Shelter (Prod. Nathaniel Keith)

[VERSE 1]

Sometimes I missed what I hated

Sometimes I feel like I've been following basic, y'know?

Sometimes I never thought i'd come this far from the basement

With all the blood, sweat and empathy I put in to make it

 

And now they say that

"Zach, you're finally gonna be somebody"

I wasn't before?

My parents pushin' me to study what they can't afford

 

I'm a barricading board

always blockin' off all the doors

some hobby's feeling like chores

 

and it's up to me to be digging these people out from the earth

20 layers in dirt, just blinded from what they're worth

I've been feeling the same from the day of my fuckin' birth

and I never wanted to be just another kid on the surface

 

I know it's hard to envision it

every morning's no different

'causing so much anxiety

you're depending on cigarettes

 

Tryna explain your path to them is basically talking gibberish

I promise that I have a message

How do I deliver it?

 

(BREAK)

 

[VERSE 2]

It all had started with some shelter

that you had never gave to me

agencies pulling my puppet strings like they're made to be

aimlessly shooting for goals that are insane to me

 

Paving to be the greatest you that is within your veins and see

nothing is out of range to be someone more than you think you are

Tryna rebuild the confidence after it has been picked apart

Now we're losing our balance and feeling distant from different stars

 

You're more than you think you are

We're born with ignorant hearts

This story we live in is a system

that we cannot restart

so let's take control

and show the globe just who the fuck we are...

 

to me that's art

and Imma follow it

sick of bottling all of it,

even when it's dissolving

 

[VERSE 3]

It's just temporary relief

Living within a guideline, I'm hiding behind of me

Staying true to your mind, but you're lying outside your teeth

when i'm dying, hurting and bleeding,

was never one to believe

 

I'm exposing this side of me

with no choice, i'm fuckin' erupting

reminiscing these moments

just hoping that it was something

 

overthinking, I'm wondering

If we amounted to nothing

I'm dizzy, sick when i'm buzzing off love

that tends to be one with some depletion

 

'cause when I open they're leaving and

All of you help me see again

Find me within

Pain that i've been keepin' in

every single season and

i'll see you then

 

[OUTRO]

"It never changes, a world with just me but... It's not sad.

Thank you"