Lyrics 2AM in Jamaica - Khaii

So this one is dedicated to Akeem Wray
Rest in paradise, man, I love you for life

I wrote this shit with so much tears in my eyes
Fuck all the bars and sicker lines that I ain't choose to write
There's bigger fish to fry
Got better things in mind, in these depressing times
And it's way bigger than me cause everyday somebody else has died
So much violence and crime as I'm sitting on porcelain tiles
I pray for discipline, consistency, I'm working overtime
My rhymes are not just rhymes
It's deeper than the lines
It's poetry of the mind
When I get this versatile
Thinking about what's reported
But what about the shit that ain't reported?
Imagine shit that didn't get recorded
That we don't know or even heard about
It's scary, there'll no proof, only word of mouth

Mi nah guh lie, di mount a tears mi used to cry
Just waa fi commit suicide, a mi regular every night
Mi nah guh lie, yeah
All mi know is that mi fight, couldn't tell yuh how mi survive
Wid all these thoughts inna mi mind
Mi nah guh lie, yeah
2AM inna Jamaica and di worst tings deh pah mi mind
Yeah
2AM inna Jamaica, cya rest cause mi sleep deprived

We don't really know the half of what be happening
What's covered up and what they choose to feed to us
Won't be no laughing like Hyenas, ain't no cackling
Cause there's a need for love but it depends on what it means to us
So how much does it mean to us?
Yeah
Sometimes I'm at my lowest
Like even now, I'm trying to refocus
Feels like walls are closing in and it's my final moment
Really needing Him, hoping He noticed
Cause I just can't help feeling so hopeless
The math ain't even mathing, this ain't calculus
Bro it's hard but I'm just trying, ain't no stopping this
But why is life so unfair?
Ain't nobody really care
Yet they be mad about what other people doing, that's weird
I need to find my audience
Cause this country holds me down more than gravity, it's obvious
I pray the tables turn on all of this
And I hope some bridges burn
That's why I'm glad that I know how to swim

Mi nah guh lie, di mount a tears mi used to cry
Just waa fi commit suicide, a mi regular every night
Mi nah guh lie, yeah
All mi know is that mi fight, couldn't tell yuh how mi survive
Wid all these thoughts inna mi mind
Mi nah guh lie, yeah
2AM inna Jamaica and di worst tings deh pon mi mind
Yeah
2AM inna Jamaica, cya rest cause mi sleep deprived

I'll pull up like it's some high socks, for anybody that I love
We live in fear so much you'd think that we got white cops
Nah, but this is Jamaica
Where instead of a heart, most people really got an ice box
Cause killers just do it like Nike tops
And robbers take what you work hard for, they need eyedrops for the red eye
Meanwhile I'm fly like red eye
Tryna hit this dream out the park and that's on Chicago White Sox
All this shit turning me off like a light switch
Really took a lot outta me just to write this
And they be like "don't you give up"
Easier said than done when this shit is a last resort
It's all I wanna do, but can't sell myself short
All I need are better days, like yesterday
Negativity sells, but what it really pays?
I make music that'll last, music that'll stay
I'm just trying to be great
Black people deserve so much more, not just on special days
My generation is so sad, all I can do is pray
Our parents barely know us, and they got toxic traits
Paying over and over for that trauma like it's layaway
Yeah