Lift Off

I'm off of the earth

On a ride, alone

Yeah

Lift off like Virgin Galactic

My Richard’s too Branson to fuck with you bastards

Very legendary, that’s some matter-of-fact shit

You're the opposite of stars like "rats" spelled backwards

I flow poems out to Saturn and past it

Easy as a standard anti-gravity backflip

Satellite tracking can’t map out my tactics

I spit the same shit they split an atom in half with

No, it’s not what I want but it had to be

I spent six months just recharging my battery

Imagine me quitting, what a travesty that’d be

You space shuttle challengers are nothing but tragedies

So take care on the path that you’re headed

I'm the father to your style, don’t you ever forget it

I don’t drop mikes, only let it smoke where I set it

And I don’t play, even when they press it, get it?

I'm off of the earth

On a ride, alone

I'm driftin' away

Out of time, afloat

Away from the truth

Away from the night, away from the day

I'm off of the earth

On a ride, alone

(Please brace for impact)

I must've went to space and got sent back

But I’m still intact, in fact, take a picture of me

You could see that I’m a star with your lens cracked, supernova

In Caesar’s Palace, stunting on my opponents

'Cause history will show we done been to war like Romans

Did that dance with the devil, Hell hot as a kettle

So it’s no wonder why I put this ice on all of my metal

And wear that shit like a medal, used to think I was a joker

No Jared Leto when I said I’d get us out the ghetto

Slam my foot on the pedal, book a studio

When I couldn’t afford instrumentals, fuck it, record acapella

Flying coach, dreaming Coachella until they banned me

Now they like Bambi's mother - dead - I’m onto these Grammy's

I’m rolling these grams gladly, purple and green like Daphne

Shades on like Velma, hair long like Shaggy

Crushin' addies in my water got my voice raspy

Haven’t slept since California and that shit was last week

Paranoid when I sleep, but when I’m high I’m happy

That’s why I need to kiss the sky when I get stuck in the valley

Lift off

I'm off of the earth

On a ride, alone

I'm driftin' away

Out of time, afloat

Away from the truth

Away from the night, away from the day

I'm off of the earth

On a ride, alone

• Artist:Mike Shinoda
• Album:Post Traumatic (2018)