Bigpapicarter - Fade Away Lyrics

      

Fade Away
by bigpapicarter

Chorus
If you cease to dream, your dreams will fade away
If you believe in dreams, your dreams will find a way

Verse 1
Yo, it’s crazy to have purpose and to feel like you lost
Ducking serpents and puttin’ work in, I ask what’s the cost
Between the times I missed out on, equipment I've bought
Eating pasta, no sauce, fumes out the exhaust

 Of my roommate’s car Camry — I've gotta find a new way
Get my own whip, start making money up off the loop play
The stockpile a bunker, yo, I’m preparing for Doomsday
Got the shit that make the mid of Decembеr feel like a June day

 Give a fuck what you say, I’m stackin’ my chips
And if you don’t know, I want bouquеts — my flowers n’ shit
And if you think you’ll change my view when it come to sampling jams
Dream on, motherfucker, I’m the one man band

 These dreams got me going crazy, dawg, I can’t sleep
I preach real shit you feel over every beat
I’m unique, this ain’t no carbon copy Greta Van Fleet
Ayo, it’s Carter from the east and I’m out west to compete

Chorus
If you cease to dream, your dreams will fade away
If you believe in dreams, your dreams will find a way

Verse 2
It seem like everybody's out there in this age to be a star
I’m just tryna get paid, celebrate, and then blaze cigars
Running crazed, replay the day down the rabbit hole far
’Cause nowadays your average rapper can barely count bars

 Y’all fake — what the fuck happened to taking this earnestly?
Lately I been on creativity over certainty
And I don’t give a fuck what they say about it, ain’t hurting me
This shit is like church to me, spittin’ personal purposefully

 I've got more bars than poem books in university’s
And perfectly deliver hyperboles
Externally keep calm, the robot, most of y’all never heard of me
Internally wired up, ready, it’s in my circuitry

 Will I be living free when I finally reach the grand stage?
Or be chained by the messages I convey
Yo, my pen a sword, a dagger slicing through the cliché
I’m on a run to make art timeless that never fade away

Chorus
If you cease to dream, your dreams will fade away
If you believe in dreams, your dreams will find a way

Verse 3
Yo, as much as I try to pin my problems on circumstance
More or less I knew the deal, spun the record, took the chance
And chance favors the man who work himself to a trance
And when I’m living motivated, I can meet that demand

 ’Cause I never stop or idle when comes to the breaks
But yo it’s more than just creating, it’s about showing face
The social media fake shit and chase to keep pace
Yo it’s a necessary step I got to learn to embrace

 ’Cause repetition is your reputation, I gotta face it
All these prolonged breaks, life's woes, I’m in a state of stasis
This ain’t no way to earn staple status in the rotation
I'm too in love to quit the shit, too caught up to chase it

 When I was young it was iPods and radio stations
Pure amazement, and music was a muse to me
All the classics in the mix and older shit was new to me
And still is — I'm just reminiscing on how it used to be

 ’Cause now I got some dues to meet, I’m far removed from sunny summer days of guitars to play
And jamming in my room to Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan
I tried to use my illusions, I guess it didn’t pay
Now I navigate reality tryna find my way, observe the vague terrain

 I’m sick and tired of waiting for the clouds to clear like rain delays
It’s easy to blame the day instead of reflect
So I’m tryna keep it honest with myself
And course correct when needed dawg

Chorus
If you cease to dream, your dreams will fade away
If you believe in dreams, your dreams will find a way