2019 Guy

This song is on the Grouch’s 2008 album, Show You the World. It is about his personal history and intentions to create wholesome, meaningful hip hop.… Read More [Verse 1]

Well you can make any day the greatest day

Just visualize peace when you play this

I'm not saying my whole life's a meditative state

But I was calm, cool, collect when I laid this

Call me the Grouch, but I don't get upset

Kick a verse through the speaker, get my gouda, then jet

Back to my fam, I live the life of a man

Two cars, two dogs, a wife, and a plan

I told you I was making sense

All else will make you crazy like following trends

But keeping up with the neighbors won't save ya

I'm deep enough to know myself; now that's major

And I'm proud of me

No male figure to teach me how to be

Oh well

Too eager to reach outerly, I should have known

If all was good at home, I wouldn't have grown

I put it in poem to show 'em a better way

Something abstract and clever, not led astray

Break bread, make good, awaken

We takin' this hip hop back to self-creation

Meaning I can say whatever I want

And I don't gotta act a certain way to make a chunk

Ain't a punk just because it's not the same as before

Temptation lures, but my aim is pure

[Hook]

It used to be stress; now it is breath

It used to be broke; now it's invest

It used to be faded, and now it's controlled

It used to be underground; now it's known

It used to be young, and now it's classic

It's still good music, and it still is magic

I still am feelin' true to myself

My family, my friends, my everyone else

[Verse 2]

And now I'm smarter; I put a filter on my water

And I bless my home cause I'm raising a daughter

Can't be a porn addict no more; that's smaller

Than who I'm supposed to be; hoes, please don't holler (Hey, Grouch!)

I can hear the call of the wild

Another man down, swallowed by the mob of the crowd

But I hold my ground, speak loud

Tell them simple is the new cool, young fool

Sober is the new drunk, pregnant's new skinny

How long you gonna fuck the world and ride on enemies

Supplied amenities, I use them

I don't rely on crutches though, plus it's oozin'

Out the pores of my skin, pure truth

And when combined with the beat, you feel the music

Literally healing movement

Watch the expressions change from blank to student

And all the people say don't stop doin' it

So I won't be one to badly influence them again

Just fill my soul as ink from the pen

I think, fill a hole for every now and then

[Hook]

It used to be stress; now it is breath

It used to be broke; now it's invest

It used to be faded, and now it's controlled

It used to be underground; now it's known

It used to be young, and now it's classic

It's still good music, and it still is magic

I still am feelin' true to myself

My family, my friends, my everyone else