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Chess Not Checkers
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I'm always about staying one step ahead
Maybe two or more can't score from the bench
Entrenched with certain beliefs
Can't peak if you stay elevated
You too busy on that retrograde, played out
Watching all my pieces equally, right in front of me
Strategically eyeing the board, move never get moved on
Speak from a position of power like Owen
First to get picked and last to leave the ice, price gets paid
Manage my business like a owner, you buying those dreams
Based off another man's cream, sickle digging your own grave
Engraved with the pursuit of independence, land locked on an island
Still trying to move a stationary narrative, buried in the sand
Losing your grip, well Cav and The Kid stay lit
Last ones standing, hose you down
Can't recover (word to mother)
Angles calculated prematurely, surely
We see the win before you do
Vision like Thurman Thomas
High up on the perch who's stopping us
Check mate, game set
Double down cause you's a clown
Angles calculated prematurely, surely
We see the win before you do
Vision like Thurman Thomas
High up on the perch who's stopping us
Check mate, game set
Double down cause you's a clown
Never needed a road map, was left to fetch on my own two
I knew the destiny was meant for me, accomplish and set aside
Move on to the next square, getting closer to your Queen
Snatched mine up, home team
I mean what I say and do what I must
So trust the direction is never in question
A knight with the strength of a bishop
Rookie move, we smoothen grooves, make the road to conquering more plausible
Phenomenal when we put forth this musical story board, on some Visio
Venn Diagram too complex then exit stage left
The game is cerebral, deep tissue geometry,
You lack the math skills, obviously
This is more then just adding and subtracting, deducing and protracting
Glacial and spatial, so in the end it's what we've taken from you
And not what you've taken from us
And to be truthfully honestly, it really ain't that much
Angles calculated prematurely, surely
We see the win before you do
Vision like Thurman Thomas
High up on the perch who's stopping us
Check mate, game set
Double down cause you's a clown
Angles calculated prematurely, surely
We see the win before you do
Vision like Thurman Thomas
High up on the perch who's stopping us
Check mate, game set
Double down cause you's a clown
Yeah y'all
Double down
We takin' that
Y'all playin with house money
We own ours
It's Cav Calloway
Don Draper
Yeah
Y'all know what it is
Peace y'all
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