—I can’t believe
Some people be thinking I’m naïve
They don’t know that the world you perceive
Is the same world that you can achieve

I choose to see the good in you, choose to see the good in me
I been thinking that it true—that this life is poetry
I was reading on the news: Happiness is what we choose
I been thinking about you, wonder what it is you do
When you get knocked down do you get back up?
Or do you just stay down, say it’s just my luck
I don’t know if, you would ever go with
a fella like I (a fella like I)
But—I would spend some time on you,
I know I’m not your type, you said that that was true
Got no flat abs don’t pick up tabs you said that that was cool
You like my tats when we sat, sat by natural waters pool
Ain’t nobody gonna live your life but you
—That’s my advice
You could take it or leave it, this ain’t no Trick Dice
So long as I got the present, I choose to act nice
And I’mma act right since I was raised right
Thanks to my momma man it been that way my whole life
I can’t believe that our lives have been scripted
I’m realistic, optimistic, aphoristic, simplistic
I know I come from a limited place
You should want what you have not the other way
May be young may be dumb but I choose to say
I think today is my favorite day

If it ain’t you, it ain’t you; If that ain’t true, I ain’t, too
If I cain’t do, that can-do; I’ll come back, be brand new
Put everyone below you; I like when I’m below you
I like when you below me; I like when you blow me
Love when we get no sleep; I swear this hill is so steep
It’s autumn out but no leaves; I hope I don’t get cold feet
Maybe I’m just naïve; this life is what we conceive
& that’s what I believe & that is what I believe
Like hey—how you gon’ see the world with rose-colored glasses
I thought you lost your job, man they took away your classes
Cali is on fire and it steady raining ashes
Protests in the streets and we living on an axis
With Presidential tweets & there ain’t no sign of peace
We living with disease ain’t nothing is for free
I’m yelling out qui vive & they call the boy naïve
but the world that I perceive is the one I can achieve

A couple long nights a couple spent sleeping in
I like it best when you how my morning begins
Don’t believe me go ask my deepest of friend
I choose to live my life like a storybook end