Don't Lie

Requesting honesty and sincerity, emphasizing the importance of truthfulness.

Referring to a past experience of deceit or betrayal.

Describing collective suffering and the plea for acknowledgment.

Asserting the right to better treatment or conditions.

Committing to honesty, possibly in contrast to a previous lack of transparency.

Expressing determination and the relentless nature of a personal struggle or passion.

Using the metaphor of rising temperature to signify intensifying emotions or challenges.

Additional emphasis or agreement with the preceding lines.

Suggesting a sense of danger or threat, with predators symbolizing potential harm.

Describing a vivid dream involving anxiety, fear, and the struggle to cope with internal battles.

Left to lie in my coffin

Woke up shivering and sweating

That's anxiety knocking

Opened up the door to let them in

I'm pumped up with adrenaline

My heart keeps beating faster but

I'm trying to stop it

Put my head down for a second

Tried to breathe with my diaphragm one, two

Three breaths but I feel like I'm dying man

Tryna focus on my breathing

Lying staring at the ceiling feeling hot

I need an ambulance or even a fireman

'Cause I'm fighting with myself

My friends are trying hard to help

They'll say they'll ride for you but watch

Out if they're riding out for wealth

This maal I'm trying hard to sell

Like it's got no clientele

And I'm tryna share my pain with

You but I'm confiding in myself

I need a vacation, man I hate waiting

I'm on a wave but I feel nothing

Man that's plain sailing

This is anxiety and distress

But in the worst of it's form

I'd say I'd never see it coming

Reflecting on past experiences of adversity and the inevitability of facing challenges.

Repetition of the earlier plea for truthfulness, acknowledgment of suffering, and the persistence of challenges.

Don't lie we've been here once before

You hear us cry, us cry, us cry, us cry

'Cause you know we deserve more

And I won't lie, won't lie, won't lie

Won't lie this fire won't stop burning

Because the temperature is rising

And now the predators are hiding

Exploring personal growth, learning from mistakes, political awareness, and the pursuit of excellence in the face of adversity.

My belly's getting larger

I just bun a lot of herb

I never kick it with a lager

Taught to never break the rules because

I listened to my pastor

But I learned to make mistakes and

Then just worry 'bout it after

I'm political, but not political peak

Been on the street and now it's only

Right I spit on this beat

Give them that heat

Feel on-former than I've been in a week

I feel the game is just like Nuketown

And I've been on a streak

Ooh yes, I've got this down to a tee

And one, it's bound to be me

Go call the underdogs

There's no one here that's loud in the scene

Take off my melodies

My bars and still a thousand degrees

I've got the mask of Zorro but

Hardly catching Z's at late nights

The mandem catching Z's and let them

Go so they can take flights

I'm tryna do my best but what's my

Best now that the stake's high

I sing when under pressure

Stalls and stay aboard, i stay high

Reiteration of the themes of honesty, collective suffering, persistence, and the looming threat of external dangers.

Don't lie we've been here once before

You hear us cry, us cry, us cry, us cry

'Cause you know we deserve more

And I won't lie, won't lie, won't lie

Won't lie this fire won't stop burning

Because the temperature is rising

And now the predators are hiding