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I Apologize

from Legacy Materials by Sankofa

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Fixating on my failures as a father.

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You ever hear a beat that tugs at your soul?
Too far above to see the buzzards below
Too late to convince that friend he wasn’t alone
That path less traveled with the dust in the road
The sort of temper that just doesn’t explode
I wish I had that, or at least a muzzle to close
My mouth, sometimes I’m feeling flustered and blow
But the ones I love around me are the ones that it shows
I hope they understand I don’t intend to scare them all
Air too thick to cover up with aerosol
Sometimes, I lack the wherewithal to show restraint
We all have different mechanisms used to cope with pain
A house of cards, my opponent with the poker face
And now it’s ours, write devotions in the hopes it stays
I appreciate what I have and where I go
I guess I need to a better job of saying so

So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize for all the times
So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize
So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize for all the times
So this is me saying thank you
I love you


Sharing moments with with my sons growing so fast
And that’s the way it goes, I know that we can’t go back
I suppose that’s why I’m looking at their photographs
When I’m done writing songs, a mode of vocal maps
Maybe one day they’ll listen to the songs that I made
And recall all the times the beats would just play
I feel like a failure more often than not
Too busy in my world to stop and offer them props
As for whether it’s true, that’s not for me to call
It goes so fast, feeling like I need to stall
But that’s a mission, there impossible as time itself
Timelessness raging against this dying shell
Shel Silverstein, pondering a severed tree
Got me thinking of my dad my sons will never meet
I hope if they have kids I have a chance to meet them
But emotion stays fighting with my reason

So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize for all the times
So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize
So this is me saying thank you
And I apologize for all the times
So this is me saying thank you
I love you

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from Legacy Materials, released March 25, 2022

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