Counting Stars

[Verse 1] A lot of people live their life inside of a convention I finally broke it just because I couldn't stand it What I don't understand is the pressure to act solidified When it's ridiculous to expect to know what the plan is Gettin' ahead of ourselves populated the planet To levels beyond capacity that the earth couldn't handle And we just ignore it, cause in the nature of man It's the self instead of collective we feed like wax to a candle Difficult for any man to ever imagine taking off his own And walking inside another one's sandles More likely to catch me flipping samples than channels And telling somebody I know they can (in)'stead of can't do I never cancelled my plans cause you can't understand my path And the fact that I'm chasing destiny I took a chance and I ran with my heart Now I can't look back for the fact that this life is testing me I don't need college to drop knowledge thought that's convention I was always gifted, but always in detention So they fed me amphetamines for the kid's attention You might think that's regrettable for the kid to mention, but It's part of my past, now I can grasp it The future gives you answers you didn't know you could ask for It's part of my past, now I can grasp it The future gives you answers you didn't know you could ask for [Verse 2] But no, there's Never a star that the kid would wish on Never been a wisher, cause I rely on ambition Pick an instrumental, turn it into a sizzong Never felt the pressure to prove I can sing like sizzongs, cause That shit is true and I know it, that's all that matters I ain't got to prove to nobody I'm more than just a rapper It'll prove itself . . gotta give it time Gotta take the words .. gotta give em life So I can take the blind, and I can give em sight Then I can take my rhymes, and I give em light Cause they've been in the dark with the end of the alphabet Countin' em while I'm trying to change the world like I be Malcolm X Learning it's a close to impossible task without respect Fortunately, conquering the earth's what I set out for next Giving inspiration to niggas that haven't found it yet Until the day I'm finally six below the ground and dead