human
What these people doin’ are pursuing the vision
To be perfect and escape the human condtion
Strip away the pride and the ego
It’s the things I don’t hide and they see both
Gotta cut shit off at the root of the problem
So I can do my best to solve it and use it to blossom
Thought I hit jewels and items of loot but I lost ‘em
Cos when I use to aim for improvement it’s costed
[Outro]
So there it is, damn
Feels like I just woke up or something
I guess I just forgot who the fuck I was, man
Ayo, and to anybody I thought about going at
It was never nothing personal
It was just some shit I was going through
And to everybody else, I'm back