Still Shining - Shane Kidd, Lucius

You back at it again with a pad and a pen

Gotcha mind on grind let the passion begin

You going for the gold with the actions to win

You wanna spit the truth and get the daps from your friends

But you’re overlooked it’s same repetition

Feels like you just did a vain exhibition

Wanna be dope better change definitions

If wanna please them and gain recognition

Sayin back down put on the back burner

You hear their words and you rebel like Nat Turner

Murdering the tracks you become a fast learner

Great art it’s the goal not be a cash earner

If it come that’s certainly fine

But your ambition’s to go and furnish the minds

Wanna be a light against the current you grind

Forget the naysayers you’re determine to shine

It’s your time to Shine

It’s your time to Fly

Stay on the grind don’t waste time

Or life will just pass you by

Do what you gotta do

What you get is all up to you

Go hard and lay it on the line

Cause it’s your time to shine

You hitting the books being a diligent student

Wanna be a teacher man, you’re willing and prudent

Growing young minds and revealing a movement

To see a better a path start building the blueprint

Thinking Dang, do the kids truly listen

Or Are they caught up in the media’s beauty tricking

The Rappers and the athletes control and rule they vision

But you hear the words from your man who be spitting

He Saying homie make them be potent with life

Ain’t gotta be athletes or holding a mic

Be an author or doctor go to new heights

Other ways to succeed start remolding their sight

Keep pushing be smart with your time

Enlighten the world avoid the darkness that blind

Do the impossible disregard the confines

Open up their eyes by sparking a shine

Yo it’s back to work, you gotta goal to accomplish

Keep your focus right can’t roll with no nonsense

You made it this far, so you know their astonished

Keep hope alive let it grow in your conscious

Remember, man don’t fold to peer pressure

Take up the challenge and face the fierce measure

Believe in what you do it’ll be a shear pleasure

Keep the end in mind and purse the clear treasure

Christ, so run you laps with persistence

Gotta love the journey lasting the distance

Talking to myself I gotta actively listen

Practice what you preach no passive existence

Gets tougher the higher you climb

Gotta trust God That’s the entire design

Water purifies let the fire refine

Reflecting the light as you aspire to shine