Grits — People Noticin Me

Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby For noticing me When people notice me, I notice them right back Acknowledge the fact, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be where I was at Which is nowhere fast, my destination - zero Never decor of medals, don't own a cape, can't be known as hero Nothing which is idle, nada partner, fledgling, weakling, a mere sapling Catch for breath, I resort to grappling Appalling, calling to my peers, who keep on falling Let's put this junk in reverse, before matters get any worse Standing on the shores of Orion, wishing someone would hold my hand Dreading being alone, being a failure, trying to stand on my own Got a dysfunction crunch in my rib cage, anxiety attacks Looking back, turn to a pillar of salt, while all the while thinking it's not my fault Position I've been placed in versus conditions that I'm facing It's on me, too bad, this thing sounds like a task too great for kings Switch it, widget, as I guessed, that's what mind and body professed Obstacles turned up every day, gotta make the grade to pass the test Candidate in the poll, dabbing, propping all the voters It's been ordained that I be noticed Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me I exercise with the vocals Apply verbal chokeholds to theological minds, who try to unfold these written analysations of themes seen through the eyes of X, the generation of next To lead this nation to it's destiny Seems to me, the rate the world I going, I see hell around the corner People doing what they wanna Like Sodom and Gomorrah, the horrors coming clearer See my life on borrowed time, in the future, in the mirror I see fear of never making it Concentration has a break in it Having fits, frustrated from incompetence, or complications as a speaker of truth When people noticing you, it seems to never get through But if I stumble and fall, my call in all that I achieve in the light of God's direction stripped from me, I count it blessed today To chase the spirit of my being, to had it all, so I can see without it on My only need was peace in Christ, so y'all can see my contention In blessings of light, with no possessions Will you be noticing me when I'm nothing? Baby, will you be noticing me? Will you be noticing me? Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me Now I hear you holler 'bout your people, but I think you forgot I wonder if Damien knows that 2Pac got shot, or if he cares 'Cause we the brothers up under the stairs While you holler 'bout you daytons and meaningless conversations See, I don't care if you get high or blunted I get you hotter than a SP1200 I'm standing firm like Tom Cruise, cut out the booze, and I don't work for work now So Farrakhan, stay out of the church, I put in the work It's Count Bass with the Grits It's like this y'all It's like that y'all And we never fall, you know what I'm saying? Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me I'm still gonna just keep running it There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me Thank the Lord for people noticing me There once was a time, seemed I didn't exist The world turned crazy Don't treat me shady, baby People noticing me