Lyrics Speak Up / Quiet for So Long - Gabe the Kid

Quiet down, speak up
Slow down, keep up
Sit back, stand up
Talk tough, that's enough
Quiet down, speak up
Slow down, keep up
Sit back, stand up
Talk tough, that's enough

Collab your opinion, collaborative destruction
Function's to help me but it's getting hard to function
Too many opinions, they're chiming in, they're rhyming in
I'm forgetting, my own voice, my own choice
Play your part, be at guard
The ones that don't care for you they'll try and steal your heart
Keep on praying, keep on reading
Hard times come don't stop believing
Give them hope, give them rope
Music's oxygen to cope
Make the money, make the sounds
Have a toast, this one's your round
You found the sound? You found your ground
You saving up? You keeping up
You talking loud, you keeping quiet
You sitting down, you speaking up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up

Quiet down, I'm talking
Can't run yet cause I'm walking
Talk louder, use force
Transition cause the floor's yours
Quiet down, I'm talking
Can't run yet, I'm walking
Talk louder, use force,
Transition cause the floor's yours yeah

Cause the floor's yours yeah
Yeah yeah

Was quiet for so long, I was turning insane
Stored up in my brain, had nowhere to let it out
Music blew me a kiss, I found a book and pen
It's truly mightier cause these words be shaking these men
Was quiet for so long, I was turning insane
Stored up in my brain, had nowhere to let it out
Music blew me a kiss, I found a book and pen
It's truly mightier cause these words be shaking these men

Dead in their tracks, dead in their Air Max
I find I lose more inside now like I pay tax
I'm turning back, turning negatives to positives
They find there's no bones to pick, now nothing's closeted
Wanna feed on other's gains, but no gains from me, you metcha
Match, can't chew me out, I'm not extra
Ordinary, on the contrary, man I'm blessed, ya
No expectations from God man, no pressure
No pressure
No pressure
I work hard, never the lesser
Give me 24 but I need 20 more
These long days are spoken about on my 44
Got ripped out my unnatural habitat
What I've been lost, I'll be given back
This isn't a tit for tat
My life needed Tic Tac, fresh start
Fresh breath into these lungs
Almost suffocated myself

Was quiet for so long, that I turned insane
Stored up in my brain, had nowhere to let it out
I remembered the kiss, I found a book and pen
It's truly mightier cause these words be shaking these men
Was quiet for so long, that I turned insane
Stored up in my brain, had nowhere to let it out
I remembered the kiss, I found a book and pen
It's truly mightier cause these words be shaking these men

I'm shaken, not stirred
My ink does not blur
My words are not mine man I happily concur
I happily conceded, my ego retreated
I say retreat cause my ego isn't defeated
I'll admit it, me being on stage gives me confidence
I could pave my own lane with accomplishments
Icons be fishing out some compliments
God's victory's the main and the success is a condiment
Lea Valley changing rooms rapping bout success
Changing rooms to studios to sit here and confess
There's a G in glory and without Him it is less
I'll remember how this started and I'll never forget
I'm adjusting that I'm not like the people around me
I'm burning hate from the people that surround me
I look up and look to you
Because in you I found me
Yeah man I found me
I found myself