Patience - Issa Gold

As a kid, I was taught having patience is a virtue

But in waiting for the future, frustration could destroy you

Try to wait for your time, but you end up in a circle

Ain’t it funny how a virtue could just turn around and hurt you?

Tryna wait for love to come, but the pain stay consistent

Like waiting for your gifts to have a disappointing Christmas

Like working ten years and ain’t achieving nothing different

Like reaching for your goals, getting closer but you miss 'em

The point guard for the light stood at the podium

Preach about the future like we cruise in the DeLorean

Solace McFly, push the pedal for the sovereign

Fuel to raise off the aura to fill the auditorium

Was born a son of man, but Godly put the gift in hands

Geometrically, I’m turning diamonds out of pentagrams

Solace cool the atmosphere just like a global ceiling fan

Blossom like a daffodil, my pollen, it could heal a man

It get hard being patient when you tryna get it in (Yeah, yeah)

I got visions of my future, I been tryna get my wish (Yeah, yeah)

Had some things inside my life, I had to change, I made 'em flip (Yeah, yeah)

Now I’m waiting for my blessings, I been patient with the shits (Yeah, yeah)

It get hard being patient when you tryna get it in (Yeah, yeah)

I got visions of my future, I been tryna get my wish (Yeah, yeah)

Had some things inside my life, I had to change, I made 'em flip (Yeah, yeah)

Now I’m waiting for my blessings, I been patient with the shits (Yeah, yeah)

The winter took long as we waited for the summer

Tryna hold the times we love, and be scared of what’s to come up

Keep the memories we want and forgettin' all the others

Gotta praise every part, like give some love to the drummer

It take time for the come-up

Being patient feel like waiting for the sun to break the thunder

It’s the nine months of pain before a girl becomes a mother

It’s the blood, sweat, and tears that it takes to make you bubble

Time moves slow when the worst’s in your face

And it tend to speed up when the best take it’s place

It’s like days when I’m good always seem to slip away

Then the long nights come and I’m thinking 'bout the pain

I woke up real early on Capital STEEZ Day

Playing out the last time I saw him on replay

Remember telling him that things would be okay

He looked at me with a tear, like this shit won’t change

I wish I knew the words that could’ve kept him on this Earth

But it’s hard when you hiding your heart under your shirt

You supposed to wear it on your sleeve where everybody could see it

But I put mine in the dream when people 'round me need it

That’s selfish, life is 'bout growing as a collective

But we live inside our shells, and honestly, I respect it

If you don’t protect your neck, these niggas snatchin' your necklace

And you know you need your jewels, or they overthrow you from rule

It get hard being patient when you tryna get it in (Yeah, yeah)

I got visions of my future, I been tryna get my wish (Yeah, yeah)

Had some things inside my life, I had to change, I made 'em flip (Yeah, yeah)

Now I’m waiting for my blessings, I been patient with the shits (Yeah, yeah)

It get hard being patient when you tryna get it in (Yeah, yeah)

I got visions of my future, I been tryna get my wish (Yeah, yeah)

Had some things inside my life, I had to change, I made 'em flip (Yeah, yeah)

Now I’m waiting for my blessings, I been patient with the shits (Yeah, yeah)

I waited for the plants to grow strong, kept believing

Put the seeds into the ground and hope we had a rain season

I been sittin' on the porch every morning to the evening

It get hard being patient, I been running out of reasons

Thought I followed all the steps and read all the right things

But I learned everything we can’t control, like when it rains

Or when a loved one is late, or the time of the day

Or the way that people treat you, know that you are not to blame