A – Always
G – Give
E – Everything
D – Daily
E – Every
L – Last
D – Ditch
E – Effort to
R – Retain
Y – Youth
A – Always
G – Give
E – Everything
D – Daily
E – Every
L – Last
D – Ditch
E – Effort to
R – Retain
Y – Youth
Time means nothing
when You have no watch
Sight means nothing
when You fail to see
Power means nothing
when You have no support
Love means nothing
when You don’t have a heart
Desire means nothing
when passion alludes
Dates mean nothing
when You live care-free
A name means nothing
if it is not used
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
when the soul is being abused
A mirror can mean everything
If You like what You see
It’ll let You know something is off
If You don’t let it be
Cry yourself to sleep
Little girl
Love can’t find you
Hidden in so much unfurled
you want to keep
What could you benefit this world?
You are not your past
though you make it last
Trouble seems to awaken you
from the misery that keeps you blue
Where is the love
when your head can’t rise above
Go ahead
and cry it out
Why just pout it out
when you don’t know what love’s about?
Can you find your chin
when the winds of change begin?
Are you a chip off the old block
sitting, hearing, and watching the clock?
What’s it gonna take
to stop the heartbreak and tearful lake?
Have faith in yourself
before you put another on your shelf
Say what you need
and stop the reed-bleed
Are you staying in detention
of a rule of you who can’t even mention
your name at attention?
Swagger
Not just a sexiness
But a way that separates those
who try to imitate
No belt necessary
For her waist is commandingly
proportioned to her mind
Watch her as she speaks
Lips curved to deliver
a teleprompter’s speech
Hands that do accentuate life
She wears her garb
as garbage falls to the wayside
Flawless in every way
She is her own jewel
while they all would love to
rest on her skin
Flowing winds cannot contain her
Mountains and all molehills
crumble to make a way
Rivers plead for birds to
take a cool but passionate dip
to capture their lovely song
Though not a fallen star
the Heavens follow her
With a strategy that
matches her depth
All Hail when she
Enters
Even when not alone
Don’t need to cover
All the beauty that’s there
Wanna feel my own smile
Everywhere
What’s the use in being
Someone’s I’m not
I know I’m worth seeing
With everything I got
But if you ask me
I’ll tell you no lie
I’d rather be me
Than any fallen star from the sky
Some stars shine bright
Some lose their shine
Anytime day or night
Some are more just fine
But if you see one
In the corner of your eye
It’s just no fun, in the long run
with a fallen star from the sky
So, when I step out
I know who I am
Don’t need to beg for a shout out
When I’m my number one fan
And when my time has past
I won’t need to ask why
Cause I’ve got more love to give
And more memories to last
Than any fallen star from the sky
Oh so sexual
But metro-sexual
He can leap big bounds
Even on hallowed grounds
Change it
Then drop a dime
Haters think
It’s all sublime
(chorus)
He’s got the case of the itch
Looking finer than a bitch
Playtime
Right-on-time
Watch him flip the switch
In case you didn’t hear
He’s not like King Lear
He won’t give it all away
He needs something to sway
If there’s a daughter
In the water
He could have taken a drink
With so much ass
In his class
It’s got to make one think
Cause he can drop it
And pop it
And nobody can stop it
He can keep his hand in his hair
While his feet are in the air
(chorus)
But who can blame him
When they all want to shame him
As pretty as a photo
Don’t see him just as some-hoe
(chorus)
At bat
I am
As my eyes close
I feel where I am
Why I am there
What I need to do
And where I want to send
Myself
And I will send myself far
Further outside the stands
Than those standing
to catch me
hoping to be the lucky one
The Lucky one
And I feel where I am
And I grip myself well enough
And
When opposition hurls itself at me
I greet it
I meet it
And send it on its way
And as I soar
And as high as I soar
It is forgotten
Whether how foul
Or caught down below
At bat
I close my eyes
And I am a hit
Because I am at bat
And the stands are reaching
For me