VERSE 1
Visual wordplay
Going around and round in my brain
Cerebral boombox
With the button stuck on replay
Battle between east and west
Not Berlin or a wall
Talking two hemispheres
And they’re both named Jamaal
Unified allies when the order is tall
Sometimes fight against each other
Think it’s all gonna fall
External pressure
Makes internal conflict a haul
Take a man with fresh legs
Bring him down to a crawl
Probably don’t make sense
Don’t know how to explain it
Given a gift
I’m just trying to think of
How to retain it
But it’s attached to the pain
I don’t think I can shake it
Shhh, they’re both sleep now
I don’t think you should wake it
Mix it up, only Refiner’s fire
Could bake it
And what comes out
Is even stronger
I don’t think you could break it
It’s a lot of folks that
Probably never thought
That I’d make it
But this is all me
I don’t even think
I could fake it
And I,
Look in the glass
See a little more gray
On my mandible
Wisdom in the words
That I say
Wanna do the best job
With the message I convey
But if I’m not perfect
I wonder
Would it be okay?

CHORUS
If, I can’t be, I can’t be
What you want me to
Would that be, be okay
Be okay with you?

VERSE 2
What most, see with their eyes
I see with my mind
So when my eyes close
That’s when my mind shines
But gotta, open ‘em up
To make the vision complete
So I’m either daydreaming
Or I’m walking in sleep
Human conundrum
All I ever wanted was peace
Anxiety’s my confidant
It helps me flex on the beat
At times, wonder if I should
Just want it to cease
Gotta admit the craziness
It covers me like a fleece
But would it be okay
If that was just me
If I walked this earth
A little differently
If I wrote rhymes
Sang on stage to feel free
Feeling like the shining lights
Is God smiling down on me
What if being a performer
Was perfect for me
That couldn’t be denied, right?
So you’d have to agree
Like you, I was made wonderfully
But seem like everybody else
Got their vision for me
And yo, all I ever wanted
Was someone to ask me
What’s God doing in you?
What do you want to be?
We’re all beautiful brushstrokes
In His grand masterpiece
Take my hand, close your eyes
And I’ll show you
What I see

CHORUS

VERSE 3
For the dreamer, the loner
And those waiting to be found
The free spirit flying high
The broken fallen
To the ground
The ones under pressure
Feeling like they’re
Always tightly wound
Can’t see the tunnel’s light?
Just listen to the sound
Of your heartbeat
It’s speaking every time
That it pounds
When you think of giving in
It tells you go one more round
Even when your hands tied
Don’t mean your spirit is bound
Keep on giving all you got
You’re about to astound
And I’m right there with you
Took a minute to see
That I was made who I am
I guess, naturally
But still wondered
If I disappointed others, my G
Cuz I didn’t go to Brown
Attend M.I.T.
Why does it seem like
You only see what you
Want to see?
It’s unconventional
But what if this
The way that I preach?
Maybe it’s because
I didn’t drum professionally
But still nice on the beat
Guess this what God
Had for me
And I’m, still on your side
No bridges are burned
But would it be okay
If I rapped about Some of my hurts?
It’s gon’ be okay if I’m this way
Better or worse
Just trying to multiply my talents
Til the Master returns

It’s okay to not be okay