Smoke & Mirrors - eLZhi, Monica Blaire

Vow to make my reflection proud nigga

You should kick rocks and then take the cloud with you

If we have a record shot it’s not allowed on silence

Don’t talk louder than my preaching giving the crowd scripture

Have thoughts of running wild and being profiled with you

Then I smile as I if stand in my future child’s picture

I was exiled to put it mild

Probably caught up in common curveballs

Life was profound

Used to work at UPS

Moving boxes, shoes and watches

See my distant future in a vision

I ain’t use binoculars

In my eyes I seen dollars signs, joy, disappointment

African to son of god

Every blessing is anointed

I can see a prodigy

I can see Miletus

I can see a see a humble servant-haler

I can see in loss

Wasn’t taught to be a boss

Go to school make your A’s

Gt your masters find a job

Settle down take a raise

Behind the knob there’s a door for decisions you can open

Hoping that you pick the right one

And quite done, coping with the fact that you picked the wrong one

It hit you a like a strong ton of bricks

And you can’t fix a shortcut in the long run

Your friends who were foes, who didn’t know you were chose

You’re a king, you’re a diamond, you’re a comet, you’re a rose

You’re a pyramid

You appear up in Madrid

You appear in the Mid'

Life crisis

All I see, in the mirror while I smoke

To get in the proper headspace

In case there’s a test I gotta ace

Cause the racist thought I would be dead

In jail, or at home with an ankle brace…

When I’m top tier from angle spaced

Dropped here made a splash in the great lakes

Note the gator fashion

Players play the game till they fade and crashin'

Pray they pass the police to go east

Off of eight mile a mile

I’ve seen a businessman, they killed em where his trials is

See a scientist, an alien, the purest form of savagery

The strategy is plain — get on some land an live lavishly

I told a nigga crew, sometimes I see a failure

Other times I a see a warrior

I can see euphoria and

Flashbacks of Gloria who said i wouldn’t be shit

In my living room a month after my mom’s passed

Pops held her back though he fed into her lies

Years go I’m still affected

I can see it my eyes

Like the marijuana leaf that kief by myself

In a mirror for a clearer understanding of my health

Mentally I can see I was meant to be a threat

Its in my eyes I see red when I’m physically upset…

Getting lost in my reflection

I can see respiration then I see recollection

Now I see resurrection

I’m a champ I’m a leader I’m a prophet I’m a rebel

I’m a dragon, I’m a beast if a stoop to your level

On my block I’m a paradox I’m a pandora’s box

Filled with rocks couple Glocks

Blood money for some stocks

I can see an open mic off of 7 mile and 40

Used to battle up in Coney

They don’t know me

Y’all destroy your student body

Catch a case and I might have to call a lawyer

Just to beat it

You don’t see a phoenix?

You don’t see my aura?

You don’t see a legend

You don’t see a glow as its turning as it’s turning

Can you see what I see?

I can see a passion burning…

Like the marijuana leaf that I kief by myself

In a mirror for a clearer understanding of my health

Mentally I can see I was meant to be a threat

Its in my eyes — I see a red one when I’m physically upset

Getting lost in my reflection

I can see respiration

Then I see recollection

Now I see resurrection

Now I see…

Ohhh ohhh ohhhhhhhh

Oh whoooa

Yeahh yeahhh hey hey hey

Yeah

Ohhh ohhh ohhhhhhhh…