Malcom Mufunde & YaadUniverse - Semester Hours

I put in my semester hours
I'm still learning about life
Like a lamb to the slaughter
I've been playing with knives
Naive mentality unmindful of my own mortality
I'm here by good fortune and a bit of whimsicality
As luck would have it
I'm 26 and still standing
Few and far between are the records of those who made it
From Chitown, chances are that God took them
On the spur of the moment while I was not looking
Only time will tell if I'll ever get the hang of life
I say I got the drift but frankly that's a lie
Dad got the boot so Mama the breadwinner
My little brother came and that just made the bread thinner
But we still getting by, sometimes I help a little when I can
Life got me by the balls
That only proves that I'm a man
Chasing rainbows
God knows I'm colorblind
But beauty just speaks for itself in my eyes
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch
I had to learn the hard way
Dad said my way or the highway
Raised on Bible-worship
I'm the upshot of blind faith
Walked through the valley of death no life belt
My mama said to err is human
I done failed
Stuck between a work in progress and work of art
My father put some hair on my chest
I'm working hard
To put food on the table he put me on a pedestal
Told me everything I'mma do is gon be a spectacle
I'm trynna live the dream but my life's been a nightmare
I gotta keep straight but it keeps going sideways
Life rode roughshod over me
I never got no kind of commas from this commerce degree
So at times
I find comfort in the margins of these pages
The critics say the flow's a bit rough around the edges
But I've come a long way from audio cassettes
To have people come a long way in support of my set
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch
I'm fighting both depressions- economic and mental
And all I have for therapy is ink and instrumentals
On the piss trynna stay pie-eyed for good
Aiming sky-high sling my hook outta the hood
Sick of raking over old coals need to pedal forward
And stay outta the hole until the day my casket lowered
I've been hanging by a thread for a month of Sundays
Mom says we gon get out of this rut someday
Still searching for a new lease of life
God knows I been aching man
I'm getting sick of life
Need to resaddle my horse and ride outta here
I'm trynna resettle
God took the light outta here
Evolution says to crawl until I learn the ropes
But ain't no learning curve when at the end of your rope
You get up and walk over the bed of embers
I'mma cool my heels off at the end of the semester
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch
It is what it is y'all
You can't worry about the things you can't control
Sharks will never know camels exist
Until you fuck around
You'll never know that karma's a bitch

Written by:
Malcom Mufunde

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