C.B. Mac - Water Over Wine

He wasn't made like the great types
No fame hype
A lame knight
Who had late-night stage fright
Aged sight but emotions kept holding
Molding his perception
Self inception
Kept him from true love
To break barriers
She'd come with open arms he'd make carriers
But what's scarier he couldn't fight back
Or wouldn't cuz he figured he was made like that
His mind was at war with his heart
Before he could start to see that he'd been torn apart
It's more than hard to repair
The darker the lair
The more the other martyrs would stare
So the years past
He stuck to himself
Kept his guard up with the past under his belt
Wondering in doubt if his vision would clear
But hope tends to choke when you're living in fear

You never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind
Cuz you never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind

When there's so many distractions
So many questions that need asking
But instead get thrown in the trash bin
Nothing's everlasting
Yesterday's big star is a present day has been
It rises and grows
Then tries to explode
Can't help but think I'll open up my eyes when I'm old
I've tried to console my soul
Slow my roll
But seem to lose control with the more I know
A prisoner confined to his own mind
So he molds signs
And places them inside of dope rhymes
Until he can break free safely
There's no take three
So here he is with his heart on his sleeve
The bars that he reads
Seems to make it harder to breathe
Concentration partly depletes
He starving to be free completely
But now he's starting to see that

You never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind
Cuz you never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind

Who matters to mind
Too busy trying to gather up dimes
To survive in this battle for time
Practically trying to cheat death
But living miserable
Illusions cloud our visuals and metamorph our principles
I'm a victim but not afraid to say truth
And wouldn't stop even if I was paid to
I'll break through one way or another
So my subsequent won't have to stay under covers
And try to figure out what to do for the zeroes
This melee lays waste to the true superheroes
So I cast a tune to outlast the gloom
That's been around since the legend of masamune
Mass consumerism decides happiness
Aim to be an asterisk or high of coc' and acid trips
Blasphemous what they sell is not
Gonna to keep me in this melting pot
Cuz you know that

You never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind
Cuz you never really know who you are
Until you get pushed so far
You have no choice but to choose
Water over wine
Waste or spend time
Mind over matter but who matters to mind

Written by:
Christopher Mc Intyre

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