Текст песни Dream Big - 7dashine

I just needed time to concentrate
It's different now cuz we talk but we never conversate
I left it all in the open for y'all to commentate
Sitting here as I contemplate switching gears
Got no time to waste, huh

And open minds got the finest taste
I took the bus and my school was like an hour away
So tell me that I ain't gifted when I was sitting
And scribbling lines to fit in,
And venting to pass the time away
So just tell me the time and place
A Florida boy tryna be a voice for the entire state
They tell me that my ambition is gonna kill me
I'd rather that than be driven by nine to fives I got bills to pay

I know it's hard out here, we pour our hearts out here
Put up our guards out here, can't even talk out here
Was feeling lost out here, but now the city's looking different
They pull cards out here

So I focus on keeping my nose clean
Grew up around dope fiends, by any and no means
This town couldn't hold me, try to plant my success
But the money don't grow on trees
What's locked up ain't no AC
And I know you see
That these dreams are bigger than me
And it's bigger than rap it seems
My heart attached to my sleeve and confidence in my jeans
So how could I keep the peace when my cousin's keeping the peace
And now he's blowing off steam like

Promise you'll think about me when I'm gone
Cuz everything I gave was for the cause
Now we roll the windows down exhausted
I lost it, yeah I lost it

And someone told me always dream big
And run from the city cuz it'll hurt you again
So I had to leave, I hope that you understand
Dream big
Dream big

It's that kind of writing you can't replicate
I stay awake jotting these verses to pressure make
For diamond records and then my section was never safe
But knew that I had a purpose to keep my head on straight

We need a guidance
While some were toting pistols just surviving
I was in my bedroom writing my own version of "ambitions as a rida'"
Tryna vent with all my idols
Got a friend tryna rap too
Down a few miles from my spot now
Downtown called it the dog pound
Cuz it was rough, parents ain't did enough
He wanted to be remembered for it's songs and not the drugs
Cuz when it's all said and done
We all die under the sun and your environment
Shapes you into the person you become
I never run is what he told me then
Someone broke into his home and stole the tree and ornaments
Everything gone so he quit the rap thing
And now he's back to selling dope again

Damn

Promise you'd think about me when I'm gone
Cuz everything I gave was for the cause
Now we roll the windows down exhausted
I lost it, yeah I lost it

And someone told me always dream big
And run from the city cuz it'll hurt you again
So I had to leave, I hope that you understand
Dream big
Dream big

I don't know, when I was young I used to play a lot with fire
And like, until one day I grabbed the flame and I got burnt
And you know, my mom got mad at me
And like, I don't know, 20 years later
I'm still playing with fire and I'm still getting burnt