XXIV by Xander (Singer) Lyrics
[Verse 1]:
Know who you are
Reach for a star
Find a trajectory
Close, no cigar
Always a has been
They tell me these bars
In them, I kill my partners too much
While that maybe is passing
So is my people on touch
Up close and personal
Don't stand between
Me and my progress
Lost a few friends
Lost a few colleagues
Not having no family
No, but my mama shout out
To her for giving me drama
Enough to fill up a bible study
Worth of troubling discoveries
Buddy... you don’t know what comes after
Twenty four times
I've wanted to finish myself
Twenty four years
It took me to really hear myself
Twenty four times
I did want to start
My twenty four rhymes
It took me to finish it
Rhymed twenty four bars
Like two times twelve
That's why I’m killing shit
That's what connecting those dots
Means
Whole world is my texture
And I will be building my blocks
I've been waiting too long
Maybe I'm next now
Texture
Sitting all benched
Filling those GAPs
Got outta dug out
To dig myself out
Hit my balls running
Right outta the park
Nothing self-harms me
Nothing to stop
Nothing to kill for
Got
People I live for
And they say
I've been thinking too much
You're not thinking enough
[Verse 2]:
24 cycles
Twenty four times
I've been high up
24 downers
To kill all my hope
Prescription be filled
Rip it to shreds
Switch it with dope
3 6 5 days making a record
24/7 and not wasting a second
Twenty four joints like a Spike Lee
Production
Can't say I had my
Motivation reduction
They’ve said I’m lazy
They've said I’m stupid
They've said I'm angry
Then how am I doing this
See me in love
See me imbue it
Our brain is too powerful
Now I will use it
The collective can wait
For the hive mind's not set
And I will be filling this gap, too
Because she said that her
Dreams were just plans
And I’m not planning to die, yet
Even in dreams, I'll be walking alive now, bet
I got home safe, home base
Killed God dead, Xander showed his face
Started to know who I was
Twenty four years
So many tears
Nights inside like a jail cell
Now pay my bail
Walk my walk
Fill your insides up with chalk
And talk my talk
Like
"Man in the mirror"
Mirror, I'm here
Twenty four reflections
Redirecting me forward
And getting more near
Uh
Twelve
Plus
Twelve
One
Plus
Two
One
Plus
One
Twenty four
Textures
Text
Yours
And mention them
You might just save a life
Accepting these cards that I've been dealt
More than anything that you ever felt
Know who you are
Reach for a star
Find a trajectory
Close, no cigar
Always a has been
They tell me these bars
In them, I kill my partners too much
While that maybe is passing
So is my people on touch
Up close and personal
Don't stand between
Me and my progress
Lost a few friends
Lost a few colleagues
Not having no family
No, but my mama shout out
To her for giving me drama
Enough to fill up a bible study
Worth of troubling discoveries
Buddy... you don’t know what comes after
Twenty four times
I've wanted to finish myself
Twenty four years
It took me to really hear myself
Twenty four times
I did want to start
My twenty four rhymes
It took me to finish it
Rhymed twenty four bars
Like two times twelve
That's why I’m killing shit
That's what connecting those dots
Means
Whole world is my texture
And I will be building my blocks
I've been waiting too long
Maybe I'm next now
Texture
Sitting all benched
Filling those GAPs
Got outta dug out
To dig myself out
Hit my balls running
Right outta the park
Nothing self-harms me
Nothing to stop
Nothing to kill for
Got
People I live for
And they say
I've been thinking too much
You're not thinking enough
[Verse 2]:
24 cycles
Twenty four times
I've been high up
24 downers
To kill all my hope
Prescription be filled
Rip it to shreds
Switch it with dope
3 6 5 days making a record
24/7 and not wasting a second
Twenty four joints like a Spike Lee
Production
Can't say I had my
Motivation reduction
They’ve said I’m lazy
They've said I’m stupid
They've said I'm angry
Then how am I doing this
See me in love
See me imbue it
Our brain is too powerful
Now I will use it
The collective can wait
For the hive mind's not set
And I will be filling this gap, too
Because she said that her
Dreams were just plans
And I’m not planning to die, yet
Even in dreams, I'll be walking alive now, bet
I got home safe, home base
Killed God dead, Xander showed his face
Started to know who I was
Twenty four years
So many tears
Nights inside like a jail cell
Now pay my bail
Walk my walk
Fill your insides up with chalk
And talk my talk
Like
"Man in the mirror"
Mirror, I'm here
Twenty four reflections
Redirecting me forward
And getting more near
Uh
Twelve
Plus
Twelve
One
Plus
Two
One
Plus
One
Twenty four
Textures
Text
Yours
And mention them
You might just save a life
Accepting these cards that I've been dealt
More than anything that you ever felt