To All My Friends - Atmosphere

Yeah, I saw the sign in the window, for the job

Yeah I got a high school education, but that's all

Skills? You wanna know if I got some skills?

Yeah I got some skills

This goes out to all my friends

What you gonna be when you grown up?

I'm all grown up and still don't know what

I mop throw up, I rock a tow-truck

Long as it means that I can get old and post up

I used to be a typical winner

Living off the gratuity from delivering your dinner

Cause as a kid, I didn't consider

that I would get the opportunity to be a full-time spitter

I love this occupation

I got bosses across the nation

Validation is an understatement

and I don't really know how to take a vacation

My kind don't have any free time

I'm so distracted, but everything's fine

I speak shine and I read signs

Appreciate your opinion but this dream's mine

It's all love, we're cool

But you don't tell a cowboy what to do

I was the ugly kid that didn't listen

Little big man full of ambition

Based on imagination, just like you

Daydreaming, thinking bout the things I might do

I used to paint, draw and illustrate

Mom would facilitate and it would feel okay

Seems like yesterday still plays a part

When I grow up, I wanted a job making art

Picture that, how many years old?

Young enough to mix up love with career goals

But I was just this tall when they told me

that the world was mine, but the papers weren't signed

There's no deed, so proceed to go seed

up the whole piece like it owes me groceries

Don't breathe until you formally know me

Won't leave? Better call authorities

It's all love, we're cool

But you tell an astronaut what to do

The turntables stole my heart

Burnt the paintbrush, broke it apart

I miss it, I might revisit

But I wasn't that good, I admit it, maybe you can't tell

But as a kid, I wanted to be Melle Mel

And later as a teenager I wanted to be LL

Then I discovered weed and I wanted to be Del

But thank God eventually I found myself

It's funny when I bump into fools

I used to go to school with, and they ask what I'm doing

Half of the time I want to crack a lie

But fuck it, I'm still a wannabe rapper guy

Hahaha, yeah I guess that it seems that way

I get to see the world, and it's decent pay

As long as somebody want to see us play

I wake up every morning and I seize the day

It's all love, we're cool

But you don't tell the president what to do

It's like that y'all, it's like this y'all

I don't get to call in sick y'all