Lessons - Locksmith, Braden Blair

Such a beautiful setting, life’s good

My music’s finally spreading

Looking back on the time when I wasn’t getting the recognition deserved but I’m

hanging on by a threading

I’m letting go of the guilt and the pain that I once carried, could’ve been a

victim myself but escaped barely

I, rarely make excuses, look what he endured, my girl left the same week I had

to leave on tour.

Damn

And they say that it’s perfect timing just think of all the women you’ll meet

in them cities rhyming

But I’m lying if I said I was over it right away cause everything you do in

dark comes out in the light of day

I had to readjust my thoughts, put me first.

I lost myself and my relationship,

it could be worse

But instead he works with more passion than I started with, rather say it now

than resent you because I harbored it

Guarded by my goals, blinded through what I’m searching for, lost a couple

friends but it’s something more that I’m working towards

Certain rewards that you get when you just forget to care, chasing down someone

that’s chasing something that isn’t there

And to myself that just isn’t fair we all deserve to be happy, I mean who isn’t

scared?

This for my niggas still with me that’s bearing this, what good is having

success when there’s no one to share it with?

So long, so long, how do I stay so long?

No matter what it takes hold on

No matter what it takes go on

And it feels like it’s more than I can handle, so what am I suppose to do when

life loops like a sample?

And I throw away my crutch

And I try to clutch when it’s cancelled

Nothing left there but despair, no one’s substantial

And people only see what they want to see

When they want to, I try not to judge

Cause you never know what they’re going through

Going through what is possibly just a phase

Are these rappers better than me?

I would contemplate it for days

I stayed in my place unaware of the damage

When you loyal to a fault, some people will take advantage

I, managed to get out of the deal I was once in, so what makes you think I

would rush to do it again?

If I ever look back, that’s the moment I stumble

There’s a very thin line between insecure and humble, huh

Between cocky and confident

But I’m still here so I take both as a compliment

So long, so long, how do I stay so long?

No matter what it takes hold on

No matter what it takes go on

So long, so long, how do I stay so long?

No matter what it takes hold on

No matter what it takes go on