1. |
Defined Over Time
04:29
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(Hook)
Rome wasn’t built in a day
It was defined over time
Defined over time
Defined over time
(Ayyy)
Rome wasn’t built in a day (No!)
It was defined over time
I was defined over time
Ima be defined over time
(Ayyy)
Verse 1
Rome wasn’t built in a day (No!)
Took a little time, hence the name (What’s my name?)
Everything you see is what I made (That’s me!)
Been through so much change, still the same (Never switch!)
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Started from the ashes, rose through the flames (Through the flames!)
Scars on my frame, I ain’t ‘shamed (I ain’t ‘shamed!)
Learned so many lessons from the pain (the truth hurt)
And I ain’t going back where I came (NOT ME!)
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Back to when I was a carbon copy
Now I’m looking at ‘em looking sloppy (Ugh!)
Promise when I say this it ain’t cocky
But look me in my eye, live a lie, Nope, Not me (Not me!)
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Make it on my own or Ima go down swinging
Don’t you dare count me out unless Roseanne singing
On the mic, only ever trying to be like Mike
But hey, even Mike wasn’t Mike overnight, so …
Bridge
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Whoa
(Hook)
Rome wasn’t built in a day
It was defined over time
Defined over time
Defined over time
(Ayyy)
Rome wasn’t built in a day (No!)
It was defined over time
I was defined over time
Ima be defined over time
(Ayyy)
Verse 2
Let me keep it 10 thousand
I put in my 10 thousand
So I could be onstage for 10 thousand
And walk up to the booker like Give me $10 thousand!
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And this is just the start
I’m really going off, but you ain’t seen me go hard (Go hard!)
Walk soft, but you gonna see the big dog (Big dog!)
If you ever try to step in my yard (My yard!)
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You only live once as the clock tick (clock tick!)
God got me, so I got this! (Got this!)
But you ever try to rob me of my options (Options!)
Ima go kamikaze in the cockpit (Cockpit!)
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No, we are not the same, the shoe does not fit
Ima always go 100, trust the process
Yeah, I’m watching how you snakes is always watching
Man, yall gon’ make me go Dennis Rodman
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Only got one shot, will not let that blow
Keep rolling, do not stop, just process my goals
Do not lose myself in the process, the object is progress
Do not rest till I’m dressed in gold (Boy!!!)
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Can’t stop the king, I’m gon find my crown
Show me the lie, that’s how silence sound
Oh, you throwing shade ‘cause I’m shining now?
That’s why you CAN’T SEE ME, My time is now!
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Your time is up, Now you’re stuck!
And just trust, this wasn’t luck
Been defined over time, but my time is hardly over
Didn’t do this in a day, though my day is getting close, man …
Bridge
Bridge
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Whoa
(Hook)
Rome wasn’t built in a day
It was defined over time
Defined over time
Defined over time
(Ayyy)
Rome wasn’t built in a day (No!)
It was defined over time
I was defined over time
Ima be defined over time
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2. |
Not Me
04:27
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No (5x)
(Hook)
No, Not Me
I cannot be
Anybody but myself
You got me twisted with somebody else (2x)
I said ...
No, Not Me
Verse 1
Different
I keep my energy consistent
All I ask is that you make the same commitment
Stay in your lane, no switching
These the only shoes I’m trying to fit in
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I done wasted so much time
Trying to be some other guy
(But why?)
For no reason or rhyme
So naive, I wish I’d seen the signs, so …
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Off with the mask, off with their heads
Offer up my soul, nah, dawg I’d rather be dead
So with that said, I’m just trying to figure what’s next
The only I know for sure is it’s gon’ be on my terms
So I’m ...
Bridge
Doing me, this here is overdue
No more doing what they told me to
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
But I’m RXME, so Ima do what Ima do
(Hook)
No, Not Me
I cannot be
Anybody but myself
You got me twisted with somebody else (2x)
I said ...
No, Not Me
Verse 2
Fake world, full of fake people (Ugh)
Only time I’m fake is when I fake need ‘em (We don’t need ‘em!)
Third eye open, still can’t see ‘em (can’t see ‘em!)
I’m on another level that they ain’t reaching (Get on my level!)
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It took some time, but I found me (Found me!)
So I’m careful who around me (Around me!)
If you ain’t there when I’m drowning
Don’t be there when they crown me
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Everyone thinks they get it, But they don’t see how committed
That I am to getting lifted, Man, I swear it’s an addiction
It don’t matter that I’m trying to turn my nothing into plenty
Everybody donating their two pennies
BUT I’M …
Bridge
Doing me, this here is overdue
No more doing what they told me to
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
But I’m RXME, so Ima do what Ima do
(Hook)
No, Not Me
I cannot be
Anybody but myself
You got me twisted with somebody else (2x)
I said ...
No, Not Me
(They really tried it, dawg, but I ain’t the one …)
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3. |
Desperate
03:26
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(Hook)
I’m so desperate for attention
But I hate the lights
I can’t make sense of
Much in my life, I’m trying to get right
I’m lost for direction
But I know that the pressure
Is gon’ make me shine
Verse 1
I’m trying to make these moves from a place of strength
But desperation is the state I’m in
Grinding daily, still ain’t made a cent
And it’s the first of the month, it’s time to pay the rent
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Wake up, shoes on
Work hard, move on
Next day, same shit
I can’t take it
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My heart and my mind
Ready, set, they’re racing
Go hard, chase it
No more waiting
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This mile I’m running keep on getting longer
Put your foot into my shoes see why I wish I could be stronger
Give you all my blood, my sweat, my tears but give you not my honor
I am not the man I am today because I couldn’t conquer, but the problem is that ...
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I be feeling low
I be feeling like I don’t know
Maybe if I hustle now, later it’ll flow
I just gotta know, am I on the right road?
(Hook)
I’m so desperate for attention
But I hate the lights
I can’t make sense of
Much in my life, I’m trying to get right
I’m lost for direction
But I know that the pressure
Is gon’ make me shine
Verse 2
I’m desperate for more, but what am I chasing?
The money, the power, the adoration?
I want everything right now, it’s really testing my patience
I swear it’s gon’ be my death to reach my final destination
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I give myself this pressure just to prove that I won’t break
But is proving it worth losing all the ones who make me great?
I’m pushing them all away, the ones that I’m trying to carry
I have no one left to live for and honest, this shit is scary
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If I could step outside myself, I’ll tell you what I’d say
Everything you think you want is getting in the way
The money and the power don’t mean shit without no purpose
You think it solves your problems but that’s only on the surface
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You ain’t worried who you hurting, you just thinking of yourself
I ask you: Is it worth it if you got nobody left?
Choosing wealth over the health of your spirit cannot heal you
You only desperate ‘cause you’re chasing after a life that’s gonna kill you
(Hook)
I’m so desperate for attention
But I hate the lights
I can’t make sense of
Much in my life, I’m trying to get right
I’m lost for direction
But I know that the pressure
Is gon’ make me shine
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4. |
Walk Away
04:29
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(Hook)
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
‘Cause I’ve come too far
I’ve come too far
No
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
‘Cause I’m still so far
I’m still so far
Verse 1
Defined Over Time is a mind over matter thing
This ain’t no casual thing
This is life or death from Saturday to Saturday
I’m working while you out at play
I’m grinding til I pass away
I’m trying to get like Cassisus Clay
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‘Cause I’m one of my goals [is] to be one of the GOATS
So I’m running this road ‘til I’m running no more
Give a hundred percent, but I wanna do more
I don’t know what it is to be under control
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‘Cause I’m out my mind, I’m losing it
I’m outta time, I’m losing it
Gotta lock and load, put the Ruger tip
To anybody’s head allowing you to quit
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‘Cause we locked in and we WORKING
Even when they don’t see us working
‘Cause we don’t do it for credit, we know where we headed
The gold is won behind the curtain
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So no time to slow it down,
You gonna hold me up or hold it down?
I know where I’m going now
Wish I knew back then all I know now
Bridge
Leave all of the past all in the past
No looking back, you gotta get past
No looking back, No looking back
No looking back, No looking back
‘Cause ...
(Hook)
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
‘Cause I’ve come too far
I’ve come too far
No
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
‘Cause I’m still so far
I’m still so far
Verse 2
Wish I could talk to the young me
Wish I could tell him be hungry
Wish I could go back and do everything over
Prevent it from getting too ugly
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But time only moves one direction
The past is only good for reflection
You keep looking back through the looking glass
And all you looking at is regression
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And that’s how the devil would have it
But I ain’t going back to old habits
God won’t let me be average
GOD WON’T LET ME BE AVERAGE
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‘Cause I got too many big plans
Deal it and switch up the hands
We are not doing this dance
Can somebody come get their mans?
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I’m putting it simply: You with me, [then] you with me
My tolerance empty for plotting against me
The old me is dead, but the new me is deadly
Gon’ have to try harder [if] you trying to end me
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I ain’t turning back now
Wouldn’t even if I could
And Ima take my last breath
Before I ever leave for good
Bridge
Leave all of the past all in the past
No looking back, you gotta get past
No looking back, No looking back
No looking back, No looking back
‘Cause ...
(Hook)
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
‘Cause I’ve come too far
I’ve come too far
No
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
I can’t run away
‘Cause I’m still so far
I’m still so far
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KXNG RXME Washington, D.C.
KXNG RXME
(King Rome)
Producer/Recording Artist
Defined Over Time is the journey to your purpose
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