Javion Bishop - Act I: Mortality Lyrics

Why we do what we do
Why we say what we say
Why this burden I hold heavy, got me bout to break
Why my mental be swinging back and forth like night and day
Why it’s hurting my soul to look my momma in her face
Don’t keep no calendars I’m passing through my wasted days
2-0-1-8, I made it past my expiration date
So fuck a clock this world been tryna take my life
Away since I was in the womb
Way before I had first steps to take
Outta sight outta mind, Mother Nature, Father Time
And Little Baby death was creeping close, I kept him out of mine
Thoughts chasing, my heart racing like Autobahn
Protect my energy, I’m learning my history
Studied different religions, discovered shit that took from me
Angels around me I know they put power in my hands
Expose my soul on these records hoping you understand
I’m well protected, I dare my demons to come and dance
My mama said make an album about my life, tell my story, and she said if you do it just do it right, huh
My niggas said make my album straight from the heart
"Say fuck what the people talking my nigga this is your art" huh
My spirit told me come harder, I let it loose I’m living in all my truth and exposing it all to you
So tell me where do I begin? In the middle or the end
Lemme tell me you I survived in a system that was built for my demise, yea
From the belly of the beast to the bottom of the ocean I was drowning I was sinking, now
They set up the traps, and we living in them now
I promised mama that we would make it out
I told all my niggas we was gone make it out
I swear to god if they don’t hear us we gone burn it down

Why we do what we do
Why we say what we say
Why this burden I hold heavy, got me bout to break
Why my mental be swinging back and forth like night and day
Why it’s hurting my soul to look my momma in her face
Don’t keep no calendars I’m passing through my wasted days
2-0-1-8, I made it past my expiration date
So fuck a clock this world been tryna take my life
Away since I was in the womb
Way before I had first steps to take
Outta sight outta mind, Mother Nature, Father Time
And Little Baby death was creeping close, I kept him out of mine
Thoughts chasing, my heart racing like Autobahn
Protect my energy, I’m learning my history
Studied different religions, discovered shit that took from me
Angels around me I know they put power in my hands
Expose my soul on these records hoping you understand
I’m well protected, I dare my demons to come and dance
My mama said make an album about my life, tell my story, and she said if you do it just do it right, huh
My niggas said make my album straight from the heart
"Say fuck what the people talking my nigga this is your art" huh
My spirit told me come harder, I let it loose I’m living in all my truth and exposing it all to you
So tell me where do I begin? In the middle or the end
Lemme tell me you I survived in a system that was built for my demise, yea
From the belly of the beast to the bottom of the ocean I was drowning I was sinking, now
They set up the traps, and we living in them now
I promised mama that we would make it out
I told all my niggas we was gone make it out
I swear to god if they don’t hear us we gone burn it down