Roc Marciano - Year of the Dragon lyrics

Gods gift is the birth of child, been bearing witness ever since my addiction to the mercantile Souls suffer when the serpents wild Easier to wear the mask, than to hide behind a perfect smile When I entered the cold winter I couldn't start my dreams off the bench, that exposed splinters We rode renters, so I could talk slick on every other breath Be a good father, how I make amends for mothers d**h If I have to go gorilla, I can thump my chest Born in a dragon fire year, scorned and laughed at wit jeers Those the habits that I fear When I pen a draft, call me shaft iron spear, no secret when the Nim makes the rats hide in fear, its clear That where we from has been war torn and tattered And art imitation, the highest form of flatter Start liberation, break out of the norm patterns Or be on the losing end once the eye of the storm gathers A forecaster, prophesied, formed from dye casters Alchemist out of Kemet, broke stones with five masters That taught me how to read palms, psalms, and alms givin' The roots of my people is strong and long livin' Life, gets religion prolonged in wrong prisons, I can make or brake an atheist, snakes, they song hissin', listen This is precision piston, German engineered Thats deep and metaphorical, the oracle appeared geared Towards mo substance, Im writin' for Joe Public His family low-budget, one chicken makes fo' lunches Told my son, ive been around the sun 38 times Around the slums, seen d**, disintegrate minds All I can do is pray he takes time And make him walk a straight line, if I see shape in his spine Cure the scoliosis with focus, what my approach is I never get noticed as being one of the dopest With all due respect to the millennial mix Your boys bicentennial, I was born in 1976..