Lyrics
Intro
Just woke up from another bad dream
I did the thing my daddy did to us
When you walked out on my mother (Yeah)
That trauma left us scramblin' for cover (Yeah)
I'm bein' haunted by the question
Did the apple fall far enough?
And it's on me like a vulture (Like a vulture)
All these fears tryna shape me like a sculptor (Like a sculptor) (Ooh)
Pre-Chorus
'Cause I be hangin' up and then you call back
I pick it up and then I'm right back (Ooh ooh)
And every time I let you come around
You pullin' me down, I'm bad with it, yeah (Ooh ooh)
I hit the valleys, but I passed through (I passed through)
I see the failures, but I can't lose (I can't lose) (Ooh ooh)
I think it's finally time to tell you (Time to tell you)
I put that trouble in my rearview
Chorus
(Step down) I step down on them letdowns
(Letdowns) My top down, goin' outta town
I switched it up for somethin' brand new
I put that trouble in my rearview, yeah
Verse 2
Been seein' double for a long time (For a long time)
Can't keep my eyes up off the rewind (Off the rewind)
I'm back and forth like the ocean
Tryna move ahead, but the past is ferocious
Heavy days turn to heavy nights
But heavy love makes a burden light
There's only One I can turn to
King of today and the King of my rearview (Ooh ooh)
Pre-Chorus
I turn around, it's like I never left
Your mercy's gotta be my greatest gift
I get in a little too deep
It's easy to see, I'm bad with it
I hit the valleys, but I passed through (Yeah, we passed through)
I see the battles, but I can't lose (No, we can't lose)
I think it's finally time to tell you
I put them troubles in my rearview (Yeah)
Chorus (Repeat)
Bridge
We movin' on, we movin'
We movin' on, we movin'
We movin' on, we movin'
Uh, I put them troubles in my rearview
(I'm movin' on) We movin' on, we movin'
(Yeah, I'm movin' on) We movin' on, we movin'
(Yeah, I'm movin' on) We movin' on, we movin'
(I'm prayin', movin' on) I put them troubles in my rearview
Outro
I put them troubles in my rearview
I put that trouble in my rearview
Video
Meaning & Inspiration
"Rearview" opens by naming a specific, painful pattern directly, repeating a father's abandonment and admitting fear that the same trauma shaped a similar outcome. That unflinching admission, wondering if the apple fell far enough from the tree, frames the entire song around breaking a cycle rather than merely surviving it.
Its pre-chorus describes an addictive push and pull with old trouble, hanging up and calling back, before naming a decision to finally speak the pattern aloud and leave it behind. A second verse names one source of help directly, describing someone as the King of today and of every troubled memory, crediting mercy as the reason a repeated cycle no longer has to repeat.
Rooted in contemporary Christian hip-hop's confessional style, the song functions as a testimony of breaking generational trauma through named reliance on that mercy, its closing bridge repeating a simple declaration of forward movement as the practical outworking of leaving old trouble behind.
Related Scripture
- Lamentations 3:22-23 Describes God's mercies as new every morning, echoed in the song's description of mercy as the reason old trouble no longer defines the present.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Describes the old passing away and the new coming, echoed in the song's declaration of switching to something brand new and leaving trouble in the rearview.