verse 1 i can smell success in the air i can taste it tip of my tongue and i'm liking the fragrance i like the trimmings and the women that come with it i like the speed of life it's in the rhythm i like to kick a limerick to a drumbeat writing rhymes in my room while the sun sleeps it's in my nature when i love it, i’m obsessive slow perfection a sense of the desperate i need to rise and exceed expectation the dreams of a nation the seed of my patience you watch the birth from the cracks of the surface at first it's a nervous growth, but it spurts quick but i don't rap for the magic that can happen i rap for the tragedy i need to put a rap on i wanna be there when you're closing your eyes in the beat being played frozen in time and you can use it to make the bad go away because music has a way to make things dissipate some people get controlled by the scripture in the tune so guess who is pulling all the strings on you maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away maybe i will last until the end of the day maybe i will take what i think is mine maybe i’m a flame in my own right maybe i’m a ghost in the music played maybe i’m just a moment too late i can see it on the horizon now stop, stop maybe it's bye for now verse 2 i'm like the sand in the hourglass slipping to my fate i see the grains of life shifting into place through the problems on the way through the slimming in the waist the next chamber of my life a completely different age but i also hear them things the whispers in the wind and the ghosts of the problems that won't let us begin i've had loved ones come and go some stay until the end of it so who cares about the rest of it? i don’t give a f**k if you think that this ink that i write with is something i use to be selfish i'm doing this for every memory that i have regardless what they are either good either bad so tear me up spit me out i already live in doubt i've already given out every little single ounce of energy i have left in me trust me from this point on you can't touch me because everything that could have been has come along shook my dreams you don't even figure in with the digits that i riddle in so here begins the imminent moment, now i’m changing things changing the direction in which things seem to be spinning in so turn around face the front chase the future take a punch take a little more s**t scream until you break your lungs because when i stop making sound you know something's wrong i'm either dead or getting close maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away maybe i will last until the end of the day maybe i will take what i think is mine maybe i’m a flame in my own right maybe i’m a ghost in the music played maybe i’m just a moment too late i can see it on the horizon now stop, stop maybe it's bye for now verse3 i walk along wonder where the time goes i can only dream because in my mind i spy those things i need waiting for that moment to come i grab life by the horns and run and you can tell me that the sun just won't shine but i see it all the time maybe i'm a flame that's to go out but i don't think so somehow i don't think so somehow no i don't think so somehow maybe i'll become one of those who will fade away maybe i will last until the end of the day maybe i will take what i think is mine maybe i’m a flame in my own right maybe i’m a ghost in the music played maybe i’m just a moment too late i can see it on the horizon now stop, stop maybe it's bye for now