Released: April 25, 2013

Songwriter: Abstract

Producer: Cryo Music

[Verse 1]
Subtract the light, subtract the heart
Add in the pain, put me in the dark
Yeah, now give me a couple problems
Add in a pad and a pen so I can solve 'em
Now add a little hate
Add a little pressure, let's see what we can make
Now add back in the heart
Brought with the confidence thought made for the art
Here's the product of that environment
Style's elevators to firemen, don't try it, bitch
Too fly, class five, rapid with the flow
Tongue totes, TEC-9s, yeah, I had to let 'em know
I've been laying down the dynamite, know we 'bout to blow
Feel I got the green light, yeah, I knew we had to go
Lames doing all this shit I ain't ever do
Game takes balls, got mine draggin' like I'm Goku

[Chorus]
Do the math lil homie, yeah, do the math
All the odds say we're farther than we should be at
Do the math, yeah, do the math
We doin' better than we ever have

[Bridge]
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go

[Verse 2]
Say my flow's average, what the fuck you mean?
Miscalculated your equation, can't divide the team
Now we only multiply
Said I had a dream to live, but really who the fuck was I?
A kid from the middle of nowhere
Said I'm gonna be someone, they told me not to go there
What you think is gonna happen, think you really gonna go and make a future out of rappin'?
Yeah, and I did it with a passion
Like all the loves of my life, one hundred, no distractions
Made a racket in the game, ballin' with no backspin
You can call me Bronson, I'm ready for action
Killlin' rappers twice, eatin' ghosts like I'm Pacman
If my career's a joke, why am I the one laughin'?
'Cause maybe you didn't get it
Skinny motherfucker, but I know they all see me flexin'

[Chorus]
Do the math lil homie, yeah, do the math
All the odds say we're farther than we should be at
Do the math, yeah, do the math
We doin' better than we ever have

[Bridge]
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go

[Verse 3]
'Cause the team been making moves like U-Hauls
Pullin' more weight than I ever seen you haul
Fuck the world that be trippin' off the salary
Be broke doing what I love before I live for hourlies
Real shit, real spit, real work, add it up
Real sick, real kids, yeah, what you get is us
Yeah, and we ain't ever changin'
Take a shot of reality, I got dreams to chase with
No days off, they say I go in sick
Made for this shit and I ain't 'bout to go and pull the Benedict
Most people would break the chair the way that I been rockin' it
Blowin' up, putting kerosene on my cigarette
Yeah, hold a lighter to that
Cast a light to my future and pull the plug out my past
But to get here you ain't even got to look at the math
Easy as that, but if you really into the facts
A-B plus S-T plus R-A plus C-T
No matter how you do the math, the world knows that that's me
Left class to make classics, no one can pass me
A for the team, I'm everything they want to B
Get to C all the things that most could only hope to D for dream
Come on now, let's finish the equation
Put me in my right place, I'm tired of waitin'
Yeah, I'm tired of waiting

[Bridge]
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go
Add the highs, subtract the lows
We finally on, so on we go

Abstract

Growing up in New Jersey, Luke Terkovich, otherwise known as Abstract, was involved with music at an early age. Learning how to play piano, electric guitar, and the drums were Luke’s first involvement with music — and he did it all before 6th grade. With a move across country from New Jersey to Jackson, Wyoming, the distance between learning and playing new instruments got larger. It wasn’t until several years later that Luke began to mess around with freestyling during his high school years spent at Jackson Hole High. Evolving his newly found musical expression into Raised in Jackson, WY, Abstract is known for his immense musical versatility and affinity for providing uplifting music for a turbulent world. With a knack for storytelling, he provides introspective motivation to all who take the time to dive into his work. Notably known for his remix of Ruth Bs Lost Boy “Neverland” which has garnered hundreds of millions of plays on YouTube, his work with Drumma Battalion and Roze, and his 2016 album Something to Write Home About. He heads a collective known as “A Team Worldwide” 5 musicians from 4 different countries. Producers Drumma Battalion of Norway, Blulake of Sweden, Cryo Music of Scotland, and Abstract. Coming off his first overseas tour with YONAS, the ATWW collective is gearing up to drop Abstracts new album/experience late summer 2018.writing detailed lyrics, he began to find that he could vent the stresses of his everyday life through creating music. Slowly progressing through the years of his new town where he calls home; balancing school, life, and music developed Luke to become Abstract.

Trying to find his sound was a young teenager who just looked to get something written down and then translated into music, and eventually rap. Still in his caterpillar stage of metamorphosis was a young Abstract who released his first ever collection of songs, properly named The Dream.

In 2012, through YouTube, Abstract met Craig McAllister, a producer from Glasgow, Scotland. During that period, Abstract was in the midst of working on On My Own Time and was the first time Craig showed up with Abstract. Afterwards, the duo started to mesh extremely well and produced the five projects, Under Lights & Microscopes, A Life To Live By, Dreaming With Eyes Open, The Science Of Feeling Tall, and We Are The Artist.