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Day One

by XAP

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Day One is for my kids. It's for the inhabitants of the home. It's for the parents who take the responsibility of raising their kids into respectable adults deadly serious. It's grown folks music.

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Intro...
I'm down for whatever
Despite the stormy weather
Forget a raindrop touching you
I'll give you my umbrella
Refuge from the storm
You're the reason I was born
It's been an honor to have known you since day one

Verse 1...
One pure love I've ever known in my life
I've watched you grow from simple seeds
into my world over night
There's nothing like these little kids
that makes you wanna build the bridge
To the future for them
I did it with a pad a pen
I'd take a bullet for the ones I truly love
We might not be rich but that's the gift
contained inside the hug
Is worth more than a million dollars
Or a record deal
They can say that I'm crazy but that's just the way I feel
I know what's real I know what's the illusion
I've seen the desperate distribution of organized confusion
I push you hard to be better than I ever could be
And you're my heart never distrust what you should be
I want success for you cause I know what it feels like
To have failure tailing you when they're telling you
You don't push right
the roots they grow under ground
Feet please don't fail me now
I looking for the desperados
When I enter town
blaow!

Chorus...
I'm down for whatever
Despite the stormy weather
Forget a raindrop touching you
I'll give you my umbrella
Refuge from the storm
You're the reason I was born
It's been an honor to have known you since day one
Day One


Verse 2...
I can't believe all the conversations we've been having
It seems to me if I can teach you anything
that is magic
My father didn't bother
Its an honor to be your daddy
To have that position and that role
The only thing that makes me happy
Cause the world is a dark place
and I never lied about that
Sometimes I sit up night and I pace
And I write about that
I won't you to believe that anything in your life is possible
That there's no need for you to see the same types of obstacles
That I did
cause as a kid growing up it was kinda fucked
Being a victim of circumstance
Just chalk it up to hard luck
You deserve a sense of security
For someone to protect your innocence and your purity
Just have the trust and the courage to be free
But if you do right work hard Observe the natural laws
You can overcome whatever flaws Cause you to pause
before you enter the jaws Knock out the teeth and dive head first
then emerge
from the belly of the beast in truth and victorious
ya heard me

Chorus...
I'm down for whatever
Despite the stormy weather
Forget a raindrop touching you
I'll give you my umbrella
Refuge from the storm
You're the reason I was born
It's been an honor to have known you since day one
Day One

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released January 28, 2014
Produced by: PayDay Jones
Executive Produced: Xap

All Lyrics by: Randall Quinn ASCAP

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XAP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

XAP has shared the stage with such luminaries as The Roots, Cypress Hill, Sublime w/Rome, Common, Mr. Lif, RJD2, Bahamadia, ED OG, Digable Planets, Ratdog, Steel Pulse, and more, rocking major stages like The Electric Factory, The TLA, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Trocadero Theatre, The House of Blues, and World Cafe Live. He has also played festivals such as All Good Festival. ... more

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