Wake up dress up confidence chest up
Trust in ya struggle gotta hustle as you step up
Step through get through hardships and all its
Troubles gotta walk with the will and the promise
To make life betta for self and for whoever
You consider as forever never ever gon quit
Cause shit be getting crazy on the lately
1-80 yes maybe gotta turn it all around come legit
Equip with life lessons to getting ya mind focus
To step in ya grind load it with love ya betta hold it
Like a notice keep informed and focus on what it is
Hopin for the greater be a writer of the script
Survivah with a fist quick to fight in life to get
Ya rights and the pursuit of life and liberty to live
Unravel gems, travel like a captain of a ship
Immortalize your sweat that’s how infinite exist
Oh yes everyday push
Another day here gotta show em what’s good
Everyday shine in any way find
The energy you give with a purpose in mind
Its more than being fresh with the dress cause yes
This quest recommends that you must impress
With that authentic genuineness to press
Push hard like you on that success express
Leave stress… just let it go instead
Cause if it gets to you there goes ya best
Don’t hold ya breathe that’s a dose of death
You betta off cool calm like the coldest fish
On a swim while the river still flowing quick
You see it as a challenge not hop-e-less
Gotta exercise will with the skill you got
Let that energy spill still connect the dots
Be the coolest quarterback in that pocket dawg
And you elevating fast like a rocket launch
A lotta confi-donts with that work you put in
Overcoming doubt, that’s the sweat you push with
Oh yes everyday push
Another day here gotta show em what’s good
Everyday shine in any way find
The energy you give with a purpose in mind
From urban poor across shores to first world streets
Suburbs and back to where the boondocks be
The 99 grinds, it’s a time of need
And the assembly lines make you mindlessly
Be drones you getting owned, the CEO’s and greed
Go together like fight with the folks beneath
For a better life or what its supposed to be
Push while you fight to overthrow the beast
Oh yes everyday push
Another day here gotta show em what’s good
Everyday shine in any way find
The energy you give with a purpose in mind
credits
from Cities & Rivers,
released February 24, 2015
lyrics written and performed by A. delaCruz
beat and music composed by A. delaCruz
Prolific Mexico City rapper SPEAK ponders the self-isolated age on a booming EP, recorded live in his kitchen during quarantine. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 24, 2020