{"id":281855,"created_at":"2022-12-03 16:25:40","updated_at":"2025-07-03 20:04:12","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2022-12-03 16:25:40","original_id":null,"artist_id":137764,"title":"7. Doors Close (Extended Outro)","slug":"7-doors-close-extended-outro","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"Doors Open (Intro)\r\n\r\nVerse:\r\nDoors open, doors close,\r\nTip-toe the totem pole,\r\nThat's just how the story goes,\r\nThat's just how the river flows,\r\nI've been fighting tears alone,\r\nTo the Lord my soul will go,\r\nLong story short, I froze,\r\nI was hoping for some hope,\r\nI was knocking until my knuckles broke, I was such a knucklehead,\r\nLuckily I broke the door, I was busy locking in, clocking in,\r\nThe hands of time can't hold me I'm a rubberneck,\r\nSlippery, godliness, menacing when I'm confident,\r\nI know I speak a lot and mostly from the deepest depths of ignorance, arrogance, vanity, insanity,\r\nI know that I know not enough, I'm not a God, I'm losing touch, hypoesthesia, the walls are closing in on me,\r\nGive me a blessing Lord, set it on my lap,\r\nLike a broke chord, different notes I still remain attached,\r\nLike arpeggios, you're truly never stuck alone,\r\nEven as a solo tone, in the greatest scheme you are what makes the song\r\n\r\nBridge:\r\nSo break the mould, never fold when the pressure holds,\r\nDoors open, doors close that's just how it goes,\r\nSo break the mould, never fold when the pressure holds,\r\nDoors open, doors close that's just how it goes (x2)\r\n\r\nVerse 2:\r\nLet me tell you how it started, how regardless they regard me as a king,\r\nIt's alarming how I calmly still awake up from this dream,\r\nI was scrawny, scratching tickets for a prize that wasn't real,\r\nI was hardly harmless, harnessing my talent to be seen,\r\nAfter all the promise I left my matric without a deal,\r\nJust a D on my certificate, my work ethic was weak,\r\nI was smarter, harder, clowning in the class like every week,\r\nI would rather pass than hear I have potential I could reach,\r\nI was fidgety, a fidget-spinner wouldn't keep me still,\r\nHad a PhD in mastering my thoughts into belief,\r\nPopularity was killing me, to women I appealed,\r\nMy insanity, a lack of guidance, drinking to the deep,\r\nAnd my sanctity, a peace of mind, was smoking 'til I sleep,\r\nWhat a tragedy, a sip of wine can never truly heal,\r\nSo I did my time with words and sharpened bars I made with steel,\r\nDid a Russian Bear collab, I had some billboards on the streets,\r\nHad a custom bottle, so I pushed the weight like it was cheap,\r\nWas abandoned now my family saw the heights I could achieve,\r\nSo I thought I should get at 'em like the serpent spoke to Eve,\r\nI was starving, carving, finally blossom, thoughts would surely creep,\r\nSo I took the bus to study hard and moved to JHB,\r\nFinally pushed the start, I raised the bar and went after degrees,\r\nIt would surely rise, I compromised, the journey would be steep,\r\nLearned some instruments and sang in choirs, I could barely speak,\r\nAfter all I always wanted more,\r\nRunning 'fore I ever crawled,\r\nPlanning how to grow the core,\r\nSo we did it all,\r\nManifesting the Ellipsis store,\r\nDeveloping the system, shifting business 'til we got it all,\r\nGod is all.","download_count":88,"play_count":1,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":2,"download_count_24_at":"2025-07-03","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/638\/b59\/ea7\/thumb_909901_300_300_0_0_crop.png","status_reason":"published","status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}