Silent Art Child - Chino XL

I don’t know whether it was the Ritalin

Or he was just spaced out but

He just sat there writing words and, didn’t make any sense

Maybe got too rough with him but

Times were different and look how he turned out

He turned out okay, yeah it was okay

Yeah, my slow mind races on auto-pilot

Reachin my arm’s limitation, born a baby giant

Wishing my mom used birth control so I scream in silence

It’s bittersweet, enough time to be wickedly good, as a dull diamond

My voodoo science is terribly please live in death, tragic comedies

Uncrowned king of wordless books and forgotten memories

It’s a victimless crime, I want a virgin birth

An uncommonly normal unwelcome greeting I receive for this Earth

It’s a religious war, my music’s a complete success

It’s the audience that’s a failure, am I wastin my breath?

A wise fool possess drowning in the dry pool of bliss

You thank God you’re an atheist, my writing shits on Macbeth

School interferes with education

Only thing I don’t procrastinate with is procrastination

Oxymoron, you got Van Gogh’s ear for music, true fiction

I’m thinkin out loud — using dumb wisdom

Silent art child

I’ve been overlooked, and I’ve been shitted on

Step-father broke my jaw, my momma kicked me out

Lived in the graveyard, was almost down and out

Had women break my heart, was cursed before I start

But still I had my art, I cried in the dark

And my control of words, is all that I got

So I am satisfied, since it’s a gift from God

I’m gonna share with y’all, the silent art child

It’s easy to just sit there and judge me

But you weren’t there, I’m his mother

I was in the projects taking care of his so-called creative ass

To just say that I sat there and did nothing is really heavy

They say that no one loves a genius child

As quoted by Langston Hughes invited exile

I’m not okay, I’m a beautiful beast imprisoned while with a frowned smile

Blood healed, awaken dreams, crucified spittin violent vows

Lying vows, standing bows, optimistic pessimism

Blind justice, eyes without sight, claimin to have vision

I’m like an angry corpse that is dancin in his own grave

A fully mixed Mulatto son of master half of freed slaves

Write my wrongs, silent songs, taking paralyzed steps

I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left

You gave me nothing to live up to, how could I disappoint?

I stood in the way of you bein dead, my strongest weakest point

Abused cause I didn’t do what you told me to do

When you didn’t know what you were doing, all high and confused

My silent art child, smart heart scarred

Keeps me lovin you knowin you gonna hurt me, you’ve done it before

Y’all don’t deal with that

I mean in the end what does it matter?

I refuse to allow anyone to make me feel any way about my life

It’s my son, my life

Yeah, an honorable villain and damn saint

That’s brutally comforted in my sick health, and baptized in hate

I tried not to think, I quietly just wrote my rhymes

Abuse casted a shadow that has lasted a lifetime

Questionable answers that’s for my humble arrogance

Exposed to virtuous lies, taught with ugly attractiveness

Classy ratchetness, parents unconscious competence

Busy relaxin, I’m an on-purpose accident with no past defense

Feared like poor millionaires living in Hell’s paradise

We’re alone together in this organized mess I write

Sky raining mute, idle chatter, bad angels sound

Rival containing vital viral matter, clouds