DEFENDER'S RAP

• I'm a nobody
• Even my mom sometimes forgot me
• I consider myself a ghost to everybody
• Even so
• I refuse to gone on as the unnoticeable
• I refuse to die and let gravediggers be the only ones that show up to my funeral
• I admit I was too much of a coward to achieve my goals
• I use to give up, and just walk away before the announcer can even say go
• Well that's because, I never gave myself the chance to make myself important
• Yes I have the skills, but that doesn't matter when I'm showing them off behind a close curtain
• I can spend all day talking about how much I was a failure, there's so many ways to word it
• Let's just cut to the chase, I'm just trying to say, I'm done being worthless
• Someone came up to me and ask me
• Why you keep trying to be someone your not, It's like a peasant trying to be king
• And so I responded, "Cuz in the goodness of my heart, I refuse to let y'all believe
• that someone like me, a peasant, can't sit upon a royal seat
• I had to be my own motivation, I had no choice but to be self-confident
• Even so, I still feared, no matter what I do, no applause from the audience
• Even so, I will be recognize
• Like if i die, i refuse to let R.I.P be what they see upon my grave
• dead or alive, y'all gonna know my name
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• ok Let me tell y'all where I'm coming from
• Metaphorically, they are giants to me, I'm smaller than everyone
• And yes they are the ones I look up at, but the way I see it I am what they look down upon
• In other words, I'm an ant to a boot, I'm afraid to get stepped on
• I was that kid in school
• That sat in the back of the classroom
• No one knows of my existence
• Until row call, "Marquis Johnson? 'Present'"
• Then everybody looks back shocked, then mouths dropped
• It's like those cartoons when something unexpected happens
• they be like ''gasp", and time stops
• But it wasn't long for my presence to be nullified from their minds
• I was already dead to them, I'm just not living a ghostly life
• But It's al'ight, I don't pay them no mind
• I just sit back, get a notebook, write music
• to my heart's content
• Don't even give one thought to the teacher, like the lesson to me is irrelevant
• I be in my own world, but just me, cuz everybody else I'm afraid to welcome
• No doubt, I will be judged, but I just can't take that kind of criticism
• Think of me like a soldier in the front lines who is afraid to enter battle
• Or better yet, a glass in a box, What you doing?You just can't pick me up, I'm fragile