Otitis - Letter to a Stranger Lyrics

Write the date upon the header, sign my name, uh
This my Letter to a Stranger
Write the date upon the header, sign my name, uh
This my Letter to a Stranger

Everybody say the same, ain't you curious, Mike?
Who the other half that made you, why you blurring your sight?
Told them people take it easy, ain't no worries in life
All this ignorance is bliss, all is buried, it died

Other night, I'm with my lady, we're talkin' 'bout what my stance was
Like do I wanna die with the question of you unanswered?
Told her thanks for makin' me think and keepin' her man loved
Kissed her, told her be safe, started writing these stanzas

Curiosity struck, I Googled your name
Found you got a Twitter, I clicked, no room to be fazed
Couldn't hold it back, when I seen, the mood had been changed
Noticed that we got the same features all in our face, like

Goddamn, man, it really is you
70, Manhattan, what else have you lived through?
Remember as a kid I'd want pictures to dig through
But mom had been destroyin' 'em, tryin' to rid you

Only pic I found was one of you and my mom at your wedding
The feeling I got when seeing you's equal calm and upsetting
In the garage, I'm peddling something dirty and telling
My mom had seen me look at it, she took it and started yelling, huh

I wasn't even allowed any curiosity
Wonder if she allowed you to even talk to me
Wonder what you about, have you ever thought of me?
Do I wanna find out, what'll be the cost for me?

Mom had hid you, and that lock can't melt
Deemed you as f*ckin' terrible, that box can't help
Mom demanded support and bet she taught that well
Helped her write you a letter, 'bout my got damn self

And that was when I was eight, farther back in the day
When you came out to FLA and I asked you if you would stay
You ain't have shit to say, the thought of you later blackened
I wonder was that the way, you'd really want it to happen

Anyway, it says you act for a living
Look at me, I'm tryna rap for a living
We equally love words, and so it's fitting
Genetic factors occurred, and I thank you for what I'm given

Fumblin' through your tweets, all your interests and likes
From the movies that you see, to everything that you type
I'm witnessin' part of me in who you be and it's nice
To satiate hate to healing, to feel like I'm building light

As a kid I was questionin' where you're at
Only boy in my school who's lackin' a dad
I wrote my name on them papers, feelin' I'm trapped
'Cuz with my first name, came your last that I attached

But after all of these years, gained my experience
In relationships, tasted that pain is serious
In the face of adversity, are they hearin' us?
Or are they perfectly-crafted, and we delirious?

I realized a story got two sides, I never heard you chime in
Need me a new side, before all of you dies
It's somethin' that I should act on
I just need to speak some things before the track gone

I was strong for your wife, man of the house
Self-taught in this life, lion from mouse
Every bit of that height, granted in drought
I ain't never cared for the fight, damnit I'm out

Maybe you wished to play dad, I won't know till we talk
Maybe I wish to play dead, keep the memories in chalk
Maybe you really wanted me as a son but you couldn't
Maybe my mom was tryna convince you but you just wouldn't

So as I'm lookin' at half of the life that made me
Without a clue if you're true, did you type betray me?
Should I wish you were here or be glad you wasn't?
Should I send you a message or be like "f*ck it?"

Cuz Grandpa was my role model growin' up
And my best friend's dad, I call him Pops, always showin' up
Am I betraying my mom for plannin' to learn?
Should I really go open this can of worms?

Hopin' that if I call, I don't regret this now
I'm scared of hearin' you warn me mom had left shit out, look
Write the date upon the header, sign my name, uh
To be continued, this my Letter to a Stranger

Letter to a Stranger
This my Letter to a Stranger
Letter to a Stranger
This my Letter to a Stranger