[00:02.441][Chorus][01:09.444]Tread softly[01:10.443]Please tread so softly[01:11.939]These demons haunt me[01:12.950]Mama keep them off me[01:14.193]She says[01:15.445]Everything gone be okay[01:18.941]Whispers to me[01:19.939]I know that it hurts[01:21.448]Sometimes cuts could use more dirt, The songs they sing[01:24.943]In the jump ropes[01:25.698]They have heart[01:29.404]Tread softly[01:30.150]Please tread so softly[01:31.659]These demons haunt me[01:32.657]Mama keep them off me[01:33.897]She says[01:38.854]Everything gone be okay[01:39.096]Whispers to me[01:40.094]I know that it hurts[01:41.350]Sometimes cuts could use more dirt,The songs they sing[01:44.845]In the jump ropes[01:45.599]They have heart[01:48.351]Have heart[01:48.090][01:48.588][Verse 1: Alfred.][01:49.088]The song that I bear[01:50.086]And I bear it, because my mama[01:51.343]The one who taught it[01:52.342]And still for her, I work for honor[01:53.838]I walked along the water[01:55.090]Revеaled the holes in my skin[01:55.836]Just so thеse mother****ers know who I am[01:57.844]And I’m a mother****ing human, rapping lucid on the harp[02:00.340]Im prolly down to die for my art[02:02.092]I definitely don’t know what I’m doing[02:03.588]And I’m moving through the bullshit, by my prayers and angels[02:06.086]Close to familiar[02:07.084]But at best I’m a stranger[02:08.340]But a seat at the table[02:09.591]Eat without saying grace[02:10.335]That’s prolly I’m not graceful[02:11.835]Ending falling on face[02:12.843]Trippin[02:13.585]And niggas trippin’[02:14.342]Niggas wish upon a nigga[02:15.595]Live vicarously[02:16.339]Even if it kill em[02:17.591]Nigga tread soft[02:18.834]My heart so light[02:20.086]Will it really be okay when it’s dark at night[02:22.084]We don’t know the know[02:23.594]And really grow so much[02:24.838]Dreaming bout being already there[03:49.242]When you so close to touch, Yo nigga tread soft[03:56.104][03:58.101][Verse 2: McKinley Dixon][03:59.852]I just wanna l live forever[04:01.097]I just wanna live forever[04:02.347]Thought the bullet would sever[04:03.346]Attachments[04:04.102]It made him clever[04:04.856]I just wanna live forever[04:05.854]So what do we do[04:07.099]Hanging my lifeless body[04:08.104]Out the top of the coop[04:09.348]Humming[04:09.847]I just wanna live forever[04:10.846]And share all the wealth[04:11.846]How a nigga gone do that[04:13.100]If he meet god[04:13.599]‘Fore himself[04:14.353]I don’t know[04:15.350]Get to where the sky’s always clear[04:16.095]What I fear[04:17.348]Is what my intentions get me[04:18.600]Heh[04:19.602]Wit these wings[04:20.102]You can see forever from up here[04:21.600]A nigga never had no fear[04:22.850]But, thats the tale of icarus[04:24.607]Difference is[04:25.105]One's father couldn't maneuver labyrinths[04:26.844]Show his son that there really might be magic in[04:29.353]Dreaming,Dreaming of leaving[04:30.851]Dreaming of flight[04:31.596]Dreaming of building wings[04:32.606]Jumping out ya window at night[04:34.102]Dreaming of looking out[04:35.102]Peeping such a freeing sight[04:36.598]Do this all for paradise, my nigga[04:38.603]Shit happened so suddenly[04:40.106]It caught me off guard sadly[04:41.346]I know I’m crying baby[04:42.357]Please don’t look at me badly[04:43.853]Tryna process the best that I can[04:46.349]Still be your peter pan[04:47.605]Fly you to different lands[04:48.847]Still tryna be a man[04:51.854]But can I break down for a second[04:54.103]Mama taught me bad news to be expected[04:56.346]And pops taught me if it fall on you, go on and deflect it[04:58.599]Lil nigga[04:59.098]I’m just tryna[04:59.853]Breathe[05:00.351]Breathe[05:00.605]Breathe[05:01.350]Cling to thoughts[05:02.349]With every, dry, heave[05:03.604]Think what Ill tell god[05:05.102]If we meet[05:06.101]Prolly that I shouldn’t hit da blunt dat hard[05:08.597]Tell my lil nigga breathe breathe breathe[05:11.105]Holdin his chest[05:12.102]He bleeds bleeds bleeds[05:13.853]Wish I could tell his family, that, he’s[05:16.096]Prolly gone be absent from dinner tonight[05:18.348]****