Black Sheep Optimists - Black Sheep (feat. Jackie Venson)

I turn my pencil to an abattis
Stabbing the bars of the average
I was sick of shooting liquor
So I started taking shots of being sicker
Thinking different in narratives
Saying I had character
I could be the protagonist
I started writing chapters every night at every open mic
And every time I started rapping I left mouths open, right
Felt like every stage was a new page
Felt like I had a way just like Lupe
But every day was a fiasco
Actually it was kind of a disaster if you’re asking me Ashley
To be honest, I was stuck in a basket of empty promises
Opposite of the opulence, I was drained of my confidence
But then I had a revelation one August
When I bumped back into Daryl and he called me “The Optimist”
I said “I need a flock”
He said “There’s no stopping us”
Black Sheep on a mission envisioning Providence
When you fall in the abyss and you’re struggling to be
Just lean into the beat
And follow me!
Cuz you’re free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
When you fall in the abyss and you’re struggling to be
Just lean into the beat
And follow me!
Cuz you’re free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
If you’re a black sheep
Then be an optimist
If you’re a black sheep
Then be an optimist
Yo I been rapping my whole life since I was tiny and young
Was writing verses about the hurt before it even begun
Then I started getting older, started biting my tongue
Holding tight to what’s inside like a python on my lungs
I was dumb and confused, my song unsung
The truth was being influenced by who I was among
I needed to be moved - Newton’s rule number one
Cuz I'm looking more like you if I don’t do what I want
Said the reason I spawned is to be a savant
At being me, just as I please, disagree and begone
All these people beyond, keep bleaching their thoughts
Yo lets throw a little dirt in it and see what becomes
So I called my boy Maneikis, he said let’s take it and run
Let’s show em our true faces, we’ll be blazing like suns
We’ll flow against the grain, we ‘ain't afraid of the opposite
Black Sheep on a mission envisioning Providence
When you fall in the abyss and you’re struggling to be
Just lean into the beat
And follow me!
Cuz you’re free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
When you fall in the abyss and you’re struggling to be
Just lean into the beat
And follow me!
Cuz you’re free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
Free to be a black sheep
If you’re a black sheep
Then be an optimist
If you’re a black sheep
Then be an optimist

Written by:
Daryl Uberoi, Gregory Maneikis

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