I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing I remember when it meant something to hold hands Showing each other and sharing all our favorite bands Saving spots at the dining tables during lunches And making plans to meet after school by the buses Stuck to one another like Velcro Felt like wow, she’s just took me out the friend-zone Kept her notes neatly folded as mementos When we finally kissed, is when my heart crescendoed I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing Cut to years later, I’m having some threesomes Swappin’ and droppin’ these women as soon as the next comes Kiss the legs and neck and get the sex done And over with, cause we’re now so shoulder-width Apart and sitting separately on the bedside As I’m thinking back to a time we were peptide The years have flown by now we’re at different stages Can’t help the fact that we’re on different pages I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing I guess that’s what it means to grow up But it still feels like it’s all not enough Like something’s missing Maybe I just need a new thing

I’m gonna take my sweet time with this Cause the beat is too fluid to get it over and done with I’m in my zone, and feeling such a oneness With the whole universe and all of the wondrous Things of the human experience so perfected Like we’re cosmically connected All the same soul just through different reflections Different shades of one color, it's all so splendid So I fall back into an endless depth Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts Blends together and I’m left standing in awe Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause I fall back into an endless depth Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept Comes alive, through the midnight sky And I swear that I have never been so high up before It’s like Descartes is taking DMT While he’s speaking with me About duality A feeling so freeing with a destiny Of forever floating atop on an endless sea A warm presence that’s upholding me Brings about a new awareness that’s enfolding me A perfect Potter that is molding me Out of something so trippy; it’s encoded in my coding So I fall back into an endless depth Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts Blends together and I’m left standing in awe Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause I fall back into an endless depth Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept Comes alive, through the midnight sky And I swear that I have never been so high up before Technicolor canvases, all throughout my life Captured different moments, where I had survived All of the depression and the outright doubting That we’re made for more than just for the constant counting Down the days until the clock runs out But now I’ve learned the secret to it all; the sun’s out And shining directly, onto my mind’s eye Never asking “how?,” and never asking “why?” So I fall back into an endless depth Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts Blends together and I’m left standing in awe Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause I fall back into an endless depth Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept Comes alive, through the midnight sky And I swear that I have never been so high up before

Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep Let’s go back a bit, and reminisce Talk about all of the those times that we miss When we were kids and just trying to kiss In the high school hallways of the classes we’d skip Take the city bus to the mall and movies Where I loved to show you off cause you were such a beauty Your voice; so soothing, it always moved me I loved knowing that I had nothing to prove, we Were such an “it” couple, or at least it seemed You were everything I thought that I would need Like a dream came true, it happened through you But then we woke up and it felt like we knew That the end was approaching and with it came All that name-calling and the outright blame That we cast on one another in heaps and spades So we split ways for good and I was never the same Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep So about the time that we stopped dating Is when your stepdad straight started hating me But I still waited for the day we’d be good Like a grown up ex properly should But it never came, we drifted away I went off to college, and you didn’t stay You moved with your mom to a different town And that’s when my life turned upside down I got into drugs with a brand new acquaintance Started living at parties with different occasions Where I could get smashed and forget the things that I could never change or ever bring back So goes the story cause now we’re almost forty Still remember feelings of a former glory And all those nights that we spent in tandem Now these love songs have become my anthems Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep Darling, my sweet These memories Are what I keep with me When I drift off to sleep

Like I said, I’m a shape shifter through time Finding all the perfect ways to find the perfect rhymes And I don’t worry about what everyone else is doing I’m just worried about doing me and I’m doing so fine I’m getting what’s mine, multiplying dimes Rapping over chimes, staying dressed up to the nines You’ll never catch me complaining or whining about life Cause mine is too good to mess it up with any strife Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable It takes the shape of anything cause it is so compatible Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable And I will never fail, cause my logic’s never fallible Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable Place it steadily atop the thumping bass-line I don’t hang with trash, I don’t ever waste time With problems that aren’t mine, or battles and fights That weaken my awareness or dim my spiritual light See the way I back down, it’s called having class I always have an answer but I don’t answer back fast I take my time, let the suspense build It’s about having the talent and just knowing that you’re skilled Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable It takes the shape of anything cause it is so compatible Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable And I will never fail, cause my logic’s never fallible Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable Let’s go in again, for the final round Not too many people I know can get away with this sound I find it calms me down, getting it all out Better through pen and paper than through anger and shouts So with that we close out another one Cause this is all just too much fun They call me Dre, call me Poet, call me that son Cause I’m a child of God; and that's no pun