[Intro]

[Verse 1: Seth Dyer]

*Empty bar*

What does it take

What does it take

What does it, what does it, what does it take

This ain't' no game, I had to sell all of my shit

Yeh I'm married to this bitch i got a ring, yeh I commit

Had a job when I was 15 bought all my studio gear

Saving all my pay cheques now I watch this shit all disappear

And I'm lookin' in the mirror like who the fuck is there

Not the same kid from Marshall, chillin' with niggas' on the stair

Used to go to parties on Eglington West, now we going to vegas

Link some strippers vegas strip, tell these niggas I'm the shit

And I'll say that once again like...

Nigga I'm the shit, you didn't know

Now we be ahead these niggas and we still young

And your whole entire album can't fuck with my track one

And I'm always hungry all my dogs be stayin' on the hunt

You think this shit is so hot, wait till we drop Actaeon

Lord god, ain't' nothin' realler than the hate

Cuz' these niggas' love to talk and these women's love is fake

I gon' tell these niggas' once better get us while we cheapest

Cuz when the boy is on, it's gon' cost you couple pay cheques

Everything you do drunk I do sober

Just so I can't excuse my actions when this shit is over

We on our grind and this is the best time to pay our dues

I won't take your two cents cuz' that shit would leave you destitute

I just wanna' tell the truth I ain't' tryna befriend these niggas'

In fat I don't wanna do anything with these niggas'

I'm taking risks but not playing board games with these niggas'

My bars just pull me up so I can't hang with these niggas'

Now welcome to the renaissance, it'a new age

New wave new fame and I'm looking like the king

And my team, they be looking like the Papal Guard

All these rap niggas' better pray to God

That I don't take your spot, don't take your spot

Cuz' I kill records and treat it as sport

Devour these bars I am never off course

I got so much drive I am never off course

On the stage rapping until I go hoarse

If you don't feel me you gon' feel me for sure

And if you feel me you gon' feel me some more

And if you don't feel me you're a bitch of course

Of course, I'm mercury

Closest to the heat

Don't be a shallow girl

Life is so deep

But you, don't, understand me

These women won't be happy

Cuz' they can't get with me

Bitch please, all you gon' get is this D

Take off your EV tee, jeez can't be

Part of the life that I lead, so we gon' fuck and we gon' leave

Oh Lord

They gon' judge me for what I spit

I said oh Lord

They don't pay my bills so they ain't' worth shit

It's a new age, new age

Buy a chain, buy a chain, we some slaves

Say my name, say my name, like it's your last days

Don't let it be in vein don't let it be in vein

Welcome to the renaissance it's a new age

Welcome to the renaissance it's a new age

Welcome to the renaissance it's a new age

New age

[Verse 2: Seth Dyer]

Huh, yeh, so this is the title track

I'm youngest amongst my peers but my mind thinking older than some artifacts

I am a straight insomniac, don't even be gettin' no sleep

Cuz' I gotta work everyday, like, someone wanna' take it from me

I just got signed as an actor, guess I'm dealing with all the drama

Now where I'm gettin' these dollas' to pay these contract quotas

I can't get it from my momma, she broke like some glassware

And my tax free money been diminishing since last year

I ain't' got a care no more, girl you ain't' there no more

Life ain't' fair no more, see these tears no more

We don't speak no more, can't breathe no more

This ain't' me no more, I ain't sure, I ain't sure

Who I be when I go out and give my soul to the world

I be dealing with all these girls and they want me all on their own

I be picking up on my phone, it say you be home alone

And that girl right before texted me two hours ago

Having too much choice now that just leads to no choice at all

Huh, yeh, so this is the title track

Fraid' to have you in my grasp, cuz' my life could change quicker than flash

I ain't' never been flawless, I'm broken hearted are you ok with that

But how you gon' ever see light, if there ain't' never no cracks

Now EV be the family, I just wanna' fill up our plates

Average be killin' shit out in the states, I won't ask for this shit no other way

And we here building legacies, I, just wanna' get my people paid

Cuz', Slimmz and I been on this shit, before instagram was thang'

I gotta' remember these days, cuz, they won't be the same again

I wanna' keep us connected like I be a data plan

All these rappers, in my city, buy likes I'm earning my fans

And if you was fake from the start, you gonna' be fake in the end

Surrounded by yes men, I know they never mean well

But well is a deep hole, and nothing comes out the pale

Yeh, forever let's be remembered

I wanna' get so high that if I fell I'd drop in heaven, yeh

[Spoken Word: Seth Dyer]

Sometimes I see the rain in slow motion

The way each drop traverses the sky doomed to crash land on the city's concrete

But in it's short life it remains

Unknowing

While dancing overhead it's presence is unavoidable

Limitless

Maybe it's the fact that I've been awake for twenty-two hours

Or that fact that I observe with my ears and not my eyes, as to why, I can see the time, between

Infinites

Every storm has a story, and I am a storm chaser

My life in the clouds has changed my human

Nature

A solitary raindrop who's purpose is not yet known

The rumbling of the sky the bass sets my tone

And then the flashes of lightning came crashing down I wanted to be like them

They obtained the fame, they were the memories the earth kept

That's what I would become and so I feel from the cloud only to realize...

I'm a raindrop, a raindrop who thought he could be lightning

Failure is the child of pride and if I knew not pride i would not meet his successor

He is the cold hard ground which breaks me to pieces

I can only pray that the sun returns me to the sky, so I can once again try, to become

That valiant flash

I was once a drop of rain

I was an individual amongst millions

Now I sit in this puddle with my peers and no one can tell us apart

Some of us will disappear beneath the city

Some of us will be taken back home...

To the clouds

Where we will once again wait, for the storm

Where we will once again strive...

To become lightning

Sometimes I see the rain, in slow motion