Pride lyrics (Chorus) I’m alone again Just this vicious cycle and me Sitting in the dark Wishing these walls could speak And tell me things will get better Tell me anything at all How did I end up here How did I end up alone Verse 1 I wanna be the best, the best of all time/ I, wanna make you cry with my rhymes, as I blow your mind/ I want you to hate me, because you can’t escape me/ Realize that you can’t take me, cuz I am overtaking/ The game and it’s plain, I’m insane, I’m a beast/ On these beat so you see, that I have been unleashed/ And just I’m so angry at the earth like all of the time/ I spit a venomous verse, yeah I rip rhymes/ Wanna leave these emcees as empty as I am/ Wanna destroy the whole world, just because I can/ And you will never stop me, yeah that’s right I’m cocky/ I am original, the rest of y’all are copies/ My heart is frosty, my soul is ice cold/ I know I look young, but I’m a thousand years old/ When you’re this great you do not need friends/ So why should I care if I’m alone again? (Chorus) Verse 2 It is my intention, that when my name is mentioned/ In a negative sense, then kids will get detention/ Adults will get arrested, and populations tested/ To ensure that they love me for I will be respected/ You see I fear rejection, I cannot tolerate it/ And I will never rest in peace till I’m appreciated/ I swear I’ll tear down anybody who’s above me/ If I spare you, count yourself lucky/ I’ll only say this once, so make sure you listen/ Greatness is my mission, I’m burning up with ambition/ And I am so afraid that I’ll wake up in twenty years/ With an average job, average wife, and average kids/ Feeling trapped cuz I failed at rap, screw that/ Chip on my shoulder? Ha, it’s more like the whole bag/ I want to be remembered, I fear becoming nothing/ My heart is so ugly, how could God love me? (Chorus) Verse 3 I wrestle with myself literally every day/ Feels like I can’t win but I fight anyway/ I’m disposed to arrogance, try to stay humble/ But all this trash comes out, every time I stumble/ My heart is filled with rage, it’s time for me to quit/ And give it all to God, so He can handle it/ I’m tired of being tired, sick of being sick/ I swear that Imma explode, like tick, tick… If there’s any hope it ain’t with me/ My only hope is that Christ can love me eternally/ Because I’m so lost, but He paid the cost/ Wrote the check in blood, cashed it on the Cross/ And I’m just blown away, by this amazing grace/ He’s heard my hate filled heart, but loves me anyway? In the face of that, I think I finally know/ if I have Christ in my life, I'll never be alone/ (Chorus) x2

Verse 1 Wake up in the morning, I can see my hands shaking/ I can't find the aspirin, man my heads aching/ I feel nervous and I don't why/ I just woke up, but I want to cry/ To scream, to run, to leave this place/ To do anything else but face the day/ It's an anxiety attack, I know it well/ I've had enough that I can tell/ When it starts, and man has it started/ It feels like all my courage has suddenly departed/ Broken hearted, lyin on the floor/ Some days I don't wanna face life no more/ And nobody talks about this stuff in their songs/ They just ignore it and try to pretend like nothing's wrong/ But not me, one more day and I might crack/ Just another day ruined by anxiety attacks/ Chorus: Now I can’t breathe Take this curse away from me I think I need a magical remedy A little something more to help me sleep I have nothing left to hide Let this hell-storm pass me by There’s nothing else that I can say I wish this day would fade away Verse 2 There's a cramp in my mouth and my jaw feels tight/ The doctor says I'm grinding my teeth at night/ And if I don't stop there's gonna be damage/ Man it's, kinda crazy, I didn't plan it/ To be this way, I need to pray/ But honestly God seems far away/ I’ve battled with anxiety for most of my life/ And these have left scars that I see still at night/ As a kid I used to have break downs/ Every day, and I don’t know how/ I ever dealt with it, I can still remember/ Throwing up each morning in December/ I couldn’t cope with the crushing fears in my mind/ So every day before class, in my room I’d cry/ And each night I would always pray/ That maybe this time I could just fade away/ (Chorus) Verse 3 On the outside now I’m as calm as can be/ I’ve learned to keep my feelings only to me/ And that's a problem, I'm at rock bottom/ I'm Bruce Wayne and this world is Gotham/ But what’s awesome is that I found hope/ I finally realized at the end of my rope/ That the only two places where I feel at peace/ Is on the stage, and at Jesus' feet/ So even though sometimes God feels distant/ I remind myself that I'm still Christian/ It ain't about feeling, it's about faith/ And I can be brave till this fear fades away/ (x2) (Chorus)

Verse 1 Late nights take flight in my mind’s eye/ Never mind why, I just lie in bed, sigh/ And roll over, as I go over/ These memories, see full disclosure/ I get depressed, when it’s late (when it’s late)/ Cuz I’m so far away/ From where I want to be, and it’s hauntin me/ Honestly I’ll never be who I oughtta be/ But it only bothers me after midnight/ My mood falls harder than a plane in midflight/ The truth alters when you know that there ain’t no light/ Cuz you falter when you think about your own life/ Yeah, I can see my regret/ The night is a mirror, I use it to reflect/ And what do I see? Familiar faces looking back at me/ Old girls, old friends, old days/ These images roll over me like waves/ Time long past, people long gone/ It’s funny how in life we never really move onnnn/ So many memories/ I wonder how the world will remember me? A lost boy who was afraid of the dark/ Or fighter, who made it cuz he had heart/ He took the bad parts, and he made art/ He found beauty even in the worst scars/ And the North Star, was what he aimed for/ Cuz greatness, was what he came for/ And the last words, as I fall to sleep/ Just a whisper calling me in my dreams/ He took the bad parts, and he made art/ And he made art/

Verse 1 When I was born my parents lit a fire, and it burned inside my heart/ They told me I should never hide it, it was there to light up the dark/ But what they didn’t say was that sometimes the darkness hates the light/ I learned that lesson at a cost, and it would change my view on life/ As a boy, I was gentle, soft-spoken, and shy/ I just wanted to be liked, I wouldn’t even hurt a fly/ So I’d do what people asked me to, never stood up for myself/ Let others use and abuse my niceness, to amuse themselves/ I trusted peoples promises, never dreamed that they’d be lying/ And with every new deception I’d spend another night crying/ I learned that people will pretend to like you for a while/ But once you serve your purposes, they’ll ditch you with a smile/ Friendships are relative, and relatives can’t be trusted/ Cuz trusting anyone will only leave you more disgusted/ With each betrayal I felt I failed, my light was starting to dim/ If God had doomed me to this tale, why should I shine for Him? (Chorus) When the sun falls asleep/ Give me light, let me see/ Burst with fire, consume me/ Soon we'll see, these shadows weep/ Oh oh ohh/ Verse 2 Fast forward a couple of years, my light is all but gone/ Cynical and jaded, I blew it out to become strong/ Strong enough to fight back, to hurt the ones who hurt me/ If they dare to cross my path, I’ll never show them mercy/ I’ll destroy all those who come too close, they don’t care about me/ I don’t want or need your help, not even if I was drowning/ Tell me what choice I had, living with all these savages? I’ve taken so much damage that I’m tired of changing these bandages/ My heart is breaking – no it’s broken – it never served me right/ It’s only been a weakness to me, like that stupid light/ And this poison that I’m feeling, it is seeping through my soul/ To the point where now I’m screaming when I’m sleeping, I can’t hold/ It any longer, it’s getting stronger, when did I get so cynical? I get mad then I’m depressed and it repeats, it’s all so cyclical/ I’m hurting and I’m broken, but knowin that isn’t the key/ It all comes down to whether or not there’s still a spark in me/ (Chorus) Verse 3 (sound of a match being lit) (music significantly slows for these four lines) This fire in my heart, used to burn brighter than the sun/ But I put it out and now what’s done, can never be undone/ I’ll carry around these scars and burns as long as I will live/ But I carry something much greater now, the knowledge that God forgives/ (music begins to rise here) When I was at my lowest, bitter, poisonous, ugly/ God took me in his own, scarred hands, and told me that He loved me/ And the fire in His eyes, reignited my empty soul/ It’s not the way it used to be, it’s just a smoldering coal/ But it’s a start and it’s enough to see exactly where my path is/ So instead of carrying a torch, I’ll bring a box of matches/ And every time the darkness strikes, I’ll strike another match/ And shine my light into the dark, to force the shadows back/ With every act of kindness, a match is being lit/ And I plan to set the world ablaze, never shall I quit/ As Christ forgave my sins, I forgive the world at last/ For this little light of mine, proves that the dark has finally met its match.