Paper Trail Prophet (version 2)

Intro

Paper trail, paper trail, prophet with the pen

(Young Ledger)

Every receipt tell a story where I've been

Ledger talk

Verse

Started with a shoebox, counting singles by the lamp

Now the numbers got commas, momma call it "the stamp"

Three a.m. still awake, spreadsheet glowing on my face

Every dollar got a memory, every check got a place

Cousin doubted my hustle, said the odds ain't in my favor

Now he asking for advice, tryna study my behavior

I was folding up flyers, passing 'em out on the block

Now I'm folding up contracts, watch tickin', prophet clock

Grandma's kitchen table, that's where the vision was born

Now I'm signing on marble, different table, same storm

They said slow down, patience, I said patience got a price

Every hour that I'm sleeping is an hour I ain't twice

Built it out the basement, wires crossing like my nerves

Every setback was a lesson, every loss adjust the curve

Prophet with the paper, I predict it 'fore it's written

Watch the trail I'm leaving, every step is intermittent

Chorus

I'm a paper trail prophet, reading numbers like scripture

Every receipt's a chapter, every check is a picture

Started scattered, now it's patterns, watch me connect the dots

I predicted this exact life, wrote it down when I had not

Paper trail prophet, prophet, prophet

Paper trail prophet, watch me profit

Verse

Moved from cash apps to accounts with actual weight

Used to chase the come-up, now the come-up chasing fate

Got investors calling, asking how I read the tape

I say "patience is a currency, most people can't relate"

Bought my mother out that duplex, put her name on something solid

Every signature I write feel like closing out a ballad

Used to hide the mail when bills was stacking like a levy

Now the mailbox bringing checks, my ledger stayin' heavy

Old friends want a piece now, act like they was riding shotgun

I remember empty tables, remember when they wasn't

Every skeptic turned a chapter in the book I'm always writing

Every "no" I got became the fuel behind the lighting

I don't flex the watches, I flex the balance growing

I don't chase the flashlight, I become the thing that's glowing

Prophet in the making, watch the pattern start repeating

Every dollar got a purpose, every purpose keeps me eating

Chorus

I'm a paper trail prophet, reading numbers like scripture

Every receipt's a chapter, every check is a picture

Started scattered, now it's patterns, watch me connect the dots

I predicted this exact life, wrote it down when I had not

Paper trail prophet, prophet, prophet

Paper trail prophet, watch me profit

Bridge

Sometimes I go back and read the pages when it hurt

When the numbers didn't move, when I questioned my own worth

But the trail don't lie, it show you exactly where you bled

So I frame the losses now, hang 'em up inside my head

The prophet ain't the flex, the prophet is the follow-through

Every page I filled with faith when faith was all I knew

Outro

Paper trail, paper trail, still adding up the sum