[Intro: Jahiara]I don't know whether it was the Ritalinor he was just spaced out butHe just sat there writing words and, didn't make any senseMaybe {*edit*} got too rough with him butTimes were different and look how he turned outHe turned out okay, yeah it was okay[Chino XL]Yeah, my slow mind races on auto-pilotReachin my arm's limitation, born a baby giantWishin my mom used birth control so I scream in silenceIt's bittersweet, enough time to be wickedly good, as a dull diamondMy voodoo science is terribly please live in death, tragic comediesUncrowned king of wordless books and forgotten memoriesIt's a victimless crime, I want a virgin birthAn uncommonly normal unwelcome greeting I receive for this Earth (yeah)It's a religious war, my music's a complete successIt's the audience that's a failure, am I wastin my breath? (nah)A wise fool possess drowning in the dry pool of blissYou thank God you're an athiest, my writing shits on MacbethSchool interferes with educationOnly thing I don't procrastinate with is procrastinationOxymoron, you got Van Gogh's ear for music, true fictionI'm thinkin out loud - usin dumb wisdom, silent art child[Chorus: Chino XL]I've been overlooked, and I've been shitted onStep-father broke my jaw, my momma kicked me outLived in the graveyard, was almost down and outHad women break my heart, was cursed before I startBut still I had my art, I cried in the darkAnd my control of words, is all that I gotSo I am satisfied, since it's a gift from GodI'm gonna share with y'all, the silent art child (silent art child)[Interlude: Jahiara]It's easy to just sit there and judge meBut you weren't there, I'm his motherI was in the projects taking care of his so-called creative assTo just say that I sat there and did nothing is really heavy[Chino XL]They say that no one loves a genius childAs quoted by Langston Hughes invited exileI'm not okay, I'm a beautiful beast imprisoned while with a frowned smileBlood healed, awaken dreams, crucified spittin violent vowsLying vows, standing bows, optimistic pessimismBlind justice, eyes without sight, claimin to have visionI'm like an angry corpse that is dancin in his own graveA fully mixed Mulatto son of master half of freed slavesRight my wrongs, silent songs, takin paralyzed stepsI started out with nothin and I still have most of it leftYou gave me nothin to live up to, how could I disappoint?I stood in the way of you bein dead, my strongest weakest point (yeah!)Abused cause I didn't do what you told me to dowhen you didn't know what you were doin, all high and confused (nah)My silent art child, smart heart scarredkeeps me lovin you knowin you gonna hurt me, you've done it before[Chorus][Interlude: Jahiara]Y'all don't deal with thatI mean in the end what does it matter?I refuse to allow anyone to make me feel any way about my lifeIt's my son, my life[Chino XL]Yeah, an honorable villain and damn saintThat's brutally comforted in my sick health, and baptized in hate (yeah)I tried not to think, I quietly just wrote my rhymesAbuse casted a shadow that has lasted a lifetime (for real)Questionable answers that's for my humble arroganceExposed to virtuous lies, taught with ugly attractivenessClassy ratchetness, parents unconscious competenceBusy relaxin, I'm an on-purpose accident with no past defenseFeared like poor millionaires livin in Hell's paradiseWe're alone together in this organized mess I writeSky raining mute, idle chatter, bad angels soundRival containing vital viral matter, clouds on the ground (okay)Tryin to get a handle on my own moods (it's crazy)Tryin to prove I'm more than dirt on God's shoes (somebody save me)I swear these syllables I cues that I chooseare too many mirrors of misery and riddle me physically (yeah!)Challenged artistically, definite even contradictoryPlaced words next to each other that'll confuse but clearlyAs a kid writing rhymes with severely broken fingersdeveloped ability to write with either hand, Satan won't stop my English (nah!)Remember kneelin prayin, askin God why35 sleepin pills and I didn't dieSilent art child, lost like one tear in the oceanThere isn't a locked door that my writing can't open[Chorus][Outro: Jahiara]And we all have scarsI could pull mine out tooBut if it didn't happen that wayYou guys wouldn't even know who he is
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