00:00The end holds the dream, pristine and divine
00:11The pavement's the truth, the crooked hard line
00:15There's the space in between where the two intertwine
00:19An old voice cracks like the vinyls hiss
00:26The city breathes stories if you just sit and listen
00:29A faint piano loops like a thog that won't quit
00:34Let's begin
00:36Let's begin
00:59Let's begin
01:08Let's begin
01:16Let's begin
01:24Let's begin
01:29Behind the bulletproof glass
01:42With a faraway gaze
01:44Mr. Patel counts the hours
01:46Stuck in the days
01:47Between the lottery tickets and the blunt wraps
01:49He's mapping kingdoms from a worn out world map
01:52The chai he sips is a sweet steaming dream
01:54Of a deli morning by a silent slow stream
01:56With the bell on the door brings the pavement's cold truth
01:59Another piece, another debt to his truth
02:01He wipes the counter down as a bitch and we'll dance
02:04Caught in the circumstance, never given a chance
02:07Just a temporary tenant in a fluorescent lit scene
02:10Living the space in between
02:12And the bitch and we'll dance
02:17On the milk crate throne, sipping something dark and brown
02:44Is old man Henderson who's seen this whole town
02:46Changed from a village to a concrete maze
02:49He speaks of riddles of the good old days
02:51Points a shaky finger at the new high rise
02:54Says, I remember when the stars on the night skies
02:57His truth is a memory faded and worn
02:59A history lesson, tattered and torn
03:01He sees the ghost of a playground
03:03In the parking lot, asphalt
03:04His dreams are the legends
03:05He's meticulously built a living archive
03:07Of what this block has been
03:09Living the space in between
03:11And the bitch and we'll dance
03:17No
03:22If we take people
03:27If we take people
03:32And the bitch and we'll dance
03:37When the door swings wide
03:43A burst of loud noise
03:44Three young boys full of futures and poise
03:46They pull their dollars for a bag of hot chips
03:49Talking about beats, rhymes, and sponsorship trips
03:51One's a producer
03:53The next one's a star
03:54They're building empires in the back of a car
03:56A pen in their pocket
03:58A moleskine divine
03:59Filled with verses that they swear will shine
04:01But the pavement waits with a lesson
04:03To teach a crooked hard line
04:05Just a block down the street
04:06For now they're all potential
04:08A beautiful scene
04:09Living the space in between
04:11The bell rings
04:12A symphony
04:13The floor of a stage
04:14Life a paragraph
04:15On a well-thought page
04:16From the pristine dream
04:18To the crooked design
04:19This cornerstone chronicle
04:20This life of mine
04:22Then the bitch and we'll dance
04:27Go
04:32If we take people
04:37If we take people
04:42And the bitch and we'll dance
04:47If we take people
04:52In the sun
04:57The bell rings
05:02A symphony
05:03The floor
05:03The stage
05:04Each life a paragraph
05:05On a well-thought page
05:07From the pristine dream
05:08To the crooked design
05:09This cornerstone chronicle
05:11This life of mine
05:13And the bitch and we'll dance
05:20Go
05:24And the bitch and we'll dance
05:27This only is what this is
05:38When I should've spoke my mind
05:39Let the moment pass me by
05:41Left the truth behind
05:42It opens up a chamber
05:44Where my courage went to rest
05:46And the dust of what I should've been
05:48Discovering my trust
05:49This one's for the friendship
05:51That I broke to save my pride
05:53A hollow metal feeling
05:54I keep rattling deep inside
05:56It don't unlock an answer
05:58Just the question
05:59Was it worth
06:00A faded polaroid
06:01Of my own diminished worth
06:03I've gotta ring the skeleton keys
06:06But they can't unleash the past
06:09They just open up the breeze
06:13That tells me nothing lies
06:16Oh nothing lies
06:17The key is for the blueprint
06:19Of a life I never built
06:20The chill of cold, cold feet
06:22The foundation of my guilt
06:24It opens up a vacant lot
06:26Where my ambition lies
06:27Beneath the for sale sign
06:29Reflected in my eyes
06:30And this one small and tarnished
06:32Is for every borrowed lie
06:34The ones I told the mirror
06:36Looking back right at the guy
06:37Who promised he was different
06:39Who swore he'd climb and reach
06:41It just unlocks the echo
06:43The hollow preacher's speech
06:44I've gotta ring the skeleton keys
06:47But they can't unleash the past
06:50They just open up the breeze
06:54That tells me nothing lies
06:57Oh nothing lies
06:58We all have our locksmiths
07:14Our secrets and our shames
07:15We give them different names
07:17Play different little games
07:18But the rattle is the same
07:20The rattle is the same
07:22A melody of ghosts
07:24A haunting quiet flame
07:25And the master gene
07:27The one that fits the manger of my chest
07:29Is the fear I'm not enough
07:30Putting all the rest to test
07:32It unlocks every failure
07:34Let's run around my skull
07:36A cacophony of doubt
07:37Until the atmosphere is full
07:39Is the truth beneath the pavement
07:41The crooked hard design
07:42That says this pen's a temporary
07:44Fragile broken line
07:46And the dream might just be ink
07:48Wash off in the first rain
07:49And leave me with the silence
07:51In the skeleton's refrain
07:53I've got a ring of skeleton keys
07:56But they can't unleash the past
07:59They just open up the breeze
08:03That tells me nothing lies
08:05Oh nothing lies
08:07Oh nothing lies
08:14Skeletons
08:22Wait
08:23Carry the weight
08:24All these keys
08:29Can't set me free
08:31Skeletons
08:49Wait
08:50Carry the weight
08:51Carry the weight
08:51All these keys
08:54Can't set me free
08:55Skeletons
08:57Wait
08:57Carry the weight
08:58All these keys
09:01Can't set me free
09:02Hmm
09:03White
09:14Part of
09:15Maybe
09:16Must rush
09:16elegance
09:17Could pull your weight
09:17Line
09:17Can't set me free
09:18Tell me
09:19Not d
09:21me
09:22Should I
09:22Think
09:23Truth
09:24Know
09:25I don't reflect in street light
09:27Like glitter on black ice tonight
09:30I was lost in soap and nail right?
09:35Then you appeared a mad sight
09:38Heart B, skip, skip, felt your phenotype
09:45Brainwave, brainwave, sound more than a white grave
09:51Brainwave, brainwave
09:53My heart, you engrave
09:58Bass drum thumping in my soul
10:01This love story taking control
10:04Thunder rolls like a tidal hole
10:07Now our bodies are on the go
10:10Didn't see you coming, didn't hear you calling
10:14Just rain drumming, now I'm all in
10:23Butters reflecting street light
10:34Like glitter on black ice tonight
10:37I was lost in soap and nail right?
10:41Then you appeared a mad sight
10:43Heart B, skip, skip, felt your finger tip
10:48Brainwave, brainwave, found love in a wet grave
10:53Brainwave, brainwave, my heart you engrave
10:58Brainwave, brainwave, my heart you engrave
11:03Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
11:05Bass drum thumping in my soul
11:08This love story taking control
11:10Ooh, ooh, ooh
11:11Find your rules like a tidal hole
11:12Now our bodies are on the go
11:13Ooh, ooh, ooh
11:14Bass drum thumping in my soul
11:15This love story taking control
11:16Find your rules like a tidal hole
11:17Now our bodies are on the go
11:31Didn't see you coming, didn't hear you calling
11:34Just rain drumming, now our bodies are on the go
11:38Didn't see you coming, didn't hear you calling
11:40Didn't hear you calling
11:44Just playing drumming
11:46Now I'm all in
12:06The ink is settling
12:08The dust has found its shelf
12:09I wrote my dreams down
12:11I even wrote myself
12:12The pavement taught me lessons
12:13That the pen can never spell
12:15Like how a crooked line
12:16Can sometimes break a fall
12:17And how the hardest truths
12:19Can make you stand up tall
12:20I traced the constellations
12:22And the cracks along the wall
12:23And found my own reflection
12:24In the grout between the stones
12:26A mosaic of the broken
12:27But I built back all the bones
12:29This ain't a happy ending
12:31No final curtain call
12:33It's just a recognition
12:36That I've weathered through the squall
12:39The pen is for the future
12:42The path I have to chart
12:44The pavement's just the memory
12:47I carry in my heart
12:50And in this space between them
12:53I finally understand
12:55It's not about the finishing
12:58It's about the way you stand
13:01To turn the last page over
13:03And with a steady hand
13:05Begin the next chapter of the plan
13:07I closed the book on sleepless nights
13:14The hunger and the dread
13:15But I thanked them for the fire
13:16That they burned into my head
13:18I blessed the doubt the dog beat
13:19Cause it made me run faster
13:21I think the love that found me
13:22In the midst of the disaster
13:23The prologue was a question
13:25The chronicles of scene
13:26The skeletons were locks
13:27But now I hold the key
13:29And though the dream was concrete
13:30It was still a living thing
13:31It taught a grounded angel
13:33How to use her wings
13:34This ain't a happy ending
13:37No final curtain call
13:39It's just a recognition
13:42That I've weathered through the squall
13:44The pen is for the future
13:47The path I have to chart
13:50The paper's just the memory
13:53I carry in my heart
13:55And in this space between them
13:58I finally understand
14:01It's not about the finishing
14:03It's about the way you stand
14:06To turn the last page over
14:09And with a steady hand
14:10Begin the next chapter of the plan
14:13I'll see voices on almost to whisper
14:20The beat begins to fade
14:22Leaving the guitar
14:23The dream still divine
14:25The last still crooked
14:27But it's mine
14:27The space in between
14:29It's just life
14:30And the pen is poised
14:43The dream still divine
14:49The line still crooked
14:51But it's mine
14:52The space in between
14:53It's just life
14:55And the pen is poised
14:58Yeah, we build from the bottom
15:20With concrete dreams
15:21Seeing castles in the cracks
15:22And kingships in the seams
15:24From the pavement to the pinnacle
15:25Chainships in the seams
15:26We climb through the darkness
15:38We own the damn night
15:40The alarm clock springs
15:41A 4 a.m. song
15:42Eyes heavy with visions
15:43Body begging for calm
15:45This city's a beast
15:46And it's hungry for souls
15:47It swallows the timid
15:49And takes all that goes
15:50My corner is this notebook
15:52The beat is my tool
15:53Every bar is a break
15:54In a rigid old rule
15:56They see the dirty seekers
15:57The wear and the tear
15:58They can't see the palace
16:00I'm building right here
16:01The doubt is the background noise
16:03Static and hung
16:03But the dream is a drunk beat
16:05Louder than some
16:06This pen ain't just plastic
16:08It's a big action blade
16:09Shipping it granted
16:10Not afraid of the shame
16:11Yeah, we build from the bottom
16:13With concrete dreams
16:14Seeing castles in the cracks
16:16And kingships in the seams
16:17From the pavement to the pinnacle
16:18Chainships in the seams
16:19From the pavement to the pinnacle
16:21Chainships in the seam
16:22From the pavement to the pinnacle
16:24Chainships in the light
16:25We climb through the darkness
16:26We own the damn night
16:27The among damn night
16:29We're damn night
16:30We're damn night
16:32We're damn night
16:33Sacrifice weekends
16:34For the weight of the words
16:35Lost conversations
16:37Became absurd
16:38Speaking in verses
16:39Rehearsing the pain
16:41Turning to thunder
16:42Into lyrical rain
16:43Every note was a nailer
16:45It shut over the wall
16:46But the vision's a blueprint
16:48Towering to fall
16:49Yeah, the pavement is crooked
16:50It'll twist up your feet
16:51But it gives you the friction
16:53Instead of defeat
16:54The gravity of average
16:56The pull of the plane
16:57I'm mixing my sweat
16:58With the heaven-set rain
17:00Pouring a foundation
17:01Again under mine
17:02This crooked hard line
17:03Is now straight up mine
17:05Want the glory
17:06But they don't want the climb
17:07They want the harvest
17:08But they leave the sea behind
17:10My soul's the architect
17:11My spirit is the crane
17:13Arising from the concrete
17:14Again and again and again
17:16Hell from the bottom
17:17With concrete dreams
17:18Seeing castles in the cracks
17:20And kingships in the seams
17:21From the pavement
17:21To the pinnacle
17:22Chainships in the seams
17:23From the pavement
17:24To the pinnacle
17:25Chainships in the seams
17:26From the pavement
17:27To the pinnacle
17:28Chainships in the light
17:29We climb through the darkness
17:30We own the damn night
17:31The amount damn night
17:33What damn night
17:34What damn night
17:36What damn night
17:37The dream
17:38The grind
17:39The divine
17:40The line
17:41It's all mine
17:42Concrete
17:43Can't be beat
17:44From the bottom of the street
17:45To the sky
17:46Yeah we built this
17:48You built this
17:51Yeah
17:52We built this
17:53Uh
17:54Whoa
17:55Yeah
17:56We built the one of us
17:58The grind
18:00The divine
18:01The line
18:02It's all mine
18:03Concrete
18:04Can't be beat
18:05From the bottom of the street
18:06To the sky
18:07Yeah
18:08We built this
18:09We built the plates
18:12We built this
18:13To the eyew roared
18:13We built the one that
18:14The paradigms
18:15We built the ones
18:16We built this
18:18The sand
18:18And we built this
18:19We built this
18:20We built this
18:20The tierra
18:21And we built this
18:22The sides
18:23aby
18:24To the trenches
18:25The Route
18:26You build this
18:26donut
18:27What damn day
18:28We built this
18:28The coolest
18:29Assass Shall go
18:30The
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