One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket - Illogic

Lyrics by：J. Glass/K. Ballard

Composed by：A. Simon

I got a one way ticket

I don't know what I'mma do with it

One way ticket

So I'm thinking I should use it quick

One way ticket

I don't wanna be abusing it

One way ticket

So we write and hope the music sticks

Music sticks

But at last we are here

So the past that you fear

Will it last even here

Perhaps what you hear is the claps and the cheers

And that's what you hear

Yeah laugh through the tears

I wanna go where the sun never sets

Where class is based on respect

Far from the devil's rejects

Where pain is a memory and joy is normalcy

Where banishment's the resort of conformity

I wanna go where love is the foundation of living

Where we cherish what we receive

And polish what we're giving

Where children sing and dance

Shielded from struggle

Where you progress further the harder you hustle

I wanna go where I'm immersed in bliss

Where my wife's kiss is the alarm

That wakes me from my slumber

Where we use our brains to fight

Not fists

So we can find peace in the beauty

Of lightning and thunder

I wanna go where my sons are the light of my day

Where they listen to what

I do and watch what I say

Where they see the honor in the times we pray together

And feel pride in the fact

That we pray together

Far far away from here

Yeah that's the ticket

So can you help me out on my one way ticket

Heard that heaven's really off the chain

We can kick it

I'm out here tryna hustle for my one way ticket

Far far away from here

Yeah that's the ticket

So can you help me out on my one way ticket

Heard that heaven's really off the chain

We can kick it

I'm out here tryna hustle for my one way ticket

I wanna go where the truth has no footnotes

Where the most it's no surprise that hope floats

Where what we say on mics is tuned to the key of life

Where we're willing to pay the cost no matter the price

I wanna go where hip hop is how we live and how we walk

What we wear the books we read and how we talk

Not what set we claim

Or the length of our chain

But a medal of honor beyond a musical genre

Wanna go where I can breathe

And lead a nicotine dependence

That's a feat in itself

But I'll take it by inches

Where the land and free

And home of the brave comes to it's senses

And comes to it's own people's defenses

Where our leader is competent

And wouldn't wave a flag of mission accomplished

If his people are still in fear of bomb threats

Where we know we're role models

So our words our conscious

Never underestimate those who see through nonsense

Far far away from here

Yeah that's the ticket

So can you help me out on my one way ticket

Heard that heaven's really off the chain

We can kick it

I'm out here tryna hustle for my one way ticket

Far far away from here

Yeah that's the ticket

So can you help me out on my one way ticket

Heard that heaven's really off the chain

We can kick it

I'm out here tryna hustle for my one way ticket

I wanna go where my friends are my friends

Because they love me

Not for who I am

Or what they can take from me

Where silence is priceless

Where the breeze that walks through the leaves

Of the trees is free of crisis

I wanna go to the sky and hold stars in each hand

Place a bow around the moon as a gift to my mother

So she never questions or doubts

That I love her

Where I can be an island of refuge for each of my brothers

I wanna go where reality is fantasy incarnate

Where loving and being loved is harmless

A place where children can relax

Because their fathers are men

So their lives can be balanced

From the day it begins

I wanna go where women respect themselves

So they're respected

Where their virtue is praised and protected

Just wanna go to a place where somebody cares

Then it hits me

If I walk by faith then I'm already there