Upstream (Against the Grain)

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The Encouragement Kid

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Man I always go against the grain
They think I'm in the wrong lane
But ya always swim upstream
When you're the only one around here with a dream

Been battling
Since bakugan battle brawlers
Been rattling
Cages for ages before this
The war is
Inside and with your neighbour
Man love now, not later
Gotta work together
To not hurt forever
Many bosses, parents, teachers think they're so clever
Acting like they can solve every problem on the planet we 
Live
But they'll never understand me 
Shit
But I make them think they do so I quietly move through
Feed them a little food for their ego
We know
It's too big they can't see though
They say where he go 
I'm rising with my amigos
Till we are way past being dead at school
Too far gone
And manufacture the pedestals
You're standing on
Close down all factories
Make you fall to your hands and knees
Getting kicked by all those you put down
All the propaganda you put up, we took down
I'm guessing from the rubble covered soot ground
Going against the grain isn't such a bad look now

Man I always go against the grain
They think I'm in the wrong lane
But ya always swim upstream
When you're the only one around here with a dream

Man, they're never gonna understand
When you're putting in work like that
And fight back
When they try to make you fit in
Sorry I'm not sitting
And sipping
Drinks with you tonight
I got to write
You sure you don't want to just do white
Man I don't take lines of coke
I make lines of hope
Inspired by dope
Scenery
Seated under a cedar tree
And it seems to me
The sun beams through me
When I just do me
Look up see 3 
Rocky giants
All loppy sided
They're probably excited
To hear my beats stop the silence
With boppy vibing
You can't stop me trying
I'm as strong as these walls
Of this natural
Cathedral
Made by earthquakes, not people
So strong, silent, but loud
Not even the U.S government could stop a mountain coming out the ground
Reminds me even the most powerful are truly weak
In the big scheme of things
Which means
You can't let any motherfucker be bigger than your dreams

Man I always go against the grain
They think I'm in the wrong lane
But ya always swim upstream
When you're the only one around here with a dream

Sitting up in that deans office
While he goes off his
Nut
Honestly shut the f*ck
Dude
I'ma keep being me just like you'll keep being you
So there's nothing you can say that will change what I do

To his face I'm all smile and wave 
But my mind is really a mile away
Cause I gotta attend to my dreams
Can't waste time sitting here just arguing
With a mad old man
Like man oh man
Why ya care if my pants gon' sag
Cause work I put in way more
I'm stuck in here for doing some motherfucking push ups on the floor
Cause I have the drive to improve 
Rather die than choose
To be anything like you
I try to
Be me with no other distraction
You're trying to turn me into part of the faction
Not a fraction
Of me will ever break
Never hesitate 
To levitate
Over sector gates
Designed
To confine
The mind
No matter how hard you try
You'll never get mine
Cause

Man I always go against the grain
They think I'm in the wrong lane
But ya always swim upstream
When you're the only one around here with a dream
Man I always go against the grain
They'll never understand my brain
Or my schemes
Cause they don't realise the power of a dream

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