Tinfoil Crowns

[Verse 1]
I'm a round peg in a square world: a goddamn cliche
Everything I say is tinted in yesterday's phrase
But eventually my today will be a next week term
In turn I'll burn like when I yearn and learn
That sometimes girls are a distraction that I earn
Because beauty in motion is something I observe
Talk with an awkward walk, nod with a proper gawk
Slender splendor with suspenders that I rock
I write about what I know. Then from there I just flow
So I depict an image of me approaching you real slow
Hoping that I don't open with a broken focus
You'll notice that the bogus isn't a bit for showbiz

[Chorus] x2
What I'm really about is trying to stay down
Keep my heart matching like my feet to the ground
Hear that p-pound, p-pound, p-pound, p-pound
And my name remains golden until I get crowned

[Verse 2]
Girls make me nervous, rapping makes me nervous,
Performing makes me nervous. Goddamn I'm really nervous!
But of course on the surface the purpose of worthless
is diminished and finished so I live it real calm like a tortoise
My life's a balancing act of poetry and rap
Trying to discern fiction from fact as I pick at my cracks
The bigger the gash, the higher the cash.
Exploit my own weaknesses and eventually it'll pass
Like I did with math class and all that nonsense
Packed in my conscious and yet I don't have the foggiest
Idea or notion of what my knowledge has for me
Scholarships got me sailing very choppy seas
I envy those who already know what they want in the future
While this loser is induced by trying to remain a booster
My direction is up! I try to yell to my demons
This season the treason of reason is countered by believing


[Chorus] x2
What I'm really about is trying to stay down
Keep my heart matching like my feet to the ground
Hear that p-pound, p-pound, p-pound, p-pound
And my name remains golden until I get crowned

[Verse 3]
I try so hard to impress the girls around me
The effort that I put in could have had astounding
Results if I put it into something real useful
Like solving cancer, finding answers to life. But let's be truthful
The youth'll always be using their pupils to look at prettiness
And minds will try to find ways to display wittiness
Our hearts will melt when you smile at us
We're pretty fucked up since we keep falling in love on the bus
Leaving shards of ourselves on every park bench seat
Hoping our phones will ring so we can delete
Loneliness from our speed dial and off our contacts
But we know that we shouldn't use others to combat
The problems of ourselves. We excel this too well
We can rule our kingdoms without the use of magic spells
Pillow top walls and shoebox towers:
Thrones made from Lazy-Boy recliners that could be ours


[Chorus] x2
What I'm really about is trying to stay down
Keep my heart matching like my feet to the ground
Hear that p-pound, p-pound, p-pound, p-pound
And my name remains golden until I get crowned

$$

[Verse 1]
Taking over the mic like I'm changing my name
But I keep it simple like some dudes keep it real tame
Remember the game, December these flames
I'm forever indebted to this inclement weather rain
Gave me something to mimic. Now I just kick it
Like snares to the beat or feet when you've outstayed your visit
Stay timid or chaotic. Drink these problems like tonic
Mind faster than Sonic and I'm a repeat dope offender: chronic
You on it? I'm off it. Because I'm awake while you are resting
I'm the next thing so start investing in this kid perfecting
Like West Wing: I take long walks and pull off monologues
Keep you real interested. When I speak my flow gets haters waterlogged
Don't be alarmed just feel the charm. Lanky boy attitude
with girls around my arm feeling comfortable like southern food
I keep it gentile and deal civilized
Negotiate with these guys while they can't look me in the eyes

[CHORUS]
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm about to rule the world
About to rule the world, about to rule the world
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm about to rule the world
Keep my fingers gripped and cuties toes curled

[Verse 2]
With no point intended but my list of ten did
Leave judges effected with my pretend methods
I fancy myself to be a rapper a lot
But in the end my map is all over the place like a scatter plot
Plotting something devilish as I start to pedal this
Drive metal to fire like I'm gonna be one of Hell's residents
But check again, the embezzlement of this settlement
Is getting even, believe it, never sweating in my Pendleton
I used to be Marshall Lee. But only partially
Rocking the flannels, long hair, and sarcastic "Pardon me!"s
But now it's odd to see, that this Vampire King
Has switched the flow from death to fresh inside the entire thing
And is it tiring that he likes to be Childish?
Ask Maurice, this beast on beats increases the wildness
Give me an Oscar for the orchestrated mind of a violin
While mistresses asking me "Can you sire this?"

[CHORUS]
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm working on this tireless
So tireless. So tireless
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm working on this tireless
Can't hold me back now. I am so wireless

[Verse 3]
Badass on Slimfast, rap game got picked last
But now I'm the captain and this is my gym class
Never had to lift weights but constantly had to wait
For these other dudes to catch up with me. You lames are pretty late
And I'm pretty great. Hence the namesake
But then again your ID tag is not the only thing it takes
I know it needs some brains. Maybe a little braun
I pinky promise that I've got what it takes. Listen to my songs
I could go on and on and on and on but
That will take too damn long
So I'll demonstrate to educate in a major way
Like scales rising on a park place every single day
Working hard until my hands resemble a miners
Been digging for diamonds since I was still a minor
The age has changed and so has the content
It's progress to top this so honest. I'm on it like faucets
You mock this? I scoff, bitch. You don't want this
Get bombarded by a kid who gets carded: I finish shit. I do not start it.

Break

[Verse 1]
Right now I'm lacking an index and the rule of thumb
Is that we can't pinky promise or engage: that's too dumb
So what's really left to write about is the middle
But I got it hand it to you, you're making it by the fistful
"They won't get it, Alex! It's way too complicated!"
Then I think it's time for them to get properly educated
Spitting dramatic irony at hypnotists whom die in sleep
This isn't censorship: just tooting my own beep beep
Is he faking this or is it that real confidence?
It's his own brand of being grand and some awkwardness
Punching at these keys like a boxer with his palms
Got verses like Psalms and I'm balling like the tops of Pawns
The King stays the King but I shattered the crown
So I'm fly like Mercury. I'm the Queen that gets down
I stay so clean that bishops want to pray to me at night
I'm inside my castle since your forward is my hindsight

[Verse 2]
Black sheep of the family. Wearing some wool trousers
Sleeker than chrome, this fox's fire you have to browse, sir
The honest to gosh truth, I say it all within these lines
Sometimes, the rhymes hide the divine behind pines
Because I can't extrapolate or sometimes enunciate
Can't let it marinate. That's why these puns will play
Since I can't afford subtlety I have to say luxury
Words sharper and shinier than diamond cutlery
This submarine rap goes deeper than an underling
This game remains down like it's whole life was humbling
Get ready to bumble if you try to swarm me
My name's not lee but I'll show you I can be deadly
Actually and factually my tact will be
Prim, proper, dapper, like some royalty faculty
Back for me? Then I will gladly give you my spine
Picketers from Mathematicians wave: that's a real sin

[Verse 3]
All out of luck? Guess I'm going to rely on my skill
I write what's right so I must fit the bill
Accruing dollars in a pile, I'm king of capital hill
Rocking with flutes and OGs: an actual trill
And still, you chickens think my quill isn't ready
Just chill your bickering and I'll spill like levies
This used to be clever just for the sake of sounding smart
But now I realize that when I put in a little heart
I'm running even faster while you're still at the start
Changing the tides and words so I'm not feeling apart
Flier than a finch. I'm at this like Atticus
Crawl in my skin if you want to feel talented
These beats I leave increased when I write upon it
Leave comments like comets and treat this like Sonnets
I'm on it and off it and on it once more
Sweeping girls off their feet like it's just a chore