EQ - Counting Stars [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]
A lot of people live their life inside of a convention
I finally broke it just because I couldn't stand it
What I don't understand is the pressure to act solidified
When it's ridiculous to expect to know what the plan is
Gettin' ahead of ourselves populated the planet
To levels beyond capacity that the earth couldn't handle
And we just ignore it, cause in the nature of man
It's the self instead of collective we feed like wax to a candle

Difficult for any man to ever imagine taking off his own
And walking inside another one's sandles
More likely to catch me flipping samples than channels
And telling somebody I know they can (in)'stead of can't do

I never cancelled my plans cause you can't understand my path
And the fact that I'm chasing destiny
I took a chance and I ran with my heart
Now I can't look back for the fact that this life is testing me

I don't need college to drop knowledge thought that's convention
I was always gifted, but always in detention
So they fed me amphetamines for the kid's attention
You might think that's regrettable for the kid to mention, but

It's part of my past, now I can grasp it
The future gives you answers you didn't know you could ask for
It's part of my past, now I can grasp it
The future gives you answers you didn't know you could ask for

[Verse 2]
But no, there's
Never a star that the kid would wish on
Never been a wisher, cause I rely on ambition
Pick an instrumental, turn it into a sizzong
Never felt the pressure to prove I can sing like sizzongs, cause

That shit is true and I know it, that's all that matters
I ain't got to prove to nobody I'm more than just a rapper
It'll prove itself . . gotta give it time
Gotta take the words .. gotta give em life
So I can take the blind, and I can give em sight
Then I can take my rhymes, and I give em light
Cause they've been in the dark with the end of the alphabet
Countin' em while I'm trying to change the world like I be Malcolm X
Learning it's a close to impossible task without respect
Fortunately, conquering the earth's what I set out for next
Giving inspiration to niggas that haven't found it yet
Until the day I'm finally six below the ground and dead