ROANE - Wilderness

Intro:

Heaven is right here with you

Heaven is right here with you

with you, with you

Heaven is right here with you

Heaven is right here with you

I’m in love with you

 

Verse 1:

A moment of haze

I peer into darkness, it mimicks my gaze

Now how I can I live a life worthy of living if all of my thoughts have been shrouded in grey

I’ve not been the same

Since I was exploring religion in a system decided by grades

But now that I finally feel well informed I can visualize where I’ll be spending my days

I’ve not been the same

When I was a youngin my mama took me to the church and we prayed

And all I could think of was how many knees gotta bow before I can get back to my games

I’ve not been the same

When I was in college I thought that the meaning of life was ingrained

I thought that my value would come from the friends that I trust and the fam that provided the way

But I’m still not the same

It’s eating my mind how often I think of His Heavenly grace

But what is the meaning of life, if death can arive from a person highjacking a plane

I know it’s cliche

But how can I trust in a Man that’s providing my life with this pain?

I ain’t got the answers I’m just tryna focus on how I can make it through another day, and thats why

 

Hook:

I wander alone in this wilderness

Ive chosen this road Im familiar with

I know that youre calling me home again

But I run (x2)

 

Verse 2:

To all of the people that make me feel like I’m a God

I want to provide

For all of my friends and my family, I want the credit, I want them in awe

Of all of the things I can do without help from the Man that looks down from above

I swear that my God

is tryna teach me how to live and be humble, though pride is a part of my job

I ain’t got the answers for all that have struggled through pain, I could never relate to your cause

I know that your life is important, but nobody else seems to cherish the life that you’ve got

I know I should stand with my brothers against all injustice, and protest against every law

But honestly hearing your stories about it’s the only time brutality’s in my thoughts

So I been tryna find a better way to be helpful, a moment is all that I’ve got

A moment in history that I can build on my own, a narrative for all the lost

But how do I gain the attention of people that yearn for a change without changing a lot?

How can I build up a platform that reaches the heavens, if heaven ain’t something I’ve sought?

But you know

 

Beat Switch:

 

Ugh, i get so distracted look at my flow

Thing so thicc you gone need a little boat

Bars so hot, sun ain’t needed no mo

Money gettin crunched like Cinnamon toast

Pin your girl down, we dont even need to bowl

Getting big mad when she dreaming of my home

I could pull up like skrr skrr

Knock knock man you know the king is at your door

Hold up, man I been playing games all week

It’s a game till a man’s stayin on one knee

Hold up, man I been tryna hold my peace

Chalk up the deuce when y’all don’t know what I mean

I been out here tryna find a better way to

Communicate the ways that I can save you

Rona got me thinking how to thank you

But really I’m the same, ain’t that a shame dude?

Woah

Whatcha really want in your life?

I want a way to find joy if I can’t ever be right

I want a way to find peace without steel in my life

I want a way to navigate the wall that’s blocking my sight

I ain’t a victim I’m a human being

Focusing on what he’s seeing

Change ain’t coming quick enough to trust in God, so Carpe diem

Know He’s coming back and when I hear the trumpets, I’ll be thinking

Shame and my despair in equal measure when I start to flee Him

 

Hook:

I wander alone in this wilderness

Ive chosen this road Im familiar with

I know that youre calling me home again

But I run (x2)

 

Verse 3:

 

I used to wonder what it’s like

To be one of the illest spitting on the mic

I was wishing for this life til I made it to the top

Found out I’m afraid of heights

Is success a gift, a curse

When I’m depressed but progressed to rip the verse

But what can I say, never play

Can’t mess with the kid when he read, no Christopher

How much time I got left on this planet,

Damn it, I’m far from grateful

I cannot horse around, I’m clearly unstable

These letters spin around my head like a dreidel

What ultimatum between goin volcano

Or succumb to this situation that’s fatal

Will I accept my dreams are simply a fable

Pick up my cards and walk away from the table?

NO

That could never be me

I could never settle with these devils tee hees

Rather put my pedal to the metal we speed

Imma win a medal for my fellows indeed

Hello I’m like Donatello cuz I get green

Pull strings like a cello do it for the team

But if I’m alone what the hell does that mean?

I don’t need nobody Imma do it for me!

 

Beat Switch:

 

Cuz I’m extremely dedicated

not uneducated

But I go dumb like people who want us segregated

Agitated and you aggravated

And you mad I made it

If they hating I don’t even wanna conversation

Said I can’t be famous, then I dominated

Keep it 4 4 like Obama baby

Presidential suite Im not inaugurated

Flow so sick it’s so nauseating

 

Hook:

I wander alone in this wilderness

Ive chosen this road Im familiar with

I know that youre calling me home again

But I run (x2)