DeMenTia

(Dementia) essentially the things that make us higher thinkin' beings

Our memory, our way of calculatin', of plannin', language, they are degeneratin'

Dementia is anything which is affectin' the brain, and the loss of function of the brain

In such a way that the things that we normally take for granted for example

Our ability to remember things, times, dates, events

To place ourselves in a location, to use words, to use language

All of these things begin to disappear

Mama didn't plan me, that felt really weird, then she birthed a nigga, daddy disappeared

Universe was wit' us, glad I'm livin' here, through the dirt we live, Lord had to interfere

Doin' work he movin' bourbon to pursue a cooler dirt to sit in that is really clear

You revert then leave 'em back to this career, didn't recognize her, had it been a year

Mama sacrificed to have a livin' here, went through many troubles as a kid she feared

Nightmares on the daily, that's my mental, yeah, speakin' on me dyin' as an infant tears

Runnin' down her face while judges count the days, I'm shackled in the courtroom askin' 'em to hear

My plea to tell 'em that I'm sane, but they don't feel the same because of how I act, the end is near

Bangin', slangin' plus we strap the pistol here, do a bunch of drugs, had my memory cleared

If these straps I'll black out mad and then appear, been a King but never had a Gwynevere

I forgot it all, blast it with the fear, had a baby made the facts so crystal clear

Master what I'm speakin' grab an engineer, give it to the world but as I give it here

Know my brain is sick, ain't had a freakin' cure, medication had me actin' insecure

Made a rap and fuckin' had to get some gear, lookin' in the mirror, that's my biggest fear

Dancin' with the devil, ask, and he'll appear, spell out, "He'll appear", that shit really weird

Scared to lose myself, God askin' if you'll steer

Hell and Heaven point like that's each hemisphere, and as my memory clears

I don't wanna lose part of me (dementia made me lose it)

Will I cover that broken piece (man this is so confusin')

Stay bold, embody me, hurt the feelings (got so inflicted in the music)

(Ooh) but this is more than music

Searchin' for a purpose, it can get really hard, if you make it that way and then forget who you are

To find our self we take trips from afar, I went through dark matters just to live with the stars

My stomach is a compass, I encompass what it means, I wanna see my destiny fulfill, the window's ajar

I'm a caterpillar in it then I went for a walk, penned my situation and flew like Kendrick Lamar

Damn, ask yourself, is this who you are? Situational relationship, your friends or your job?

A diagnosis givin' your addiction a cause, go places evil waitin' see your kids have revolved

Don't wanna fear who you are, your religion is fraud, and you live what you are

So you sit in the dark with a bunch of sickenin' thoughts

And when they give up it all, but would you lose everything, homie, then you evolve

Am I a criminal? No, but the prison it caused though my memory's lost

I remember the wall, while fulfillin' the dream, I forget that I fall

But I'm still on a seam where the shit had to start

Y'all did this to me, then I did it to y'all

Right ear's what it's in, you know how it is but you wrong

'Cause I revisit the screams, blood spilled down the wall

Now I'm numb to those things, I can't feel anymore

Are you hearin' me Lord? I'm not here anymore, then what I wanna be, but I feel you ignore

Brain in a white cube more than ceilin' and floor, boxed in but that's what the fifth dimension is for

I know it's way more than a physical form, listen my realm can never coexist with the norm

I swear I met the old me in the continuum path

I said don't forget me, dementia ain't long, this how it feels to be lost

I don't wanna lose part of me (dementia made me lose it)

Will I cover that broken piece (man this is so confusin')

Stay bold, embody me, hurt the feelings (got so inflicted in the music)

(Ooh) but this is more than music

Somebody with dementia any particular Alzheimer's disease

These pathways will be severally interrupted

And what's happenin' is where there'll be a normal healthy pathway

To store or retrieve inflation elements of this pathway are lost

And the cells are not workin' as well as they should

So therefore when we try and store information, the ability to store it may be lost

And therefore when we kept, also, when we come to retrieve that information

We may not be able to store it properly, or we that just maybe able to access that information