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Track 05 · Lyrics

Line For Line

From the album If I Wasn't Me by Scottychams

Intro

I'm just

Theorizing

Toking

Riding the highs

Stop and think why

Got me smoking all this dope

Writing hazed lines

Chorus

Talking 'bout that line for line

Line for line line for line line for line

line for line line

line for line

Line line line line line

Verse 1

I was stressing

Second guessing

Turning pressure into lessons

Had a vision on a mission

Had to sharpen my direction

But how

Do I find the new tune

When the old me still talks

And I'm trying to move through

I remember back when

I was lower than I showed you

Trying to be Goku

Powering through what I go through

They said it was a crack town

Still, I never backed down

Everybody talking

I just let 'em hear the track now

Down in the Shwa

I had to grow from the old me

Sketchy roads, cold blocks

Still, I kept my soul hot

I don't care

I'm in the zone

Built the vision on my own

Line for line

I found a way

To make the struggle feel like home

Ayy nice hit

Let the beat switch

I don't need to fake shit

I just need a reason

I've been writing through the seasons

Trying to fight my inner demons

If I said it, then I mean it

If I dream it, I believe it

Yeah

I'm just keeping on

Voice ready

Mind calm

Every line I write

Got a piece of me drawn

Had to stay strong

When the days felt long

Now they sing along

Like they knew it all along

Refrain

I'm just

Theorizing

Toking

Riding the highs

Stop and think why

Got me smoking all this dope

Writing hazed lines

Chorus

Talking 'bout that line for line

Line for line line for line line for line

line for line line

line for line

Line line line line line

Verse 2

Now they know I'm in the lab

Trying to turn a thought to craft

Used to laugh behind my back

Now they asking where I'm at

I was lost in bad habits

Trying to find some damn balance

Had to face my own patterns

Had to turn pain into practice

No more chasing every high

Just to cover what I hide

Had to look into my mind

Had to read between the lines

One line

Two lines

Then the whole page moves

Every wrong turn taken

Gave me something I could use

I was broke, so

Had to break out

Less is more

That's what I learned now

Rarely fully up

But you know I'm still down

For the people who believed

When I had doubt

Fifty-fifty odds

Line for line coin toss

Take a chance being the boss

I don't care what it costs

At my new place

Trying to build a new pace

Count the hours till I wake

Then I work through the new day

Damn

I want a clean slate

Less hate, more faith

Trying to cut the cake

Without losing my own taste

Baked like a vision

Cooked by ambition

Flying so high

But I'm grounded in the mission

Angels could be fables

Still, I stay faithful

Anxious and unstable

But I'm willing and able

To forget what we know

Let go

No enemies

Get growth

Gotta have

No pride

No ego

Gotta take my own advice though

Cause y'all know

Refrain

I'm just

Theorizing

Toking

Riding the highs

Stop and think why

Got me smoking all this dope

Writing hazed lines

Chorus

Talking 'bout that line for line

Line for line line for line line for line

line for line line

line for line

Line line line line line

Verse 3

Yeah you know

I'm back in

Line for line again

Old bars still hit

But I'm sharper with the pen

Reeling in

Feeling it

Filling in

For the whole crew

So true

Every verse got proof

Rapping like I'm four of ya

Pressure made euphoria

I don't need the glory

I just need to tell the story, yeah

Sorry if I bore ya

But I'm locked in

Every loose thought

Gets boxed in

Every bad night

Gets dropped in

Every raw truth

Gets chopped in

Gotta hear these bars

I be up so far

Blessed every day

Like I'm dealt a good card

But luck ain't enough

When the road gets rough

You gotta build from the dust

When the dream gets tough

Life is just an inning

Watch it come and go

Faster than you know

So I'm writing while it flows

Going all out

Let the game keep going

No fallout

I'm just focused on growing

Ain't hard to spit the truth

My life in these lines

What's hard is your mind

If it's closed all the time

Too stubborn to find

The value in the rhyme

I'm trying to bring a message

Be ahead of the times

Line for line

I turn thought into design

Every word got weight

Every bar got spine

Kept moving

Mind proving

I'm still improving

Every track I touch

Got the whole room moving

Line for line

Yeah, I built this from the ground

If you listen close enough

You can hear me coming now

Refrain

Theorizing

Toking

Riding the highs

Stop and think why

Got me smoking all this dope

Writing hazed lines

Final Chorus

Talking 'bout that line for line

Line for line line for line line for line

line for line line

line for line

Line line line line line

I'm just theorizing