burnin what i was

Verse 1

Yo, check the mic one two, the year is ninety-nine

Got my eye on the prize and my mind on the grind

Boom bap through the speakers crackin plaster on the wall

I used to chase a memory but now I chase it all

Pockets used to be empty now they rattlin with change

Same block same crew but the whole world rearranged

Used to stare at the ceiling wonderin what went wrong

Now I write my own script and I sing my own song

Chorus

Movin on up, never lookin back

Left the old regrets on a one-way track

I got the future in my palm and the past in the rearview

Old school flow but the vision is new

Every lesson learned turned to gasoline

Burnin what I was to become what I've been

Verse 2

Spinnin vinyl in the basement, crate diggin for the breaks

That old static in my head now a melody it makes

I seen the bottom of the bottle and the top of the hill

Learned to stand on my own two with a iron will

Went from starin at the ceiling to starin at the stars

Bent the frame on my picture now I raised the bars

No more lookin for a ghost in the rearview mirror

When the bass hits low, that's the only thing I hear

Pre-Chorus

And I used to get lost in the what-if and the coulda-been

But the sun came up and I let the night end

Chorus

Movin on up, never lookin back

Left the old regrets on a one-way track

I got the future in my palm and the past in the rearview

Old school flow but the vision is new

Every lesson learned turned to gasoline

Burnin what I was to become what I've been

Bridge

So if you see me coastin with the windows down

Know I finally found solid ground

The memories that mattered, they still stick around

The rest got buried six feet underground

Chorus

Movin on up, never lookin back

Left the old regrets on a one-way track

I got the future in my palm and the past in the rearview

Old school flow but the vision is new

Every lesson learned turned to gasoline

Burnin what I was to become what I've been