My son sits on my shoulder My greed dies content, my whole life starts over There's vomit on my favourite shirt, dribbling like he's Iverson My magnum opus, a brown cardigan with his matching loafers I've been watching life form in the petri dish, this must be how Prometheus felt Shit, all of this shit don't seem so meaningless now My ego drowns in empathy, the dream I had back in my teens Finally now Rip and the Ygb goes on
I spark it with the torch then I pass it Push my king in his chariot on a Sunday at the market Me and my shell toes walk proud down Avondale Road like it's Melrose The first time in 10 years that I've felt home I found hope in the mundane I fell deep in the well known That train clack in the background like Coltrane on the alto From Friday in a k-hole to Saturday at K-Mart Old days in a haze, my heydays in the hay barn I lay under the radar in the backyard @peace now at last Maybe all of this happiness shit ain't as hard as I act Can't really complain about nada Holy mother marijuana This kind of craziness make an atheist start to think about karma Start to see the chink in my armour Start to see myself in my father Start to free the hate that I harbour for him Appreciating my mother more His laughter like a sonata Composed by Charlie Parker Made in May you make a Monday like summer time in Sumatra Kind of divine I can't define. too hard to find the right word to write To rhyme it like I'd like, kinda like my life started over that night the light of my day Can't describe the type of cliche I feel I'm way too high to contain it. ain't no point in trying to explain it Thank you for the life that you gave me Quincy. Right On
I never felt like this, shit never smelt like this Crashed on the couch out for the count, down right out right bliss Anybody had'a ever told me life would turn out like this I would just thought that you were a shit-talking, self-righteous alchemist I was stuck up in my selfish learned helplessness Proud to never amount to shit, I was about to just give up on making this album I was in Melbourne down and out of it That drought almost drowned my gift, then I found my fix Changed me while I changed you, gave me what I gave you We were broke, we made do, then you made your debut Made me think that I been created only just to create you That made me want to really make use of my time, time to take two steps back And check back into the real world and accept that Music is not life, but at best, it reflects that And really my biggest success as a man isn't my best track Now let that sink in and see that it'll never get better than just that Give a shit about being the best rapper, I only wanna be the best dad Never gonna be the next Zappa, don't expect no respect back And I'll never let my regrets hang over your head, you can bet that Ever we get strapped then I'll get cash, if I gotta build a fucking meth lab. then so be it I was made by dope dealers, didn't mean that weren't dope leaders And even though they were both cheaters, my mother never kept no secrets And pops never kept no leashes on me like no polices And no teachers could tell that little 5 year old genius shit I had to step in it myself, I had to figure it out alone To really know how it felt, and after all the shit I smelt I still don't really know shit, I'm still only a grown kid Just hoping that I don't make the same mistakes that my folks did Be bogus if I told you that I knew what an adult is Cause really I was crying like a baby when I wrote this I was holding onto my nana's hand watching her eyes closing Same time that I watched yours open and the world just kept revolving So march on Quincy