[Chorus]

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The rhythms of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits, never stop so place them

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The music of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Said that it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits so you’ll never stop

[Verse 1]

This reminds me of old times,
the mind is a terrible thing

I never thought that I’d rise to be a lyrical king
But yo to everyone’s surprise I’m alive and kicking

Got a voyeuristic mind, I gotta watch what I’m thinking
My reflections are eternal, Kweli told me once in a song
It might as well have been a gift from the gods

There’s certain lessons that I’ve taken to the grave
Yo enough of it all, give me the ball,
let me take it to the paint

I don’t feel any pain, I won’t suffer defeat

The word is on the street that you worry bout Nieve

The world is at his feet,
that one two that you had to run through

Put you in a coma, you can’t come to

Look at what you done to me

Turned me from an everyday beauty
to a modern day beast.
Yo they call it a disease,
I say it’s from the earth
so I breathe, let me be
yo, you know what it be

[Chorus]

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The rhythms of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits, never stop so place them

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The music of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Said that it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits so you’ll never stop

[Verse 2]

I’m living quicker than the grace note

Race through the wrinkles in time

My blurry vision keeps me blind from a beautiful mind
I can’t capture any words along my way throughout these chapters

I'm trapped behind the back page,
cascades of past ways
and young thoughts,
we used to have those big smiles

We were still so many miles from a broken heart

But nowadays we never think about the change

we only know who we’ve became
really ain’t the same.
I remember all those red brick buildings on the corner
Used to stop the traffic when we held the microphone up
, although it was a phony,
our cuffed hands and a tight fist

Made believed that a microphone exist

We would spit until the daylight dropped

Philosophize about our day,
contemplated on the way to the park
The wait of the dark is easy, homie, sit and relax

Finding light though is really the task, puff and pass.

[Chorus]

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The rhythms of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits, never stop so place them

Yo it’s a chronic intoxication

The music of the mind got your heartbeat racing

Said that it’s a chronic intoxication

Free yourself of limits so you’ll never stop

[Verse 3]

Yo I need a little bit more,
won’t get rid of it all

I need some so I can fly,
be so high I can soar

I do it while I record
To make magic out of nothing at all

There's eight matches until one of them fall
I shake the ashes from a cigarette off

And what’s inside it ain’t a secret
Come and take a look
you'll get excited when you see it
Yo I write it like a mean it cause I live what I say

One hit will get you lifted away,
let’s take a different way

From what the others in the world might choose

If we follow all their moves, then we all might lose
I’ll explore a different path in my all white shoes

And leave tracks for some alright grooves

I put myself out on all my tunes

and you can feel me if you listen

Flipping up my style, like Im changing my position
I'll continue on my mission till the list complete

Burn the bitterness of life through my Swisher Sweet.