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Count the Ways (ft. Ryanne Noelle)

from Just Waking Up by Mike Dreams

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lyrics

(Verse 1)

I’m on another bus ride home
Still looking out the window sill
Still wondering how the wind gon feel
If I ever get a chance to blow
Just want a chance to know
What it’s like to reach dreams
Man, I have to go
So I spend nights awake
Insomniac forever
Pondering on ways to put it together
And whether
I should stick with it to get it or simply back down
And this my theme song playing in the background
I’m seeing peers pass by
With progression
I try to live through ‘em
But I’ve learned my lesson that
Everybody’s nobody
Till they make it
But I’m just feeling I don’t have patience, and y’all gotta

(Chorus)

Believe me
I’ve been out on my own too long
I’ve been gone
I can’t go home, cuz I know
You ain’t gon get it for nothing
You always gotta trade it for something
And there’s a million ways to get it tonight, tonight
So I’mma be…

(Rapped)

Counting the ways, count-counting the ways
Let me count all the ways, count-count the ways
Let me count the ways, count, count, the ways
Let me count the ways, let me count the ways…


(Verse 2)

It’s funny how they tell you go hard or go home
As if home’s just a place where you rest your dome
It’s where you feel safe, a space and a zone
With that said, I could never go home
And see, I could never comeback to the season I was on
Just give me some young money
I’ll be so far gone
Like why should I lie
Like I’m not that guy
Just telling you how I feel in-side
Gotta get it how you live
I say I got one chance
Two eyes
3 minds
With a VCR
You couldn’t rewind
2 lungs
And even CPR couldn’t refine
How much they’ve been polluted
Though I still plan to do this
Not saying that I would
I’m saying that I could
Friends and fam never thought I should
But I can’t wait
They say you can’t have cake and eat it too
In that case, just hand me a plate
And y’all gotta believe me…

(Chorus)


(Verse 3)

Y’all don’t see the demons that I struggle with daily
And the devil right there saying pay me
Cuz it you want it all like Warren G
Better buy a warranty
Just so I can shine
And this whole world can warrant me
But
It’s not like nobody warned me
I know the risks
But I’m fresh up out the quarantine
Which means I’m still sick
Trying to build a clientele
Hoping they’ll feel this
In this game of buy and sell
A new year
A couple more people know me
I still got a handful yelling out show me
Cuz I just haven’t proved yet
I got mustard seed faith
But a couple of mountains I haven’t moved yet
They wonder who’s next
I got my hand raised
Just tryna get a connect like Hughes Net
But it seems that my life’s on dial-up
But see that’s just about enough
To get my riled
To take stab at it
With my knife in the air
You let ‘em purchase
Hope the pricing is fair
They saying live in the now
And worry about it the afterlife
But tell me if it’s worth the sacrifice

(Chorus)

credits

from Just Waking Up, released October 14, 2010
M. Hannah, J. Timmerman
MUSIC2DREAM2 (ASCAP)
Produced by Wisdom
Recorded and Engineered by Wisdom
Mixed by Jimmy Easy

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Mike Dreams Minneapolis

Mike Dreams, born Michael Alexander Hannah, is an American Hip-Hop Artist & Songwriter, from Minneapolis, MN.
Since 2007, Dreams has released music independently. Mike Dreams was featured on the STARZ Network Hit Television series, “POWER”, executive produced by 50 Cent, NBA on TNT and MTV's "Siesta Key" and "Jersey Shore".
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