Sunday Bakare - Material World Lyrics

Palm trees cover me wherever I stand
Young kid tryna make whatever he can
Living off in a foreign land
Where the girls lay flat out in the sand
People come from far and wide
Different shapes and colors of every kind
Still believe in possibilities
Yet they all just lost their way

See the place where I go
Everybody wanna know who I know
The unfortunate cycle
In a material world
Superficial land where
Everyone pretends to be best friends
Imitate and spend
But it's meaningless in the end

Cars inch past as burn one in my lane
Traffic on the 101 again
Looking across with full disdain
As every soul feels my same pain
Moving solo at a slow pace
Yet we all tryna make it to same place
Isolate in pursuit of our dreams
Cause if we don't make rent we can't stay

See the place where I go
Everybody wanna know who I know
The unfortunate cycle
In a material world
Superficial land where
Everyone pretends to be best friends
Imitate and spend
But it's meaningless in the end

See, I'm in the city of elusive dreams
Prodigies, wannabes, and in-between
Tryna make it in the same scene
Scrappin hard just to get to the top of heap
But that's the way the game goes
People stepping on toes
And everyone knows
To buy the same clothes
To stay in the vogue
Imposters, compromising every little thing to get farther
But recognizing yourself in the mirror got harder
Nah time to leave the matrix
Back to the basics
We breaking out the cages
Face it, you don't have to fake it till you make it
Maybe, if you had stayed yourself you wouldn't be so lost
Don't let them dictate who you are
Just bet on yourself and
Then you'll realize
That maintaining all those lies
Was preventing you from reaching new places
Invest in your greatness

See the place where I go
Everybody wanna know who I know
The unfortunate cycle
In a material world
Superficial land where
Everyone pretends to be best friends
Imitate and spend
But it's meaningless in the end

See the place where I go
Everybody wanna know who I know
The unfortunate cycle
In a material world
Superficial land where
Everyone pretends to be best friends
Imitate and spend
But it's meaningless in the end

Aye, yeah it's meaningless in the end
Yeah aye, yeah it's meaningless in the end
Yeah aye, yeah it's meaningless in the end
Yeah aye, yeah it's meaningless in the end