Rex White - Ecclesiastes 2:10 Lyrics

There is no happy ending
I mean we all gon' die
Real shit if Jesus wept that means we all gon' cry
I mean they all gon' lie

Teach you whatever they want
Feed you whatever they want
Real shit, lead you wherever they want
This ain't a joke to me I stand up and I say what they won't

I make own path now
I got the torch but I just can't tell who it's gon' pass down to
Because I've been around you

I've see your style
I've seen how you move
I know your game and I've seen how you do

And I just can't get with it
Nah
2007 I was rocking the fitted
The all black Yankee cap when we'd pull up at the mall
Felt I looked broke without a bag, you'd let me carry shit
And now I got these burdens everyday I carry it
I turned my habits into bills and I can't bury it
They hit me on my line, and I just might not answer it
My mom had called me said my father had that cancer shit
There is no happy ending

This may be last letter
Man I can't lie I just can't get it together
Times got hard, but good news at least my dad got better
I grew up faster the summer after

I barely even touched the booth that year
Man them bills went through that roof that year
I'm working 1-9 and 10-7 (Damn)
I can't chill, I fell asleep at the wheel
It's getting deeper than I expected

Look how it all turned out
I built some bridges it's amazing how it all burnt now
I bet they'll never crossed me
I wanna think I stayed the same but it's somewhere you lost me

Fr

I know the end is near
I just hate I had to the end this here
I know the difference in something righteous and something evil
I know the difference in praise and worship and praising people

I grew up Pentecostal
At 21 years old and I decide to read the gospel
I started from the beginning, I hit Ecclesiastes
It made me search inside myself and then "He" really asked me

Is there a meaning to life?
Is there a meaning to work?
I found some things inside the Bible had me questioning church, Man...

Somehow I stopped attending
I thought I told you there's no happy ending

I... Won't make the same mistakes twice
2 years after.. it ain't clear I just been rolling the dice man
I know them snakes been eyeing me
I... I, I know
Them Jakes been eyein'
I put that price to 25 and then them quakes went flying

I know my mom still praying
Feds did a sweep and that shit kicked me out my lease
And she don't know where I been staying

I guess she know that now
My life changed and I can't go back now

There is no happy ending

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired
I refused my heart no pleasure
My heart took delight in all my labor
And this was the reward for all my toil
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
And what I had toiled to achieve
Everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind
Nothing was gained under the sun
Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom
And also madness and folly
What more can the king's successors do
Than what has already been done?
I saw that wisdom is better than folly
Just as light is better than darkness
The wise have eyes in their heads
While the fool walks in the darkness
But I came to realize
That the same fate overtakes them both

Then I said to myself

"The fate of the fool will overtake me also
What then do I gain by being wise?"
I said to myself
"This too is meaningless"
For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered
The days have already come when both have been forgotten
Like the fool, the wise too must die!