Parity

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I'm calculating all my losses
Tryna gain some Ws
I've been out here flying family colours
Never thought you'd paint me as a prodigal
It's been a struggle tryna level up
Both in public and in solitude
If I could leave my people anything
At least be moments that are opportune!

Let me kick it off from the intro (Ayyy!)
They're like "Whagwan, where you been though?" (Ayyy!)
I've been getting old in the big smoke (Uh!)
Adding injury to the insult
Life ain't gravy...it's less than Bisto
Still I put something together and watch 'em indulge
My contributions essential
But outgoings don't match the inflow
But I still represent where I come from
Through the struggle and strife with the loved ones
I never gave up on fam, never, not once
I gave it all that I got and I’m not done
I'm still on it fam, I'm still on it
and it's hard sometimes...I'll be honest
But through that mountain high and that valley low
Fam I've got to speak on it
So bun it!

Uh! (Uh!) Generational differences
Makes love taste so sweet with some bitterness
Compared to Pops we grew up with some privilege
You know dem ones? (You know dem ones?)
Now I look at the life of the littlun
It's funny how a little time can diminish things
In a world that don't witness his innocence....uh
I've got friends who are shackled to the ends we were trying to escape from
The words that we sing, do they put the offspring in a better situation dawg?
Still...there's tough things that we've gotta ask
Do you really want a white picket fence with a garden when your son's the only black kid in the class?
...Bars!
See I‘ve been changing gradually, (gradually!)
I'm sorry if I don't embody the all of the dreams that you had for me (that you had for me!)
Ain’t it mad how we haggle over trading peas for our sanity
But no matter the price, we still have to eat off the salary
All these raps and analogies
In my back there’s a battery that’s the anatomy
We know pain, we know tragedy, Lord God
They want art, let me paint them a gallery
There’s family factory settings we're deading to spare your kids eventualities
if it's not profit on a balance sheet
then pray our losses give 'em parity

I pray our losses give 'em parity
If it’s not profit on a balance sheet
‘And we were everything we had to be! Yeah!
I pray our losses give 'em parity
And they ain’t tethered by the gravity
Endeavour places that we never dreamed!
Uh! I pray our losses give 'em parity
If it’s not profit on a balance sheet
‘And we were everything we had to be!
...I pray our losses give 'em parity!