the afterglow by PREZ

campaign life
chasing fragments of sleep on fractious nights
is it the cause or the fight that push me onward
duskbound, dawnward, always forward
i done marched before
etched a sketch with my breath in stainless ore
put pen to the page for countless scores
what's one more?

see, the path was unending
endlessly wending
in truth, it's a blessing
cause it gave me the space to grow
and hope for a future i don't yet know
won't see it with my casket closed
won't see it with my casket closed

i feel the tempo
steady building to a grand crescendo
uh-oh
mighta let a secret slip
run it back, can't take the risk
cold facts might slip a disk
when the record starts to skip

mere minutes from destiny
history weighs on me heavily
the press feels heavenly
cause i know that i matter now
that's why i try to rock these crowds
and duck these clowns
looking down from the highest clouds
cirrostratus

when i'm gone, they gon give me hero status
build a monument from my grey matter
imma live how i speak it
speak how i read it
i know i'm a genius
i just don't believe it

gotta reach
you gotta grow
otherwise the afterglow
is all you'll know

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• abstract hip-hop
• afrofuturism
• psych hop
• space rap
• Pennsylvania