Antaeus Falls

If you have a fear you should face it now
I notice that there’s hatred round when my faith is down
I’m looking at my momma’s face, I wanna make it smile
It just takes a while, yeah
They say you can’t make the crowd make a sound
Face it child, change your sound, hang your towel
But I realize I make all of my greatest rounds when
I scrape the ground, it’s just
Where do I go from here
'Cause this mind that I have’s the new home for fear
What if I die now and then no one hears the songs that I make
Or they close their ears?
On one side of the coin I’m so revered
I could definitely flow with tears, yeah I know I’m weird
But on the other side of the coin
I’m just trying to make sure I see no more tears, I thought
I’d buy her a whip by now
I thought I’d buy her a house made of brick by now
With a tire and a white picket fence by now
But that reality just doesn’t exist right now, yeah
As crazy as this might sound
Every time I spit I’m proud
I just wish that I’ll
Just get out of my own way
So I can finally take over and get my crown, yeah
I’ve tasted defeat before, I’ve tasted defeat before
I know I have
All that I’m reaching for, all that I’m reaching for
Is not in my grasp
Pain wants to teach me more, pain wants to teach me more
I fall and I crash
You’ve taken everything that I have, all that I ask is
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my, don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
There’s a whole big Earth spinning
It feels like I’m the only one that’s cursed in it
I pick up a pen and pad and start getting mad
'Cause I end up hating
What’s rehearsed in the first minutes, dang I’m my worst critic
Surprised I ever get a verse finished
There’s a demon at work with a thirst causing hurt in it
I wrote this verse to converse with it
I couldn’t get it to convert or revert from the church visits
But be certain, I’m working this magic to
Nurture the purpose, the curtain is crashing
Searching for worth 'fore I’m dirt in a casket
'Cause I don’t wanna burst from my perch into ashes
Don’t wanna be a jerk or a has-been
A person deserting his passion, it hurts to imagine
Putting in all of this work and then not
Have the thirst or the firmness to grasp it
But every single line I’ve chopped, the mind I’ve got
Gets tied in knots from writer’s block
I’m tweaking my rhymes a notch and trying to plot
A way that I can climb the top, no time to stop
They’ll all be alive to watch me make it
I don’t care if I’m signed or not
Maybe if I find a quiet spot, I can walk
Past these giant clots of violent thoughts, it’s just
I don’t ever really feel fulfilled
It’s like I’m eating but never feel full
And I don’t really care how these fools feel
And the other part of me just feels full, I’m just fearful
That I can’t make it to the last level in time, it’s too late
Inside a huge weight, I really just need to go and
Find my true strength and find a new way (for real)
I’ve tasted defeat before, I’ve tasted defeat before
I know I have
All that I’m reaching for, all that I’m reaching for
Is not in my grasp
Pain wants to teach me more, pain wants to teach me more
I fall and I crash
You’ve taken everything that I have, all that I ask is
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my, don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live
(I've given everything that I have
What more do you want from me?
I gave money, I gave my time, I cut people off
All just so I can see this pay off)
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna (Day after day)
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna (There's nothing I have left to give)
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Please don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna
Don’t take my feet off the ground
Just don’t take my feet off the ground, I wanna live