These Words Are Everything (Explicit)

These Words Are Everything - Jonwayne

1996

It was raining drops were cutting through the mist

I'm in the kitchen like a good kid

Hot chocolate

Draw booklets for profit

Grandad had some quarters for my project

Ever since I had an artist audience I swear'd to god that

I would body sh*t

Life is too short for modesty

I was tellin myself upon that balcony

My legs went through the bars steady swinging til the splinters came

I'm aiming for the top

Whenever I'm dropping mom even the mockups are hot

This sh*t is better than friendship

They never understand when I begin sh*t

I walk the lower field until the bell hits the wind

Its clicking like these groups of little kids when they get it in

But I don't need to play pretend when I play to win

Word to Benjamins

Word to everything these words are everything

Or maybe words are just my only thing

2006

Dilla died and I was living off his gift

I just heard donuts at the borders on the corner in La Habra

I was over all these people tryna tell me my aspirations were goners

I wrote my poem so I could stay in my zone

Thinking why go to church if I feel god in my home

Maybe I write because I feel the art in my bones

When I exorcise this demon I'm not thinking of those

It's 2010

I got some shows and I'm finally making friends

I'm on the cusp of something big and I can feel it

Everything has been building up to this moment I can steal it

I'm just a aphid in the crib speaking major

Lip service paid for

Showed the whole city what this wayniac is great for

Word to the kev machine

Word to everything these words are everything

Or maybe words are just my only thing

2016

I spent the last 2 years f**king up big dreams

You never know what you want until you get it

The future ain't set sometimes its the little things winning over these checks

I had the chance to sell out and I told them

Bout how words are everything

Much bigger than gold clouds

If I'm a shell of a man my words are empty

Ringing through the halls of my bones for near a century

Don't lecture me

I see that selling soul get better things

And maybe its just fear thats keeping me from better scenes

But I'm here one piece

An uncle and a beast

When they hit play they know that Imma feast so rest in piece

Married to the game but its complicated

I know just how it works if I was smart I'd get hella cake

Like if I throw a hook up on this beat it'd get hella plays

If I just said yes to all these fools I'd get hells paid

If only I could keep my mouth shut no enemies

But I don't see the point in knowing truth and not set it free

I can't both express myself then play the game

If you just can't handle what I say then don't say my name

Keep it out your mouth like a foot

Rappers babble like a young adult book

Look my trifocal looks could kill some dumb occult crooks

Burn a skull cook

If I come out retirement I got em all shook

Let me shake em then

Paperless stirring up emotions with my paper pen

If you getting this for free what you pay for then

Word to friends and them

Word to everything

But when I die I know my words will be my only thing