Show Up - Marlon Craft

I only come out when it’s time to pay

The grinder’s wage, the cost of every line I say

Appreciates with time it’s like a stock or a bond I save

And if words were dollars I’d be rich but they ain’t

And if thought or scholarship was dope I’d be dank

If the smoke was the pain that I feel from all the hopelessness, shame

From the wokeness I gained you could

Roll me up and toke me away, shit I

Just been tryna find a groove with it

In my slippers on the stoop sitting

New chick got me stiffer than a new fitted

Told her you an escape for me and she was cool with it

And I don’t wanna need need need my vices, I just wanna free my mind

But if I’m gon' believe my life is mine, baby I’m gon' have to redefine

My momma told me one thing about you baby

Is that you always show up, when it’s time

But I been takin Ls all month

I been win-free I’m feelin' like Oprah, I’m on my grind though

And if I fuck it up, fuck it.

If I fuck it up, fuck it

'Cause when it’s time to show up I’mma show up

Sho' 'nough baby matter of time, matter of time

And if I fuck it up fuck it, at least I wasn’t a puppet

I’m warrin' with the money like Buffet

I don’t wanna need or want it I ain’t budging for your budget

That’s a luxury of luck it’s a lot of folks out here starvin'

I pour my OJ in a glass I said mom

What if I do my best and it don’t last I said mom

What if I’m to crass or too passive or blasphemous

Or if I get too nervous to act, she said yo hold on

You forever been different

When you ain’t in the room baby the elephants missin'

When it’s your time to go you in your element, they forever been

Tellin' Craft to leave but somehow every diss miss him/

You got that type of strength that

Look like weakness to the untrained eye

But you gon' be above these feelin’s baby one day I

Know you don’t need em when the lights go on

Now man the fuck up and go write your song, one time like/

My momma told me one thing about you baby

Is that you always show up, when it’s time

But I been takin' Ls all month

I been win-free I’m feelin' like Oprah, I’m on my grind though

And if I fuck it up, fuck it.

If I fuck it up, fuck it

'Cause when it’s time to show up I’mma show up

Sho' 'nough baby matter of time, matter of time