Verse 1:
I keep reachin' for the top.
I can't stop until I find a key, but maybe that implies there's a door.
I can't take it no more.
I'm a carpenter, creative, so I build from the floor.
Babel in the
Babylon.
One tree and another till the whole World's bare.
Like
Cybertron, transforming from my old fears.
I hear something in the distance, and sounds like it's me, and I think that it is.
No shit...
I reflect the protection, the imperfection.
I'm living in a section that really needs help, but I can't help you until I help myself.
Can't sit like a book collecting dust on a shelf.
Oh well, blow it off, and I keep on pushing.
Sew up the bleeding heart syndrome that keeps on mushing.
Squishing in a little bit of me time too.
Eyes shining red, and a heart that's blue.
Brrrreeeeeaaaaath.....
I can't just leave it alone, until a king on a throne is crowned me.
Glory to the C - O - M - M - (U - N - I - T - Y!),
Cause that's what I aspire to be, aspire to lead, aspire to seed, aspire to grow.
"Come on in y'all. The doors are open folks. Now have a seat."
Chorus 1:
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
Verse 2:
And it's clear that I'm
heaven sent.
Back! to living routines, scheming through dreams, street crimes and violence.
My name ain't Bennett, and I was raised a
defendant, so now I'm going to work.
We ain't got' nothing to waste...
Taste the after-math, blood bath, and hate.
Take your time if you want to, but it takes you.
It almost took me, but I'm back on the crew.
Chorus 2:
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
Verse 3:
Ask for
wisdom at its simplest don't ask for the rest, cause' everyday single day you breath you'll be put to the test.
So I invest all my energy, the best of my time.
Like the
Wile E. Coyote, but
I'm out of my mind.
And the sign said stop, but I went right through.
What the hell is going on?
Yeah, I'm talking to you.
It's a
profession of
oppression,
suppressing the truth.
Got to
be about it, keep it moving, and do what you do.
Even if they tell you that you can't, you show and you prove.
Sharing their fear with their love.
Hear it but don't give up.
Ambitious, wishes, dreams, plotted goals...
When it rains let it pour, rainbow, pot of gold.
Hold On!
Ancestors...
If they gave up too quick/sand...
Flip the script man...
Stroke the paint brush with your plan.
Stand on your own two.
Entrepreneu' to do what you wanna' do.
Chorus 3:
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top. (For the top)
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top.
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top.
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top.
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
I keep reachin' for the top.
I can't stop. Cain't find it round' here in the bottom where I dropped.
End.