CHAPTER 31: 'SOONER THAN LATER'

(Originally Posted Tuesday March 3, 2015)

Now that we’re nearing the end of So Far Gone, the second-last song I want to do is another 'semi-ballad,' “Sooner Than Later.”

            To be honest, I get more interested in this song after Drizzy starts to rap. The delivery and pattern of,

“Nights falling, lights glowing/

and I’m just try’na pay the price owing/

and I don’t want to feel the comfort of my ice showing/

and I ain’t try’na be without you at the right moment/

n***a nice going/ 

Is it worth it?/ 

That decision?/ 

’cause hearts break and I ain’t try’na be in that collision ...”

makes me like the song more than I would if the verse wasn't there, but I still do appreciate the honesty of the song as a piece of work. It may not compare to the song that will be on Friday's final So Far Gone post, but, again, both songs are completely different ...

            ... See you FRIDAY!!!

DRAKE - SOONER THAN LATER

 Chapter 31: Sooner Than Later. / Written By: Jae Antoinette

KENDRA:

Almost don’t want to be seen right now … I feel like such shit. How I went from having “it all” to having completely nothing is besides me. I can’t think, can’t function—can’t see myself in the mirror without being reminded of what a huge and complete ass I was. Just totally ass-backwards. Sooner or later your actions are going to catch up with you, and no sooner than later, mine did.

            A buffoon, a moron; a complete and utter joke, I don’t know how I had convinced myself … What exactly was my motive? Everything was looking cozy until it all got snatched away from me, and now what do I have?

            I thought I had it all figured out. Turns out I was only half-right—and the wrong side of the half. I used my abilities for no good, no one’s good but my own, and now that’s just where I’ve gotten me—here, on my own.

I couldn’t face Affion. Not after the way I burnt him at my birthday party. No way. Not after calling him down and leaving my boyfriend or him and calling it off and putting us back on … not after all of that. I wouldn’t even dare. The only thing to do right now is wallow in self-pity and loss and hope for my turn at redemption. The fight is bitter-sweet, but at least I have hope for it. I’ve never been a quitter, and I don’t intend to start now …

TO BE CONTINUED …       

**Bonus Track**         

DRAKE - THE CALM