hook

life's got its ups and downs; and its own struggles;
you can take em laying down, or you can choose to hustle;
brick after brick, and stone after stone;
there's foundation set, you are never alone;


Start at the beginning, beginning with your heart;
heart the work you do, make sure you did your part;
Part the things I say, saying what they will,
will they ever learn? Learn how to heal;
Heal the wounds they cause, cause and effect;
effect the way they treat people, show some respect;
respect is a hard thing to earn, but when it finally does;
don't get caught up, all in the friendly buzz;
buzz them through the front door;
the front door don't work no more;
more on that later,
just fix it procrastinator;
no need for name calling, unless its calling for attention;
attention: I follow the drum of my own beat;
I mean the beat of my own drum;
I mean I follow it until this long day is done;
I mean, done this day, I follow then some;
then some, follow it right where I started from.




hook

life's got its ups and downs; and its own struggles;
you can take em laying down, or you can choose to hustle;
brick after brick, and stone after stone;
there's foundation set, you are never alone;





Build something lasting, lasting while it can;
can it make progress? Progress is the plan;
plan it out ahead, ahead of the curve;
curve around the bend, bend up rhymes with these words;
words is what they utter, utter is what they spoke;
speaking of words, all they say is a joke;
when it comes to speech, speech is what they lack;
they spit whack vocab, till they fall off track;
not rapping about rapping, but rhyming about building;
and the before mentioned, was just how I was feeling;
feeling all right, write on the spot;
spot me a beat, and I'll rock on the drop;
I'm stressing, progression, this session, I'm flexin',
and on close inspection, its skill that I'm testin;
in other words, what I'm sayin;
is I'm building on the foundation...