Changes from STEREO(L) by Graphic Melee

Changes
Heard that song start to play
Took me back into the days
Before a time when takin lives had took you to a place
That the mind can’t reshape. Feel your pain in every note
The way you’d smile and sing as the melodies float
So much hope hiding all the hurt
Got it out the mud still driving in the dirt
Make it work by any means
You know the theme
Every picture painted ain’t as simple as it seems
Big dreams of degrees
But handed the keys that unlock the door to more PTSD
Now he ain’t who used to be. Who didn’t chose to be
But had to make the choices that he made before his future’s reached
Type of intellect that few could teach
Droppin gems that make jeweler geek
Knowledge plus wisdom in the truth he’d speak
But he couldn’t break the cycle that he’s doomed to repeat

Changes
Time changes
Time changes everything

Driving just the other day round by your mother stay
Heard that you got caught in something and turned the other way
Opposite of that right direction missed the right connections
Growing up I heard making 25 is a blessing
Everybody ain’t still around that was with me for that lesson
So I’m making a meaning and a purpose for every second
Cuz it’s been ten years since you sent a text message
And the times only getting longer like a rubber band stretching
Distance…
What I’m hearing when I listen
As the memories turn into faded visions
Like an old photo no longer showing the mirror the image
And time separating us growing more by the minute
Say so long and life goes on
Wish I didn’t have to put another name in a song 
Like we put your name up in lights and we’re singing along
Keep the memory alive and you’ll never be gone

• Hip Hop
• Hip-Hop
• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Rap
• underground hip hop
• Portland