Permission

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold

 

Like freezing rats, I detonate rooms, let them choke on their opinions

While I suck the oxygen out, Picasso didn’t ask for your approval, bitches

He distorted the world and dared you to keep up, I don’t paint within your lines

Let them write their critiques, some coward in a corduroy jacket can clutch his pearls

Over my ethics, you think I lose sleep over it, well I don’t bro

The real crime is playing by the rules when you can rewrite them instead

The Wright brothers broke every law of gravity before they flew over our heads

Criminal, no, revolutionary, nobody climbs Everest in a conga line

I’ve been called everything, that must mean I’m doing it right

History doesn’t remember the polite, it remembers the unapologetic

Ask any motherfucker who realizes they’re worth more than what they’re getting

Don’t project your limits onto my ambition, I’m not your mirror

I’m your reckoning, my choices offend you, good, your sensibilities

Are paper thin, this isn’t a safe space, this is the apex predator’s den

Ask yourself why you’re still prey, hate is currency, I don’t need your shit

My voice is a trigger, I mutter and you shudder, I conquer, I’m the commander

I’m the fuckin’ transformer, you go after extension cords like an adapter

Of your inner quitter, trying to critique me, your words are litter and mine are levers

You’re the the observer with no power but too much fervor

You chase clout like a beggar, grasping for revelvance, I’m the neck breaker

You’re a repeater, you hate me because I’m the mirror, you see what you fear

Someone better without permission, effort isn't character, and whining isn’t clever

You’re a bystander, I’m the motherfucking master planner, they say I’m bitter

Bitch I’m better, sharper than your favorite professor, you tremble when I enter

 

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold

 

You follow the law while I reinvent the ledger, I’m the jury and the butcher

And every ruling I make is written in steel, you want justice, I want leverage

If ambition were illegal, I’d be on the FBI’s most wanted with warrants

And war stories, I’m a climber, you wait for green lights, I run red

I don’t lose, I convert it into fuel, resetting the world under your nose, leave you upset

They tell me I’m burning so bright it blinds you, laws were implemented

To cage people like me, but laws are written in ink, power is written in bone

I walk through rooms and watch the temperature drop, not because I’m cold

But because your self worth can't handle the heat of being near someone

Who doesn’t need you, critics line up like their five star Yelp bum

Mentality applies here, let them dissect my every move while I bulldoze through

Legacy, keep watching, I’ll give you something to fear next, dude

I came here to reign, and if that makes me a villain in your bedtime story

Then kiss the ring and keep crying, call it criminal, genius, horror

Call it whatever helps you sleep while I conquer, you were never meant to

Make it this far, I’m the hammer, you’re the splinter, I wasn’t born better

I became better, the order giver, I’m the generator of power

I’m a throat grabber and a goal crusher, I amplify, your comfort zone

Is my fucking killbox, I’m the handler, spiraling upward like a hurricane bro

That’s hungry for heaven, power pressed into bone, I'm the final version

I’m the motherfucker who doesn’t blink when pressure turns others

Into shivering stammerers, think I care what you think, I’m the decider

Global disruptor, I’m orbiting Earth while you orbit your refrigerator

I’m the power generator, you’re the background character

 

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold

I didn’t claw my way to the summit just to ask permission to breathe

Power is seized, it’s wrung from the necks of those too meek

To hold it, greatness kicks the door off its hinges, the higher you go

The fewer voices you hear, let the masses huddle together in the cold