California

Intro:

This aint 88rising

Intro Refrain:

Yeah, I’m faded, fake faces

I erase ‘em, California

That fragrance, mad payments

Fake places, California

I don’t wanna be the one that’s left behind

I love the way you lie

Tryna get my money bag straight this time

The hills is gon’ decide

Pre-verse:

Yeah, I don’t know where I went wrong with you (eh, eh)

I be drivin’ ‘round the city overthinkin’ like I always do (yeah, yeah)

If the love isn’t real then I don’t know what is true (eh, eh, yeah)

Yeah, I don’t know where I went wrong with you

Melody verse:

I know the worst part about me is it’s never enough

When you told me that you like me, I been callin’ your bluff

Will you have my back while the rain has gone rough

While I’m in the town, will you show me some love?

Well yeah, all of us are trapped inside a nightmare

How could we ever break the drowning silence?

Now, don’t you ever leave me when I’m ‘bout to drown, sinkin’ to the ground

I hear blowing winds that know and speak your name

Never used my heart, nor my brain

Pull me close and hear my heart so you could understand what I’m tryna say

Post-verse:

Yeah, I don’t know where I went wrong with you (eh, eh)

I’ve been all around the city overthinkin’ like I always do (yeah, yeah)

If your love isn’t real then I don’t know what’s the truth (eh, eh, yeah)

Still, I don’t know where I went wrong with you

Refrain:

Yeah, you made it, you’ve been anxious

But you made it, California

Conversations ‘til the sunrise

When you stop by California

I don’t wanna be the one that’s left behind

I love the way you lie

I don’t wanna be the one to lose my mind

I know you know

Verse:

Somebody put some brakes on me

I’m tryna fill all this vacancy

Phone rings I feel so crazy

It’s my Pa and he just was asking me

If I’m okay

No.

I’m strugglin’ since day one and I feel the gun to my head will blow my brains any second now if I
won’t hit the books, huh?

Don’t know how everything else will unfold

Books aint no novel, they holding no story

Got so many projects that I got on hold

All that was due has already gone old

Finals are coming, bags under my eyes

Finished my three years, all I need is one

After all of the studyin’, I wanna be home

Post-verse:

Oh~ I’ve been in this fight, I could see it in my eyes, like

Oh~ So much in my mind, how could I waste so much time

Refrain:

Money makin’, while we’re breakin’

It’s amazin’, California

Celebrate it or berate it

It’s been fated, California

Oh Maria, the hills are swarmin’

With dead ends and the bots performin’

Don’t mistake it, you can break big

‘Til you get sick, hm

Verse:

Shut the fuck up don’t wake another neighbor

Tryna produce? Boy, you ain’t gettin’ major

Praying to God? He’s deaf and blind; He aint no saviour

You’ve swallowed textbooks, now it’s life you cannot savor

Are we-

Just some antihero in our own damn movie

Cupid shot his arrow now Miss Fortune abhors me

Broke ass life, I’m tired but I’m so choosy

Who won’t be choosy?

Post-verse:
And when the sky looks like a painting

That’s when you look down

Outro:

The sky

In California, California, California

And maybe I still wish I didn’t know ya

Real or fake, California, Imma hold ya

Outro:

California~

Fake faces, I erase ‘em

California~

You been anxious, but you made it

California

Intro: This is 88rising

Intro Refrain:

Yeah, I’m wasted, I’m breakin’

She gone faded, California

Infatuated? Or she hates me?

She won’t come back, California

I don’t wanna be the one that’s left behind

I love the way you lie

Why’d you have to stay if you’ll just waste my time?

Stabbed me from the inside.

Verse:

She’s was fated

Not made in heaven

Fleeting fate went

Life is breakin’

Flowers don’t bloom

They gon wither with the wind

I’m a mourning star

I have never been alive

But I’m dying inside

Never ever been wounded but I have myself a scar

It’s her face

Seein’ in my dreams

Now I can’t face

Reality is mean

Cuz I can’t even erase all the memories of us

Now I’m stuck inside my head

And I don’t know who to trust

But I’m okay

Let it bleed bad, said she gonna tend my wounds

She’s M.I.A.

But I’m okay

And it’s okay

Rain is filling up my lungs

And I’m drowning while she fades away

Can’t erase

How she reassured me that things will be okay someday

Just pray

Let it bleed bad, bad, she gon patch all of the wounds up anyway

But now the rain has filled my lungs

And I’m drowning all alone while she’s fadin’ away

Refrain:

Yeah, it paid it, time we wasted

Being anxious, California

Aspirations, imagination

It’s incarnate in California

I don’t wanna be the one that’s left behind

I love the way you lie

Thought I’d be the only one left behind

You proved me wrong

Verse:

Knowin’ no rest, or we wouldn’t progress

I’m tired

Gotta move, gotta grind hard or we’re left behind by the passin’ time

It’s just one more year

Leave the stress behind

Go slow
Aint no point in movin’ in a rush

Hun’ed couple of mistakes

Turn your projects into mush

Tryna hustle every time

‘Fast’s the only kind of lunch

If you miss a couple bites

Tear a page and cry as much

There’s no time

An illusion of the sloth

Past half-time

We are only movin’ north

It’s college life

Be a kid or an adult

It’s your life

But you’re never in control

Take my advice: we’re only wise if we’re half-drunk or out cold

We face life like a brave knight though we aint got no sword

Pre-chorus:

Ooh~ we got so much to

Lose~ but we got so much to gain

Refrain:

Gotta face it, can’t escape it

Gotta break it, California

Money made it, money breaks it

Money hates me, California

Oh, Niki, aint no hills left standin’

Dead ends turned to pavements swirlin’

Can’t escape this, it’s what’s fated

You’ll just cave in

Verse:

Thought it would be smooth but you ridin’ on rough

You have barely made it

Even on fire, you be running flash flash

Extinguished flames, eh

Stumble couple times, lost knees

But you be standin’ straight and

Lost hun’ed times but you makin’ up your way

You be pavin’ chasements (huh?)

Life aint no joke

One time you fine then the next you’re in smoke

Jeans caught on fire but you have to survive

Or you’ll be left behind and be broker than broke.

Smile cuz

It be alright if you keep your head up

You be seein’ the light

Blow

Out all the candles cuz you got the sight

You’ll get through the whole night

Life is just a hell of a ride and

You’ll be goin’ through bumps and slides, yeah

If you feel tired just park to the side and

See the sunset in the far horizon