[Verse 1]What a day, what a day is something that we might say
But you're still up working too much, I think I found a gray
You treat yourself way too harsh and way too hard
When everyone around you has got dropped down jaws
I'm not trying to tell you that you need to slow down
But you're working like a slave when you've already got a gold crown
It hurts to be looking from the outside in
Seeing you walking on pins working in the dim with your stress at the brim
And this is isn't me trying to play any funny games
This is me noticing you putting in overtime and getting underpaid
Even if you fail once, you've already succeeded
I hate seeing you defeated and depleted. You don't really need it
You've parted oceans and seas and took to the skies
I'm proud of you regardless even if you only tried
So fly back home. It's getting real late.
We made you dinner and it's getting cold on your plate

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

[Verse 2]
Straight As, GPA, grade made protege
But when do you find the time to just play?
Life shouldn't be about the awards on your chest
It should be about doing the things that you love best
This is vastly all about the good times gladly
Living and looking classy if you want to ask me
Because when I meet my end, I don't want five friends
Talking around my grave about how my time spent
Quit beating yourself up. I can see your bruises
And you don't have to be perfect. You don't need those excuses
Being happy with yourself is probably the hardest
And I know that you might not want advice from a starving artist
But it took me 18 odd years to convince to like me
And now I can look at myself in the mirror much kindly
I hope in the end you can flash yourself a smile
It looks much better on you anyways: it really fits your style

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

[Verse 3]
Let me lift up my cup, I shall raise my chalice
To the girl who has turned a house into a palace
Intelligence abundance, and though it's redundant
You're over 9 thousand! No where near the hundreds
I want to toast you tonight, and tomorrow and after
Let's capture your laughter inside some nice chapters
Pictures with trophies they sure look nice
But you're here with us and you look better tonight
Your mind is stunning and you are never stunting
But still defying gravity girl you are something!
Knock out in a dress, beautiful in some jeans
Whatever you wear, doesn't matter, you will still beam
I'm not blowing smoke: I don't like cigarettes
I don't even want to hear you say that word regret
Because you've gotten this far and I'm well damn impressed
Now let's keep making bonds like we're about to invest

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

A Song About A Girl

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 1]
And I find myself wishing it never happened
If only I could sit down and retype the things I imagined
Too selfish to leave your life, but I'm only there halfway
Don't want to commit but I'll listen on your bad days
Failed to utter the words that you so desperately needed
Used you as an ego boost even though I'm conceited
Now sitting around the keyboards feeling real defeated
Existing only in blog posts without proper nouns
Keep thinking about you, can't even count the times now
Wish washy, flip floppy
You were just to cute for anyone to stop me
We both made mistakes. Mine were a lot bigger
And our status shifts as if I'm the prince talking to gravediggers

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 2]
I never wanted it for us to be curtains
I'm stabbing them up like behind them is another person
But enough of this oblivious Hamlet shit
Can't keep living this life so damn blind and so ignorant
Because all I have are words, words, words
But I bet all you heard is disturbed nerd blurbs
What else am I supposed to do? That's what I'm good at
Keep conjuring lies and excuses out of thin facts
The impending increases along with distance
And I bet all your friends now hate me in an instant
Shake me like a polaroid, just a dumb human boy
Repeat to myself that feelings are not meant to be a toy
We're like one giant abyss: we just avoid

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 3]
I swear to God I never meant for all of this
But I also swear I was in the biggest bliss
The best thing for us is to just move on
Yet I keep staying up waiting for a new dawn
Just whisper in my ears again, maybe we can just be friends
I never wanted this to end, but I'm feeling too spent
If only I could change, if only I could rearrange
If only if only is only written in my page
The human heart is so damn powerful
Capable of lifting up the most doubtful
And take down the strongest in just a mouthful
So say it to me in your tone that's so vow full:

Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

Red Hunting Cap

[Verse 1]
This is the one thing that makes me feel redeemed
Coupon status, mad at us? Ignoring the chatter seems
To be the only strategy when one hand writes poetry
And the other writes only in the dreamiest of realities
Semis 3 times but never an automatic
Gawky kid spastic, wordplay fanatic, almost fantastic
For your information. Break me out of plastic
Enemy to Majora because I'm trying not to mask it
Never following the stereotypes. I'm surrounding the sound
My heart pound is the bass now and it's getting loud
I'm tallying up my hours. Not even close to the limit
So I'm going to live it until my painting becomes vivid
Parents so livid that my life is dedicated to the arts
But it's hard to stop when you start and every single part
That you would cut into me would bleed lyrics and paint
But just like cutting my wrists, this will all make you faint

[Verse 2]
I've always felt mediocre compared to my peers
And the only time I gave an F is when at the final I failed to appear
So this is me starting it up, key in the ignition
Writer's block in remission, Trusting only the intuition
Tired of the lectures. Tired of the yelling
Tired of being a disappointment but there is no telling
How my future will turn out. I'm trying to craft it barehanded
An ambidextrous ambition is the only thing demanded
I will not be reprimanded for choosing happiness over the latter
I will never break nor shatter. This is mind over matter
This is heart and the soul. This is attitude and mentality
This is the gallery of my entire being without puff or flattery
My fingerprints are left in the dust of words long forgotten
Craggy fingertips gripping memories almost rotten
To try and transform my personal poison into antidote
Treated as empirical since this is the prince's anecdotes

[Verse 3]
Supported like girders in between my fragile flesh
The hardware is there. The gridiron and the tenderness mesh
You cannot match the freshness stored inside his chest
I've been studying myself for years, so go ahead and test.
The recipe for this is 2 parts wisdom, 3 parts fool
9 pints of liquid courage and let the bravado just cool
A dash of naivety but added in by shaky hands
Heavy with idealism and optimism. Far from bland
It's alright if he is burned. It leaves merely a char
Regardless, you will be tasting the stars
With feet that stand with the tenacity of The Tank Man
The parking lot of his head will never be vacant
Hands overactive with turning pages and scribbling
And scars left from 2 parents and 3 older siblings
You are about to partake in viewing behind the curtain
Despite the name calling he is a person, for certain.

Unlocked

[Verse 1]
They told me tighten up my game so I'm right against the lames
Who don't even know my name but know I hold this deer like reins
Who is this? Alex Dang? Who is this? Depends on your lane
Pick a side, choose a brain. One virtue and one bane
I tighten this up like tuning keys on my violin
Flow like Poseidon and stay on point: Trident
Rapid show? Try again. Rhymin with leviathans
Pious lion about to get rich or die with the Mayans
Used to have that long hair, switched up for the grown man
I can sell my own jams. No need for Willy Loman
The view from my bridge is so damn beautiful
Never being miserable but my life's still musical
As I rap I got in the back a dope ass ensemble
Kick it with me after the show for a classic convo
Something that you remember, goes past the ages
It'll strike down Alzheimer's and unlike Vegas
You're gonna wanna tell everybody about me and you
Tweet it from the mountains: OMG he so cool
Never thought he'd be a gentlemen with perfect meter too
And he's still in school? Educated man: oh damn is it true?
I got game like a rainy day afternoon


[Verse 2]
Confidence brimming every time I'm grinning
Even from the beginning I've been at least kind of winning
Talented and Gifted, style is so fitted
Popping TAGs so much like it's my professional business
Gray suede on the shoes, Neck and my cut is like my crew
Myriad of labels like a tabloid knowing who is who
Rapping like it's easy, no girl, believe me
Macaroni air conditioner: I'm cheesy and breezy
Whisper lines in your ears but now all of your peers
Might wanna sink this relationship, oh that's weird
Maybe they're all a little bit jealous
They don't have fellas, just zealous of our hella
Swagger back and forth just like a swap meet
Don't pay attention to them. Go ahead and mock me
At the end of the day just suck on my cockiness
Looks can kill and I might just have to body this
Came to box, leave in a bag, so certain, so sad
I'm holding the banner and you wave your white flag
Pimp like a cane and thus we are so able
You aren't my oxygen and time isn't your label
You're never running out on me, for that I thank you