Dionne Farris

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Everything Will Be Alright

Matt Wertz







Honey Honey

Julie C







Nice Day

Ephemera






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Bikini

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Icing

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Soul Mais Bossa

Tamy






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Da da da da
Yo my pride is heavy as two tons of scrap metal
inside of a black kettle hanging on the back of a bike while a cat pedals.
I mean I would normally never say
that today I’m in a bad mood got eyes black like a raccoon.
But that’s not the man you looking for I know it you need a black man with the confidence of a poet and today I’m a blow it
Cuz truth is I’m not there in fact I’m sorta scared of the direction my life is going
hey it was good knowing you but…

Chorus
Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

The truth is you sorta the most beautiful-ist girl I’ve seen in a while
Your pearly white teeth spread like an eagle
You’re so regal when you smile
I see you on the beach with a long sarong with a wild print like
Uh huh but uh uh
Cuz still I’m just a nappy headed artist and you’ll regret it the hardest once you see my moods and attitudes
Move as far as you can from this man I’m warning you flesh is weak don’t let me put no thorn in you
At another time and date it a be great to just hook up
I’ll be filled with sooka sooka sookie sookie now
My mojo would over flow a good looker now
Show yo friends the type a fish that you hooking’ now
But as of now I’m just a fat cow and I’m feelin low
Weak and uneventful stomach like a pillow
Not hard like a brillo pad I’m feeling bad and it’s sad
If only you would have come at a different time I wish you had but…

Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

(Female)
I'm feelin you, I want you, I know you want me too.
I'll just give you time to unwind, relax your mind.
I'm here, don't fear, I want to be near

It’s so amazing that you’re still given me play even after everything that I say what are you?
Some type of cultural daffodil the princess of some distant land where your face is on they dollar bill
And like you coming to America to hook up with the real thang I guess I’m Eddie Murphy on Boomerang
Feeling like I lost my groove but that’s alright with you you picking me up licking my cut fitting’ my rut you hitting’ me up

Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

You giving me love
Wow
You making me feel better
uh

Da da da da
Yo my pride is heavy as two tons of scrap metal
inside of a black kettle hanging on the back of a bike while a cat pedals.
I mean I would normally never say
that today I’m in a bad mood got eyes black like a raccoon.
But that’s not the man you looking for I know it you need a black man with the confidence of a poet and today I’m a blow it
Cuz truth is I’m not there in fact I’m sorta scared of the direction my life is going
hey it was good knowing you but…

Chorus
Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

The truth is you sorta the most beautiful-ist girl I’ve seen in a while
Your pearly white teeth spread like an eagle
You’re so regal when you smile
I see you on the beach with a long sarong with a wild print like
Uh huh but uh uh
Cuz still I’m just a nappy headed artist and you’ll regret it the hardest once you see my moods and attitudes
Move as far as you can from this man I’m warning you flesh is weak don’t let me put no thorn in you
At another time and date it a be great to just hook up
I’ll be filled with sooka sooka sookie sookie now
My mojo would over flow a good looker now
Show yo friends the type a fish that you hooking’ now
But as of now I’m just a fat cow and I’m feelin low
Weak and uneventful stomach like a pillow
Not hard like a brillo pad I’m feeling bad and it’s sad
If only you would have come at a different time I wish you had but…

Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

(Female)
I'm feelin you, I want you, I know you want me too.
I'll just give you time to unwind, relax your mind.
I'm here, don't fear, I want to be near

It’s so amazing that you’re still given me play even after everything that I say what are you?
Some type of cultural daffodil the princess of some distant land where your face is on they dollar bill
And like you coming to America to hook up with the real thang I guess I’m Eddie Murphy on Boomerang
Feeling like I lost my groove but that’s alright with you you picking me up licking my cut fitting’ my rut you hitting’ me up

Baby ? you caught me at a bad time
In my life ? my head is off the hook like a busy line
Would it be alright ? if I decline your flirts
You should refine your search
I can tell you, you deserve better than this but…

You giving me love
Wow
You making me feel better
uh

I’ve been lost in my own ways and I’m getting weary (How far is heaven)
And I know that I need to change my ways of living (How far is heaven)


From church to Liquor store we search for healing
Big crowded world filled with lonely humans
I’m a M.C. battling with melody envy
Cuz melodies the only thing that seems to sooth me
So we rock organs adjust the B-3’s
Have the folks clap to the rap taking it
Back to the color - purple - church
Where ladies shouting’ joy in the midst of hurt!
Revolutionaries have a curled fist at first
Then years pass and it turns to a clasp
They ask in the midst of all
God show me ways to resist the fall!
Yes yes yawl

Pressure pressure the whole under
Can't stop the crime can't stop the killing
Watch dem life dem ah keep going under
Somebody lend ah hand we hafta save dem
Roots and culture
We have to teach dem
Cause it ah the root of dem life
Bigger bigger blessings they hope they receive them
Pray for them every night
I gotta change my ways
I need you every day
Don't wanna make no excuses
My life is so confusing
Way down deep inside
I wanna tell ya what's on my mind
so sick of tryin I'm dyin
My heart hurts so I can't keep from cryin

Arrested Development coming
Alright
Pulling might from the inner cities
Always gritty
The people requesting us
We had enough of resting up
The best amongst us is refreshing us
Stand up my inner cities
Down trodden, brethren, we kin, we lend our love to ya
Mathematics, musical path, a musical wrath
19-member staff family
Ramming the inner city down the throats of the bourgeoisie
Did anyone tell you whose I be?
I be the cat that way back in 92
Reminded you that there’s more to do in the inner cities!

A.D. in this thang, man we go against the grain
It's a shame how the lame, done infiltrated the game
I'm for real, we got our own slang in the field
To identify the Jake from the fake and the real
For ever I love Atlanta, it's hotter than country grammar
Got old folks wearing white T's and bandannas
So if our style jumps off the track
Pick it up, Pick it up, Pick it up
Back on the scene, the projects apartment 74
First door on the left, man second floor
See, I never had a crib just a dresser drawer
Never stressing Big O she let her little professor grow
Hear the sounds from the corner like a serenade
Where the girls ball hogging like Dewayne Wade
So I moved to Westwood, man the best hood
Learned the game how not to be lame and how to dress good
You can find nines, dimes and stallions
Club full of freaks in Jesus piece medallions
I got the key to the city like I'm P. Diddy
Inner City, my city we keep it real gritty
Like throw backs, fitted hats, gold chain, gold teeth
Drug dealers and killers, they all about the rap beef
No curfew, these young boys will hurt you
It's very obvious that there's more to do in the Inner City

Arrested Development coming
Alright
Pulling might from the inner cities
Always gritty
The people requesting us
We had enough of resting up
The best amongst us is refreshing us
Stand up my inner cities
Down trodden, brethren, we kin, we lend our love to ya
Mathematics, musical path, a musical wrath
19-member staff family
Ramming the inner city down the throats of the bourgeoisie
Did anyone tell you whose I be?
I be the cat that way back in 92
Reminded you that there’s more to do in the inner cities!

A.D. in this thang, man we go against the grain
It's a shame how the lame, done infiltrated the game
I'm for real, we got our own slang in the field
To identify the Jake from the fake and the real
For ever I love Atlanta, it's hotter than country grammar
Got old folks wearing white T's and bandannas
So if our style jumps off the track
Pick it up, Pick it up, Pick it up
Back on the scene, the projects apartment 74
First door on the left, man second floor
See, I never had a crib just a dresser drawer
Never stressing Big O she let her little professor grow
Hear the sounds from the corner like a serenade
Where the girls ball hogging like Dewayne Wade
So I moved to Westwood, man the best hood
Learned the game how not to be lame and how to dress good
You can find nines, dimes and stallions
Club full of freaks in Jesus piece medallions
I got the key to the city like I'm P. Diddy
Inner City, my city we keep it real gritty
Like throw backs, fitted hats, gold chain, gold teeth
Drug dealers and killers, they all about the rap beef
No curfew, these young boys will hurt you
It's very obvious that there's more to do in the Inner City

(I wouldn’t trade what I get from my kids, the feeling of security that they get from me. Knowing that my life is making a difference in their life, knowing that they need me, I wouldn’t trade that for nothing)

Living Life-Life is love
(Nobody believes me anyway)

Love of woman or man
The love of taking a stand of trust.
You bust your butt on single scenes for what?
If not to find love.
You know it’s love or lack of love that causes gangs or causes thugs.
Mothers & sons, fathers and daughters all are in need of someone. And at the time that we don’t find it, we design a plan…we search the land for woman or man to give what we need in order to live!
We get hurt and break our spirits & our hearts.
We start to fear it… we get further and further growing harder and harder… some even say why bother!

Living Life-Life is love
(Nobody believes me anyway)

Every single person ought to have a daughter or a son
Someone to love above themselves to help you grasp the depths of love
It’s radical! It’s tragic though how people underestimate the greatness and relentless, miraculous stakes of love.
I’m serious we see terrorist hardened to the core willing to kill mame or hurt just so they can be heard!
They’ll kill women or children, we’re quick to say that they’re villains but every bodies got feelings, the things that they’ve been just dealing with!

Living Life-Life is love
(Nobody believes me anyway)

The heart of a man is complex, who can understand it
Next, we taking love for granted, never the way the Father planned it
A seed was planted in the children, love your daddies and you mothers Brothers love your sisters, all of my sisters love your brothers
Because we are getting older, we got the weight of the world on our shoulders
But hold your head up soldier, although I know your heart is growing colder
Similar to polar, love your family tipsy or sober
Magnolia resist the coke, and I'm not referring to cola
Because we fall in and out of love, shout love, doubt love
Husband or wife and now your whole life is about love
Too much or not enough love leads to rough love
Tough love, some overstand but handcuff love
A different race, dogs on the chase like who's next love
A different game, no one's ashamed of same sex love
Those loving respect, ought to try to respect love
It's One Love, I'm living to protect love But....
(Nobody believes me anyway)

Since the last time, since the last time

It's been two years since we rock stages together
We covered bases together and whether we all agreed or not
20/20 vision is hindsight and now we got that so we done got back

Some of our soldiers have fallen, so many years of toiling
Touring, tears falling, naw pouring jaded from the industries
Jabs a lil' slower like Muhammad Ali but still we able to last

So we go in the studio, it felt new but yet in a good way
It felt old routines, we did came back so lucid, we was boosted
We juiced it and came up with some tracks that's stupid

And people responded to 'em, heads on the blocks
With locks and baggie jeans, the whole scene was fond to 'em
And how we got the labels kissing our hind parts
We desired art and never sold out for the high chart positions

I have been a thousand places
Seen a million faces since the last time
(Since the last time)

I have been a thousand places
Seen a million faces since the last time
(Since the last time)

Many rap groups attempt to latch to the popular cultures statutes
And thus they detach their roots from the soil that kept them loose
And made what they delivered so true

There's a desert waste land of past artists that's so cruel
Feeling thrown out like woody in toy story two
And yo we felt that but let me tell you Satan, he dealt that
I think it's time to give him his deck back, c'mon now

I have been a thousand places
Seen a million faces since the last time
(Since the last time)

I have been a thousand places
Seen a million faces since the last time
(Since the last time)

Since the last time

I stand for children innocence in they eyes playing under blue skies trying out fake cries to see dey mamma sympathize wanting dey new toys thinking it a bring em joy thinking mom and dad are wack but later on they realize
Children playing in the dirt getting wet in the rain, falling till they learn that part of life is pain crawling till they learn that walking is another thing and running can come only when walking is no type of strain

I stand for beauty earth sky woman man or other worldly things like birth strife and death again and things that we cant touch like love faith and sacrifice things that we like much like good food and moon light cloud formations clear blue skies four season leaves and the colors that stop by great songs great art great books and stories unrecognized underdogs that later gain glory


The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am


I stand for truth political or spiritual and I know the truth can hurt but I’d rather hear it though whether truth about the past present future or all I know the man who hates truth is the man who will fall, I know that every single issue boils down to sin and the only way to kill sin is from within and the man who points his finger at everyone else has got 4 other finger pointed back to himself and that people don’t change cuz of words alone yet a nation can moved by one person whose strong and truth can be buried for moments of time but like the last day buried things are bound to rise…

The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am


As I stand, so I rise
Lift my tears up to the sky

I stand for something or everything I fall for even when I’m wrong yo you know my views we choose most of our paths and that’s just the truth even if most of our ways lead to further blues and sometimes I stand for nothing I just sit and listen cuz no matter how much I got there’s things I’m missing so when its all done and said I stand for this, when its all done and said I stand for this, when its all done and said I stand for this
Children beauty truth and something that stirs my insides inspires my very life cuz bottom line for everyone is you stand or sit, you stand or sit, you stand or sit, you stand or sit

As I stand, so I rise
Lift my tears up to the sky

The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am
The things that I stand for tell who I am

Yo
What can happen on an average beautiful day? You never know. Summer brings seasonal changes; it gets hot for a brother. On a beautiful sun- shiny day, I felt real free check out what happened to me.
A nice breeze going through my hair, I’m loving how it feels right now! Beautiful people around: man, women, child. Kids with the Hula hoops hips going round. Mothers breast-feeding, kids lips pressing down. Beautiful-ist women: white, yellow, red, black, brown and dreads. Melting pot going down! Definitely an aphrodisiac crowd. And it’s time for me to go on stage right now! I take command of the mic like POW! Six o’clock white woman in the 6th aisle. She and her friend be smiling at me so wild, and I must admit she has a beautiful smile!

I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine

Folks to the right won’t ya raise ya hands and the folks to ya left won’t ya raise ya hands.
From the front to the back won’t ya raise ya hands everybody in the joint won’t ya raise ya hands.
After the show there was an autograph signing and she squeezed back stage and got in line and…I was wrapped up with the fans Sharpie in my hand, there she goes again, beautiful smile long hair, brushed across my hand like silk I swear, no lie. This is not me trying to deny who I am nor my race, I know my black sisters are constantly debased, and the truth is black berries are my taste but I’m high off possibilities of this thing blossoming so I just give it a try. As she handed her num… I felt a little numb inside of my mind feeling like I just betrayed all of my kind. But without no delay, without more to say, without no consideration for my race she said,”yo why don’t you come to my place”. I said, “right away”

I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine.

Many would have me say that this girl was evil. We both human beings and I know we equal, but we hung out and talked and we walked and things. And some brothers gave me stares I said that ain’t fair we two humans beings here. And I ain’t confused, I know my history’s clear, the sunshine’s beaming on both kinds of hair. Wisdom speaking loud, some folks don’t want to hear.There’s nothing new under the sun, many things that was had to succumb to the rhythm of the drum cuz we’re children of the son. And only he’s seen what has been seen since the beginning of day one. And the truth is this story is more of a lesson. I’m actually married to a sister that’s a black one. But under the sun what ever color your attracting, just remember loves and action word and character is more so what we should prefer.

I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine

I need some time to ease my mind

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mamas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on.
Life is surrounded with so many insecurities
back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty.
I try to make my sanity, with the insane
God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money.
But, then again money can cause even more death.
when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all.
I dare say when price is right U can buy us all.
well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you.
I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move!
Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away from yo thang
All these things you put on me makes this brother sing...

Chorus:
I need some time to ease my mind.

Mind & soul is even more important then body
money can put my body in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & soul remotely dwells
within that fine spot between all messed up & hell.
And so I move on with confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist this wack society
Cuz if you don't resist, & I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it.
I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus
I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin'it.
Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me.
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace.
Until that day upon which my souls released!

Chorus

need some time need some time
when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real!

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mommas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.
And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.

That is why I tell you...

I need some time to ease my mind.

Lately I've been in a life like limbo
Looking out of a smudged up window
We're not sure where our lives are going
Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in

Don't know where our next dollar's coming from
Living the life of a poor musician
Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5
Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive

If it wasn't for the rhythm
I think we would have given up by now
This system has gotten the best of me
Now I pray for God to invest in me

My dignity, invest his glory
Give me the strength so I can finish the story
Keep on searching for the right way to go out
'Cause going out is what it's all about

huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active
Can't go with what looks attractive
Gotta learn all I can while I'm able
Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables

When we get our chance
To make a good living of the music we program
We don't sell out just to be sold out
Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about?

'Cause if they take away our contract
We still got talent and we still got contacts
'Cuase we're worked real hard to get this far
We're catching the bus before we bought the car
Ya see !

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Got to get political
Political I gotta get
Grown but can't hold my own
So this government needs to be overthrown

Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs
need to learn how to correctly shoot'em
Save those rounds for a revolution
Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system

But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz
'Cause ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers

So you you want out of the ghetto
First the political prisoners must be let go
And you must let go of your power master

You'll never get out without much discipline
Raise your fist but also raise your children
So when you die the movement moves on
'Cause with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all

haha! Direct your anger, love
Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love
Love your life, tackle the government
The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent
and my phrase went...

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Alright

Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind move
Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move
Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move
Rhythm makes your mind soothe, you know next stop is Jerusalem

Brand new mama, I understand
It's hard as hell being a young mother and
you need support your conscious told you not to abort
so to your child you're a hero of some sort
But, hey, the worst is over
You're ready to do this
I got faith and your baby renewed this
faith that everything will be fine
Now an adult, no more youth time
[Anytime you need help sister]
We'll be there just give us a ring
We will help you raise that king
Word to the mother cause it's a black thing
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage (4x)

Hey, let me guess, you're bored
Wanna get loose, attack the dance floor
Cool, I'll hold her, you have a good time
I'll keep your baby awake so baby sleeps after nine
This is reality, we need to turn our minds
Brothers talking revolution but leave their babies behind
Well sister, he's a sucker, just leave'em be
The revolution is now up to brothers like me
to step in cause your man stepped out
[The goal:] To raise the children, no doubt
so let's go to it and possibly
bring a generation of nat's in the future, see
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
But mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page
Mama's always on stage
Keep up your strength now cause we must grow somehow

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage (4x)
Can't be a revolution without women
Can't be a revolution without children

I improved throughout my life
all of this just to soothe a wife
brothers wear your black clothes
talk your 5% talk
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom
That's exactly how you must walk
Life's too short, your mission's too dire
Nurture another mind before yours expires
Pass it on, push it along
Like the brother said it in that one song
We respect you all the way
Late, late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama's got to stay strong, carry it on
Hey, mama's on stage

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage

Mr. Landlord step off my yard
Mr. Landlord I understand.
You have a right to check out yo land cuz it's "yo land".
My family told me you've been peekin in windos
Forcing themto be a little scared keeping curtains closed.
I protect my house but on tour
I try to find a home where my people are secure,
Your racist views are the views of your own
But please don't let it enter my family zone.
Just lettin' you know, I'm not a lil ole' colored boy
That steps off the curb when you walk your walk
So please don't mistake my kindness for blindness
I've known yo game since Columbus came
And if I woulda known how your neck was burnin' red.
In your complex I wouldn't of been caught dead,
So here's my message from me to you
My space is off limits until we move!
You understand that!

Mr. Landlord step of my yard
Mr. Landlord I have to question
Do you expect me to chill while ou're bumrushin
You thought we were the passive kind well yo're mistakin'
You outta give nuff respect like I'm Jamaican
The point is I feel you endanger my pride
Your racist comments, yhour racist approach I aint with...
It's bad enough there's kids in there that are strugglin
Finding themselves with out you bringin' racism!
Just to bring peace do I have to get a piece?
And in the break of dawn I guess I'll pray 2 the east
Cuz I'm not the one to get slapped on the cheek
Without my fist curling up to hit you back in yo teeth! Yo

(free yourself-free yourself-freedom)
Is what we want not a fight
Waving Confederate flags & gun toting' is your type
You ever heard of Ogune, well soon his spell
Will clear my brain while he clears where I dwell.
I call on the natural forces that be..
To help to free me, to free me!
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
A yaah ea yaah ea

Ｍｒ． Ｗｅｎｄａｌ -- 어레스티드 디벨로프먼트

Here have dollar, in fact
Now brotherman here have two

Two dollars is a snack for me
But it means a big deal to you
Be strong serve god only know that
If you do beautiful, heaven awaits
That's the poem I worte for the first time
I saw a man with no cloths, no money, no plate
Mr. Wendal, that's his name cause He's a know one
Never thought twice about spending on a old bum
until I had the chance to really get tp know one
Now that I know them to give him money isn't charity

He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some food
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges
Still most of yaw'll come out
Confused... go head Mr. Wendal
Mr. Wendal has freedom a free that you and I think is dumb


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2달러는 내게 군것질 거리 밖에 되질 않지
그러나 당신에겐 거액이라네
힘내서 봉사해요 신만이 그걸 알지
당신이 아름답게 해낸다면 하느님이 기다리네
이건 내가 난생 처음으로 써본 시라네
난 옷도 없고 돈도 없고 접시도 없는 한 남자를 보았네
미스터 웬달, 그게 그의 이름이었지
왜냐하면 그는 뭘 아는 남자였기에 늙은 부랑자에게
돈을 낭비하는 것에 대해 두번도 생각하지 않았어.
내가 진정으로 한 사람을 알게되는 기회를 맞을 때까지는
그들이 그에게 돈을 주는 것은 자선이 아니라는 걸 난 이제 알았어
그는 내게 어떤 지식을 주지, 난 그에게 약간의 음식을 사주고
그리고 흑인들이 모든 돈을 유명 대학에 가는데 쓰는 것에 대해
당신들 대부분은 혼란스럽게 생각하지
계속해요 미스터 웬달
미스터 웬달은 자유를 갖고 있네
당신과 내가 얼간이짓으로 생각하는 자유를.

Choice...
You know I'm saying...
Can this last with two beautiful women...
but at the same time, you know,
every man has this ideal image
of loving just one

I'm checking you out, you're all alone
No one is clocking you, but I'm scoping you
Staring right thru you, staring into you
Your beauty is endless and I'm hoping to explore

Brothers may say you're ugly but I disagree
But in a way that's fine with me
'Cause I want to travel with you
Travel in your mind 'cause you seem like a virgin

Free as the wind blows, tall as a tree grows
Wild like nature, yet calm as a field
Hair is natural, lips are natural
Face wins first place, you appeal to me, girl

Let me ask you for some time
For us to unwind together et cetera
I have nothing but pure intentions
Everything we'll be will be natural

Natural
Natural

I'd like to hold your waist as we chase
The wind down the shores of a southern ocean
Rub my fingers through your hair
Slowly rub and caress your forehead and bare

our problems, as we lay on the bed called Earth
Holding hands 'till we touch each and every finger
As the ocean water wets us both
In the center of the crossroads

Spiritual bonds are connected...what...an erection
Well...Let's drive to the city
And walk among the lights of the city streets
You're making me weak and it's scary

'Cause you've played no games
All you've been is very natural
That's why I'm scared to fall in love with you
'Cause girl you so natural

Natural
Natural
Oh yeah

I wanna be natural
I wanna be natural
I wanna be sleeping in you
I wanna be inside you

I wanna be sleeping deep in you
I wanna be sleeping deep in you
I wanna be in you
I wanna be in you

Natural
Natural

Love your lips
Love the way you do the things you do
Natural
Your lips

See I was resting at the park minding my own
business as I kick up the treble tone
on my radio tape player box, right
just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
investigation maybe she was demonstrating
But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
until a group of brothers started bugging out
drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route
Disrespecting my black queen
holding their crotches and being obscene
At first I ignored them cause see I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
and they see a young couple having a time that's good
and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do
and the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !]
I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit
and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it
Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be
but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me

[CHORUS:] I am everyday people (2x)

I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend
I said please cause I don't like killing Africans
but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
but I had to take the brother out for being rude
and like I said before I was mad by then
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African

[CHORUS]

This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight
To give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your
Umbrellas, you won't be needing those today
Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the
Rain there's no me and there's no you
I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop
Viva bum bum bum drip-drop
Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me
The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me
Most are frowning upon your arrival
But I need you for survival
And when you fall on my community
I run outside to properly
Greet you
Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you
Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow
Every drop hits me, fills me
With an unmeasurable amount of security
Knowing my God acknowledges me
As if each drop of rain is aimed toward me
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

I struttle strut thru the ghetto
The rain this time I feel is mental
The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual
Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people
Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones
Marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown
To the dust that gave them their colored skin
Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in
The rain many nights have witnessed her
Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister
And blessed that life to guaranteed existence
A conscious baby for a black resistance
I feel the rain enhances the revolution
And reminds us of a spiritual solution
And reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described
By the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless'
Which is so true
Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow
Love that power
Brothers and sisters -haha-
Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin
Now the ceremony begins
Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse
Run into your nearest rainbow
To grab, hold, to ride on
Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color oh yeah
Let it rain (repeats till end)
Haha
Yes
Oh yeah

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losing ground
Although I am Black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic

Brothers and sisters keep messing up
Why does it have to be so damn tough?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull

My grandma's passed, my brother's gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)

But Lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin' to each other every night and day
Although you're superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way

Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me

Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)

Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree, my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Eshe? She went down to Holly Springs.
Rasha Don and Baba? They went down to Peachtree.
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes.
A game of horseshoes!

Now I see the importance of history
Why my people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
My brothers on the corner playing ghetto games

I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
He said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
And you was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...

The Lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searching for
Are the answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Oh won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand you plan?
Take me home
Take me home
Home
Take me to another place
Take me home
Oh you know I need to go home, yeah

Headliner? I won the game of horseshoes.
Now you owe me a watermelon.
Let's go climb trees and skip over rocks,
do like they do below the border.
Hmm? Speech's hair?
No it look like the roots of the tree my ancestors were hung from.
But that's okay, get it, 'cuz he's down to earth.
Tennessee.
Tennessee, Whoo! Yeah
Tennessee.

Te-Tenness...

The great depression everyone is in depression
No one knows exactly what's their role
totally confused, depressed cuz of the news
Watch TV, more bad is what U see
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

United we stand United we fall
United we plan as a United front.

I walk the streets and try to pass energy
Put the gun down black man give me apound
Save those rounds for a real confrontation
undersstand who U R as a man
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

I need some time to ease my mind

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mamas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on.
Life is surrounded with so many insecurities
back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty.
I try to make my sanity, with the insane
God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money.
But, then again money can cause even more death.
when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all.
I dare say when price is right U can buy us all.
well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you.
I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move!
Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away from yo thang
All these things you put on me makes this brother sing...

Chorus:
I need some time to ease my mind.

Mind & soul is even more important then body
money can put my body in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & soul remotely dwells
within that fine spot between all messed up & hell.
And so I move on with confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist this wack society
Cuz if you don't resist, & I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it.
I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus
I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin'it.
Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me.
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace.
Until that day upon which my souls released!

Chorus

need some time need some time
when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real!

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mommas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.
And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.

That is why I tell you...

I need some time to ease my mind.

Here, have a dollar,
In fact, no brother-man here, have two
Two dollars means a snack for me
But it means a big deal to you

"Be strong, serve God only,
know that if you do, beautiful heaven awaits"
That's the poem I wrote for the first time
I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate

Mr. Wendal, that's his name
No one ever knew his name cause he's a no one
Never thought twice about spending on a ol' bum,
until I had the chance to really get to know one

Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity
He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges
Still most of y'all come out confused

Go ahead, Mr. Wendal
Go ahead, Mr. Wendal

Mr. Wendal has freedom
A free that you and I think is dumb
Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society
For Mr. Wendal's a bum

His only worries are sickness
And an occasional harassment by the police and their chase
Uncivilized we call him, but I just saw him
Eat off the food we waste

Civilization, are we really civilized, yes or no?
Who are we to judge?
When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved
Or killed over a racist grudge

Mr. Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways
But we don't hear him talk
Is it his fault when we've gone too far
And we got too far, 'cause on him we walk

Mr.Wendal, a man, a human in flesh,
But not by law
I feed you dignity to stand with pride
Realize that all in all you stand tall

Go ahead, Mr. Wendal
Mr. Wendal, yeah
Mr. Wendal, yeah
Mr. Wendal, go ahead

Mr.Wendal
Lord, Mr.Wendal

Here, have a dollar,
In fact, no brother-man here, have two
Two dollars means a snack for me
But it means a big deal to you

"Be strong, serve God only,
know that if you do, beautiful heaven awaits"
That's the poem I wrote for the first time
I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate

Mr. Wendal, that's his name
No one ever knew his name cause he's a no one
Never thought twice about spending on a ol' bum,
until I had the chance to really get to know one

Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity
He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges
Still most of y'all come out confused

Go ahead, Mr. Wendal
Go ahead, Mr. Wendal

Mr. Wendal has freedom
A free that you and I think is dumb
Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society
For Mr. Wendal's a bum

His only worries are sickness
And an occasional harassment by the police and their chase
Uncivilized we call him, but I just saw him
Eat off the food we waste

Civilization, are we really civilized, yes or no?
Who are we to judge?
When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved
Or killed over a racist grudge

Mr. Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways
But we don't hear him talk
Is it his fault when we've gone too far
And we got too far, 'cause on him we walk

Mr.Wendal, a man, a human in flesh,
But not by law
I feed you dignity to stand with pride
Realize that all in all you stand tall

Go ahead, Mr. Wendal
Mr. Wendal, yeah
Mr. Wendal, yeah
Mr. Wendal, go ahead

Mr.Wendal
Lord, Mr.Wendal

This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight
To give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your
Umbrellas, you won't be needing those today
Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the
Rain there's no me and there's no you
I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop
Viva bum bum bum drip-drop
Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me
The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me
Most are frowning upon your arrival
But I need you for survival
And when you fall on my community
I run outside to properly
Greet you
Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you
Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow
Every drop hits me, fills me
With an unmeasurable amount of security
Knowing my God acknowledges me
As if each drop of rain is aimed toward me
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

I struttle strut thru the ghetto
The rain this time I feel is mental
The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual
Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people
Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones
Marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown
To the dust that gave them their colored skin
Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in
The rain many nights have witnessed her
Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister
And blessed that life to guaranteed existence
A conscious baby for a black resistance
I feel the rain enhances the revolution
And reminds us of a spiritual solution
And reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described
By the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless'
Which is so true
Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow
Love that power
Brothers and sisters -haha-
Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin
Now the ceremony begins
Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse
Run into your nearest rainbow
To grab, hold, to ride on
Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color oh yeah
Let it rain (repeats till end)
Haha
Yes
Oh yeah

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losing ground
Although I am Black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic

Brothers and sisters keep messing up
Why does it have to be so damn tough?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull

My grandma's passed, my brother's gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)

But Lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin' to each other every night and day
Although you're superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way

Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me

Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)

Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree, my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Eshe? She went down to Holly Springs.
Rasha Don and Baba? They went down to Peachtree.
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes.
A game of horseshoes!

Now I see the importance of history
Why my people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
My brothers on the corner playing ghetto games

I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
He said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
And you was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...

The Lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searching for
Are the answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Oh won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand you plan?
Take me home
Take me home
Home
Take me to another place
Take me home
Oh you know I need to go home, yeah

Headliner? I won the game of horseshoes.
Now you owe me a watermelon.
Let's go climb trees and skip over rocks,
do like they do below the border.
Hmm? Speech's hair?
No it look like the roots of the tree my ancestors were hung from.
But that's okay, get it, 'cuz he's down to earth.
Tennessee.
Tennessee, Whoo! Yeah
Tennessee.

Te-Tenness...

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losing ground
Although I am Black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic

Brothers and sisters keep messing up
Why does it have to be so damn tough?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull

My grandma's passed, my brother's gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)

But Lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin' to each other every night and day
Although you're superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way

Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me

Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)

Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree, my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Eshe? She went down to Holly Springs.
Rasha Don and Baba? They went down to Peachtree.
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes.
A game of horseshoes!

Now I see the importance of history
Why my people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
My brothers on the corner playing ghetto games

I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
He said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
And you was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...

The Lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searching for
Are the answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Oh won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand you plan?
Take me home
Take me home
Home
Take me to another place
Take me home
Oh you know I need to go home, yeah

Headliner? I won the game of horseshoes.
Now you owe me a watermelon.
Let's go climb trees and skip over rocks,
do like they do below the border.
Hmm? Speech's hair?
No it look like the roots of the tree my ancestors were hung from.
But that's okay, get it, 'cuz he's down to earth.
Tennessee.
Tennessee, Whoo! Yeah
Tennessee.

Te-Tenness...

The great depression everyone is in depression
No one knows exactly what's their role
totally confused, depressed cuz of the news
Watch TV, more bad is what U see
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

United we stand United we fall
United we plan as a United front.

I walk the streets and try to pass energy
Put the gun down black man give me apound
Save those rounds for a real confrontation
undersstand who U R as a man
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

For once in my life
I have someone who needs me.
Someone I needed so long.

For once unafraid
I can go where life leads me.
Some how I know I'll be strong.

For once I can touch
What my heart used to dream of.
Long before I knew.
Aww, someone like you
Would make my dream come true.

For once in my life
I won't let sorrow hurt me.
Not like it's hurt me before.

For once I have something
I know won't desert me.
I'm not alone anymore.

For once I can say
This is mine, you can't take it.
As long as I know
I have love I can make it.

For once in my life
I have someone who needs me.

For once I can say
This is mine, you can't take it.
Long as I know
I have love I can make it.

For once I can feel
That somebody heard my plea.
For once in my life
I have someone who needs me.

(For once in my life)
(In my life)

Walking away was the best thing I could ever do
Once you make your decision, your decision is made
When we find ourselves up in arms more often than most
By then we know it's time to go
And walking away was the best thing that I could ever do
Chorus:
It's 11th hour (4x)
La la la la la (3x)
I'm so glad time and space was shared together
Songs were sung and laughter filled the air
But just as life is long, we must move on
And chart our own course to the rising sun
Chorus
Repeat 2nd verse

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
All your life
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take thesebroken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night

She screams out every night in a billion tears
In desperate fear that you're somewhere near
Faulting her action for all that's occurred
Wanting to tell all, never saying a word

Because she believes you're her hero
She wants to believe you still love her
But if you persist, she just might hurt you
So I suggest you refrain and don't ever touch me (again)

Don't ever touch me (again)

trying to regain a sense of reality
Only inches away from pure insanity
Releasing the anger, the hurt, heartache and rage
No more feeling like an animal stalked, trapped and caged

Because she believes she's a survivor
She knows that she's on the right track
But just you remember she's a beginner
So I suggest you refrain and don't ever touch me (again)

don't ever touch me (again)

haunted by the ghost of the thing left to past
In fear of the presence, the power it has
Realizing there's always a calm before the storm
But there's no one left to keep her from harm
Because she is unable to distinguish one from another
All she knows is she's not going to let it happen again
You should have left this one alone, but I bet you won't ever touch her (again)

Never knowing in the dark, in the light
When the world will change
Eliminating all the fear, all the sadness
In the falling rain
Touch my heart, touch my soul
Lead me into the light of the day
Time slips ever fast, instantly becoming the past

You've gotta find your way before it's too late

Endless sky, yours and mine
For to see all our dreams to come
With all you see, focus your energies on what is to be done
Live your life, love yourself
Know that everything has just begun
Time slips ever fast, instantly becoming past

<lyrics>Faced with a challenge of finding right and wrong
In a brand new world that recognizes none
It's hard for me to believe in all my travels
I'm the only one
The only one

Using food for thought and thought for food
All I have is my attitude, the hour glass
And my ever-changing mood

Faced with a challenge of doing all the novel talk
Wondering how to pay for the things my mouth has bought

Wanting to say the right things whenever I talk
I changed the way I stood and the way I walked

Lord help me find my way
So that I may go forward
And lead the way

Want to lose the negative but all I lose is time
There's a constant battle going on
A chained heart and mind who's winning

Faced with a challenge of knowing right from wrong
Having no preference or allegiance to either one

Before I am black
Before I am woman
Before I am short
Before I am young
Before I am African

I am Human

Before I am black
Before I am woman
Before I am short
Before I am young
Before I am African

I am Human

I know what you're doing yeah yeah
I know why you dialed my number
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you care
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you say you love me
I know what you're doing yeah
And I don't think it's fair
I know why you dialed my number
I know why you say you're mine
I know what you're doing,
And it's not, gonna work, this time
gonna work, this time
I know what you're doing yeah
I can never sing in that key
I know what you're doing yeah
And you're the one to blame
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you can't forgive me
I know why you're singing lost love
The lyrics haven't changed
1 can recognize the symptoms
You should know I've changed my mind
I know what you're doing
And it's not, gonna work this time
Hey hey hey, said it's not gonna work this time
not gonna work this time

I know what you're doing, baby
I know why you call my name
I know why you say you love me
but I can't say the same
i can recognize the symptoms
You should know I've changed my mind
I know what you're doing
And it's not, gonna work this time

I know what you're doing yeah yeah
I know why you dialed my number
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you care
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you say you love me
I know what you're doing yeah
And I don't think it's fair
I know why you dialed my number
I know why you say you're mine
I know what you're doing,
And it's not, gonna work, this time
gonna work, this time
I know what you're doing yeah
I can never sing in that key
I know what you're doing yeah
And you're the one to blame
I know what you're doing yeah
I know why you can't forgive me
I know why you're singing lost love
The lyrics haven't changed
1 can recognize the symptoms
You should know I've changed my mind
I know what you're doing
And it's not, gonna work this time
Hey hey hey, said it's not gonna work this time
not gonna work this time

I know what you're doing, baby
I know why you call my name
I know why you say you love me
but I can't say the same
i can recognize the symptoms
You should know I've changed my mind
I know what you're doing
And it's not, gonna work this time

Please tell me what is going on
What have I done to you
To make you feel so blue?

I know something has gone wrong
I can see it in your eyes
There is no need to lie

If I am truly your friend
Maybe sometimes we don't agree
But you can come to me

You know I'm here until the end
And if I can ease the pain
I'll make you see a brighter day

Either now or later

I don't want to pressure you
I know you need some time
To search and try to find

Put all your thoughts into view
And you will soon believe
Anything you can achieve

I hate to see you feel this way
'cause all your misery
Is killing me, baby

Things will change, if not today
Look to the heavens up above
And there is where you'll find your love

Everything's so crystal clear now
All I needed was time
Everything's so crystal clear now
I've cleaned my mind

Now the sky has opened
There are no limits to this
Let me feel the passion
That I know exists when you're with me
'cause I can feel it when you look at me

And baby, that's about the time
Your lips touch mine
Feels so good when we intertwine
Like the motion of the ocean
The feeling's like no other

Passion is with me

Touch my heart, touch my soul
Lead me into the light of a new day
Touch my heart, touch my soul
Lift me up into the wonder of ecstasy

I am here to explore
Do as it pleases us
And there will be no resistance
So come on in and let nature take its course
This is what we've been waiting for
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The reality of it all is that reality is
What it is or what we think it is
Why are things the way they are?
Who said that the sky was in fact the sky
And not the ground that we should walk upon?
Makes you wonder, hmm?

Why is green green?
What if it's really blue?
And is what we think we think really true?
It is said that "I think, therefore I am"
Are we really thinking?

There's something going on
And I don't know what it is
There's a change taking place in my mind
And I don't know how I lived
Before the doors were opened
To the house of wisdom

What do you know about the chosen man?
And where in fact is the promised land?
It is said that "I think, therefore I am"
Are we really thinking?

If we are here, then where is there?
And if in fact we're here, then why aren't we there?
It is said "I think, therefore I am"
Are we really thinking?

The reality of it all is that reality is
What it is or what we think it is
Why are things the way they are?
Who has taught us all that we know now?
And is it for real?
Makes you wonder
Makes me wonder
Makes us wonder
Yeah...

Chorus:
Stop to think before you blow it
'Cause if you think you don't it will lead
You down the path to the end of your life

So - I finally got you hooked
Now you've become a crook
And your life belongs to me

Yo - you'll do anything to get me
How much you want to bet me
'Cause I'm pure ecstacy

You started spending up your money
Now you're cold and hungry
'Cause you have no place to live

Yep - life is getting kinda harder
Out there beggin' for a dollar
But nobody will give

Chorus

See - I told you life would get much harder
You thought you were smarter
But I'm always in control

Oh yes - so many out there love me
They can't get enough of me
Just one hit and then they're sold

They told you not to try me
Said you would never be free
There'd be something missing

Now you're hanging on the corner
Beggin' for a dollar
'Cause you refused to listen

[Chorus:]
Don't go near the water if you don't like to swim
'Cause somebody just might try and push you in
Well now, how many times have I told you
Not to get your feet wet
If you don't like the water on you
My baby baby baby get back

[Chorus:]
See just because it may look good
It don't mean you always have to indulge
'Cause that's when it happens
And you never know you might fall overboard

[Chorus:]

I hope you're listening to what you hear
'Cause I would never tell you no wrong
But you don't have to believe me
'Cause after all it's only a song

Yes, indedy sho-nuff needy
I got the feeling to stretch on out
my children are cryin' my elders are dying.
& me I'm relying on a check for rent
if I gotta be broke then ain't no joke
I'm moving to the country and buying some land
And I'll be alright if I can rest at night
knowing my children got land to stand on.
Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres
money spent in rent ain't earning me cent.
Ain't gettin no caddy, no Benz, no jeep.
until I got some $ for some land to keep
no more children crying instead they'll be running
running free and wild in the heat of the sun.
'cause once I'm gone I wanna feel strong
that my children will go on, family land and all sayin'

I got some land to stand on no more ache'n 4 acres
no beggin for leftovers got some space of my own
I got grounds to raise on no more ache'n 4 acres
no more giving to takers got some land to leave on!

No more elders passin' without my kids askin'
papa who's tombstones are those in the yard
Family gotta stay close all of us gotta stay close
Ache'n 4 acres 4 buildin' a nation.
Ain't about depending on government spendin'
especially when the government's got a plan of their own
separate from me-separate from U
separate from most-in sync with a few.
Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres
my grandpappa had em all but he lost em & he sold em
the cities were a growin' and grandpa's getting older
little did he know that his land was valuable
Got land to stand on then U can stand up!
stand up for your rights as a woman, as a man
man O' man my choices expand
Ain't got me no money but I got me some land

Universal as I stroll
down the street
Africas's a bolling over
flowing inside of me
I used to sport
a curl made by Jerry
A Jerry curl
but as time passed
it didn't last
after my curl
I never combed my doo
I used to sport a cap
but the naps kept shining through
Shining
My sista got a brand new perm
my boys says she looks
pretty fine body real firm
folds at her job loves
her new touch up
I can tell her white boss
gets a kick when
she's all done up
My sista loves her blackness
but the US says
that her perm
is her attractiveness
But Africa keeps coming stronger
we found out
it ain't a perm
it's a temporary
Don't heve sash to
go to the music school
no money for the guitar
or the violin or the tuba
my moms had a record player
and the 45's
I put the needle on the record
and I kicked it crazy live
scratching it up
catching the breaks
spirits within me
had me do what it takes
Grammy's I win & one again
like my Egyptian kin
it's Africa within makin'
something outta nothing
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free

What's that land across
those waters
what's that spirit makin'
love to my daughter
telling her not to eat
he mama's ham hocks
allowing her the choice
to twist her hair & make it lock
yo I don't like it
I just don't like it
Papa may say buy
my soul is a boilin'
and sooner or later
Africa's glory and toil
will teach an old dog new tricks
Why and the world
can't everybody
recognize that
Africa's in everybody
we all ask why can't
we be sista's and brothers
but first we gotta accept
who is our mother
Rather embracer of the jungle
or ghetto melanin dwells
but could stop growth
and developments
Arrested for nothing
Gumbo's within' soulful
H20 men be droppin'
Happenin's like
Homosapians Hustlins
within' to exist as afro USA men
residing in Fulani
was once Christian
Start fishin' like FOS
and found origin
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free

I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
Thrusted in a world
that I don't know
from my mamas lips
between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands
because she understands
it's that bond that keeps
the movement movin on
Life is surrounded
with so many insecurities
back stabbin is like
breathing when in poverty
I try to make my sanity
with the insane
God is secondary to most
when they scrap for money
But, then again money
can cause even more death
when a African becomes
a nigger step n fetch n all
I dare say when price is
right U can buy us all
well not me cuz I don't
truly give a care about you
I'll move in poverty
in wealth but
I'll surely move
Ain't syncopated
with your beats
or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away
from yo thang
All these things you put on
me makes this brother sing
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
Mind & soul is even more
important then body
money can put my body
in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & soul
remotely dwells
within that fine spot
between all messed up & hell
And so I move on with
confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist
this wack society
Cuz if you don't resist &
I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub conscious
into accepting it
I ain't acceptin it
I keep my focus
I keep my focus
I ain't acceptin'it
Give me a face pencil
to draw a smile on me
Answer my prayer to give
my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer
to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace
Until that day upon
which my souls released
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
need some time need some time
when the sista's say it
then you know
it's gotta be real

Thrusted in a world
that I don't know
from my mommas lips
between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands
because she understands
It's that bond that will
keep the movement movin on
It's that bond that will
keep the movement movin on
And so I GOTTA BE
READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish
my breath of life for struggle
That is why I tell you
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind
I need some time
to ease my mind

Taking a bath within the sun rays
Letting the aura of life soak me
living in the country chickens, cows, all around me
I'me bored I'll take a drive into the city limits
yo life is just a secret recipe & I'm all up in it.
Being the grand papa that I am one can forget it
today I figure I deserve to swerve
from my normal nerdy status that engulfs my time & that is
just what I need so here it goes I suppose that it's on
shake out my dreads with Aloe
Vera it's rare a brother like me will agree
with Taree, Kwesi, and go party with Baba
But Yo I gotta be hip & dip within the Fountain of youth!
the fountain of youth
Once I learned to dip and got drenched I got drenched
without the fear of drowning my ears can hear the sound and...
my eyes are wide open O P E N
and consciously aware of my surroundings.
Wally I'm getting energy -golly gee
as if I'm solar powered
it seems like every now & then
I skim on the edge of nuttiness
letting the wind push and shove in my dreads as if it's an argument
But really they're just snuggling for affection
hair needs loving too,
speaking of love the western civilization is on another tip
to tell you the truth they need to dip into the fountain of youth!
the fontain of youth
Bopping my head is more that bopping it's a spiritual thing
rhythms and lines space and time
relative? yes I pump my sound loud so my people can hear it
I hope the music soothes our spirits
cuz it soothes me
my foundation is strong but I allow some things to move me
and that is energy from the fountain of youth.

Another morning kneelin' at my altar
the day is faced with a bunch of grace
on my case in this worldly rat race
to keep the pace I depend on ancestors and God
and by the way my real name is Todd.
That's how my dead ancestors address me
that is those that knew me as that.
My African name hasn't been revealed yet.
My knees don't mind the bendin'
as long as the bending keeps me from bending
or compromising my views and pride
the inside world gets me prepared for the outside
I can't wake up on the wrong side of the bed
as long as my soul has been fine tuned and lubed and
altars are cool for my inner urge to resume
to the universe SMPTE tone or metronome.
Kneelin at my altar (x3)
in the morning time I got to kneel at my altar
K N E E L I N at my altar
Simply put one is naive if they believe
that this system does not deceive its
populous dropping us lies in a sack like a stork
& there's stops that drop from Cali to NY.
Images are burnt into our brain cells to the extent
there's still fumes in a no smoking section of a room
forces are tugging at you from both sides
to be centered I pray and pour libation
Oh from there it's diggity diggity done
I've rinsed my senses & armor alled my armor
instead of being grouchy I'm a natural charmer
chilin' with our friends to relatively no end
& oh my Lord I'm feelin' exuberated
cool vibes & disciplined enough to go outside
and don't you know it's gotta be like that, feeling dope

Mr. Landlord step off my yard
Mr. Landlord I understand.
You have a right to check out yo land cuz it's "yo land".
My family told me you've been peekin in windos
Forcing themto be a little scared keeping curtains closed.
I protect my house but on tour
I try to find a home where my people are secure,
Your racist views are the views of your own
But please don't let it enter my family zone.
Just lettin' you know, I'm not a lil ole' colored boy
That steps off the curb when you walk your walk
So please don't mistake my kindness for blindness
I've known yo game since Columbus came
And if I woulda known how your neck was burnin' red.
In your complex I wouldn't of been caught dead,
So here's my message from me to you
My space is off limits until we move!
You understand that!

Mr. Landlord step of my yard
Mr. Landlord I have to question
Do you expect me to chill while ou're bumrushin
You thought we were the passive kind well yo're mistakin'
You outta give nuff respect like I'm Jamaican
The point is I feel you endanger my pride
Your racist comments, yhour racist approach I aint with...
It's bad enough there's kids in there that are strugglin
Finding themselves with out you bringin' racism!
Just to bring peace do I have to get a piece?
And in the break of dawn I guess I'll pray 2 the east
Cuz I'm not the one to get slapped on the cheek
Without my fist curling up to hit you back in yo teeth! Yo

(free yourself-free yourself-freedom)
Is what we want not a fight
Waving Confederate flags & gun toting' is your type
You ever heard of Ogune, well soon his spell
Will clear my brain while he clears where I dwell.
I call on the natural forces that be..
To help to free me, to free me!
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
A yaah ea yaah ea

Living
I've got to do what I got to do
I know that time passes by
But I keep on livin' for the love of something better
Praisin'
I've got to feel the pleasure, yeah
'Cause I know why I'm in this world right now
I got to praise Him all in the open
I know that time passes through
But ain't one day I ain't gone be praisin

I, I keep on praisin' and standing
I know that God has my life within his palms
And his arms wide open
I, I see that thangs ain't gonna be easy ya'll
So I need that fundamental base now
I see the sand is running out
Cause I know U are pure truth
I want to give my all for U

Got me praisin' U
Got me buggin' off of U
Got me moving mountains
Movin' negative vibes from around me
Got me praisin U
Got me lovin' U
Got me climbing mountains
Movin' mountains, pouring libation

My skin could never no curse, no it can't
I wear it like a prom tuxedo
I wear my hair as if its the sun and...
each and every dread is a powerful light ray
never wanted things to be in reverse cuz
GOD makes waves wise travellers so
my views of this world are ever growing
thus ever growing is the way one must view me
A soul of conviction unjustly convicted
happy tv commercials and bi-racial shows
the smell of reality still burns my nose
not content until it smells like a rose
whether it's in syle to keep the fight
I tread these waters and make my waves yes I do
And I will fight until my dying day
And even after that my ghost resides with pride
Forward ever backward never
day by day these trials I trod
Always triumphant never fail
We've come too far to turn back now
I won't turn back I move
My blood is thicker than the waters of any flood
Here I am facing the almighty herself
If she approves then I am saved
Clear of trouble is the path I pave
for generations to walk and run
Whether it's in style to keep the fight
I tread these waters and make waves GOD knows
and I will fight until my dying day
and even after that my ghost resides with pride

Just a shell until U decide to rebel (4x)
Just a shell, just a shell, just a shell until u decide to rebel
whether you're white or black your soul does not dwell
inside your shell until you decide to rebel
worldly worldy people people allow your innersides
to intervene and circulate
open your eyes and open your ears
wouldn't it be great.
So what am I doin? Am I really rebellin? or am I just dwelling
in the sin
in the sin
in the sin?
I've made up my mind
I've seen the design of individualism
and I don't want to be in it
The me generations a dis-ease!

The great depression everyone is in depression
No one knows exactly what's their role
totally confused, depressed cuz of the news
Watch TV, more bad is what U see
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

United we stand United we fall
United we plan as a United front.

I walk the streets and try to pass energy
Put the gun down black man give me apound
Save those rounds for a real confrontation
undersstand who U R as a man
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!

United minds of America
make your vocal chords reach the clouds and
touch the crowd of folks that overstand there's no jokes
we must network together as one &
tell the oppressor we'll take no less than
total justice a social setting yo I'm bettin'
we can stop new world order
start servin liberty may I take your order
free political prisoners without no question
let's give props where due
If it was you wouldn't you want to know
that someone cares for what you do so let's show
political prisoners, homeless humans, organizations
various movements
that the people in America have some discipline
to act on their belief therefore stress activism
although you are only one person
if for truth you still thirst well thirst then
make the difference by joining
some organization or some movement
let me explain the powers that be
are families of power with old money
Unfortunately on their souls hangs a sold sign
and in righteous sight they are so blind!
Infatuated with their power and their greed
they don't see that GOD is the answer
Greed has planted a seed within the souls of the 13 families
drug dealers and hustlers
All my brothers and sisters that are hustlers
selling crack cocaine to your followers
to me you're a sell out an uncle Tom
in the tom tom club droppin bombs
Causing confusion shootin and killin'
you're playin the role putting fear in populations
making us allow the system to "protect" us
allowing the chicken snake to protect the chickens
police brutality claiming victims
the powers that be may come with their solutions
but trust me their trees bear No fruits no
I guess that's why I get spiritual
spirituality supports reality no not catholic no not Baptist
no not passive
very active!

United minds of the Americas
minds of Africa and the Caribbean
and the Europeans and the Asians and Australians
it's not just race we're all in this together!
Lets play a game of jeopardy what's the question?
Social Medicines the answer
I try to eat healthy to avoid the cancer
one ounce of prevention beats 100 pounds of cure
pure ways of living is not hippish
it's not white not black it's just conscious
conscious of your health, conscious of your self
instead of being so damn conscious of your wealth
(or lack of so...)
DO you know about the Panthers,
the MOVE organization, Kwame
Nkrumah, the Zulu nation or just Nikes and Pumas
or your fascination with the so-called B-Boy fashion nation.
If you can please recycle
even the people in the hood please recycle
I know it wasn't our fault that they went psycho
they meaning industry exec's who flex for profit!
Traditional societies and islanders
please retain your culture and don't give up!
Don't you understand we must understand this
if we want to live in bliss

Grab the hook, grab the line
Grab the bait, grab the box and wait
Tackle and shackle the topic the faculty has chosen
Chosen by many, chosen by plenty, chosen by any
man or woman who understand
the topic that's known and
[Go by the dock] flock and clock the topic
as I drop my hook and get a bite
The reason I'm fishin' 4 a new religion
is my church makes me fall asleep
They're praising a God that watches you weep
and doesn't want you to do a damn thing about it
When they want change the preacher says "shout it"
Does shouting bring about change ? I doubt it
All shouting does is make you lose your voice
So on the dock I sit in silence
staring at a sea that's full of violence
Scared to put my line in that water
coz it seems like there's no religion in there
Naively so I give it another go
Sitting in church hearing legitimate woes
Pastor tells the lady it'll be alright
Just pray so you can see the pearly gates so white
The lady prays and prays and prays and prays
and prays and prays and prays and prays...it's everlasting
"There's nothing wrong with praying ?" It's what she's asking
She's asking the Lord to let her cope
so one day she can see the golden ropes
What you pray for God will give
to be able to cope in this world we live
The word "cope" and the word "change"
is directly opposite, not the same
She should have been praying to change her woes
but pastor said "Pray to cope with those"
The government is happy with most baptist churches
coz they don't do a damn thing to try to nurture
brothers and sisters on a revolution
Baptist teaches dying is the only solution
Passiveness causes others to pass us by
I throw my line till I've made my decision
until then, I'm still fishin' 4 religion

Fishin' 4 religion (11x)
Fish
[Believe !]
[Everybody in the house tonight...C'mon let me hear you say]
[Fishin' !]

Lately I've been in a life like limbo
Looking out of a smudged up window
We're not sure where our lives are going
Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in
Don't know where our next dollar's coming from
Living the life of a poor musician
Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5
Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive
If it wasn't for the rhythm
I think we would have given up by now
This system has gotten the best of me
Now I pray for God to invest in me
My dignity, invest his glory
Give me the strength so I can finnish the story
Keep on searching for the right way to go out
coz going out is what it's all about
huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active
Can't go with what looks attractive
Gotta learn all I can while I'm able
Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables
When we get our chance
to make a good living of the music we program
We don't sell out just to be sold out
Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ?
Coz if they take away our contract
we still got talent and we still got contacts
Coz we're worked real hard to get this far
We're catching the bus before we bought the car
Ya see !

*[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever] (2x)

Got to get political
Political I gotta get
Grown but can't hold my own
So this government needs to be overthrown
Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs
need to learn how to correctly shoot'em
Save those rounds for a revolution
Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system
But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz
Coz ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers
so you you want out of the ghetto
First the political prisoners must be let go
And you must let go of your power master
You'll never get out without much discipline
Raise your fist but also raise your children
So when you die the movement moves on
Coz with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all
haha! Direct your anger, love
Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love
Love your life, tackle the government
The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent
and my phrase went...

*Repeat (2x)

Alright !

Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind
Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move
Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move
Rhythm makes your mind soothe, next stop is Jerusalem

Lately I've been in a life like limbo
Looking out of a smudged up window
We're not sure where our lives are going
Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in
Don't know where our next dollar's coming from
Living the life of a poor musician
Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5
Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive
If it wasn't for the rhythm
I think we would have given up by now
This system has gotten the best of me
Now I pray for God to invest in me
My dignity, invest his glory
Give me the strength so I can finish the story
Keep on searching for the right way to go out
coz going out is what it's all about
huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active
Can't go with what looks attractive
Gotta learn all I can while I'm able
Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables
When we get our chance
to make a good living of the music we program
We won't sell out just to be sold out
Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ?
Coz if they take away our contract
we still got talent and we still got contacts
Coz we're worked real hard to get this far
We're catching the bus before we bought the car
Ya see !
[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever]
Got to get political
Political I gotta get
Grown but can't hold my own
So this government needs to be overthrown
Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs
need to learn how to correctly shoot'em
Save those rounds for a revolution
Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system
But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz
Coz ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers
so you you want out of the ghetto
First the political prisoners must be let go
And you must let go of your power master
You'll never get out without much discipline
Raise your fist but also raise your children
So when you die the movement moves on
Coz with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all
haha! Direct your anger, love
Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love
Love your life, tackle the government
The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent
and my phrase went...
Alright !
Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind
Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move
Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move
Rhythm makes your mind soothe, next stop is Jerusalem

Lately I've been in a life like limbo
Looking out of a smudged up window
We're not sure where our lives are going
Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in

Don't know where our next dollar's coming from
Living the life of a poor musician
Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5
Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive

If it wasn't for the rhythm
I think we would have given up by now
This system has gotten the best of me
Now I pray for God to invest in me

My dignity, invest his glory
Give me the strength so I can finish the story
Keep on searching for the right way to go out
'Cause going out is what it's all about

huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active
Can't go with what looks attractive
Gotta learn all I can while I'm able
Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables

When we get our chance
To make a good living of the music we program
We don't sell out just to be sold out
Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about?

'Cause if they take away our contract
We still got talent and we still got contacts
'Cuase we're worked real hard to get this far
We're catching the bus before we bought the car
Ya see&nbsp;!

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Got to get political
Political I gotta get
Grown but can't hold my own
So this government needs to be overthrown

Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs
need to learn how to correctly shoot'em
Save those rounds for a revolution
Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system

But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz
'Cause ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers

So you you want out of the ghetto
First the political prisoners must be let go
And you must let go of your power master

You'll never get out without much discipline
Raise your fist but also raise your children
So when you die the movement moves on
'Cause with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all

haha! Direct your anger, love
Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love
Love your life, tackle the government
The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent
and my phrase went...

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Alright

Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind move
Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move
Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move
Rhythm makes your mind soothe, you know next stop is Jerusalem

Brand new mama, I understand
It's hard as hell being a young mother and
you need support your conscious told you not to abort
so to your child you're a hero of some sort
But, hey, the worst is over
You're ready to do this
I got faith and your baby renewed this
faith that everything will be fine
Now an adult, no more youth time
[Anytime you need help sister]
We'll be there just give us a ring
We will help you raise that king
Word to the mother cause it's a black thing
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page

Mama's always on stage (4x)

Hey, let me guess, you're bored
Wanna get loose, attack the dance floor
Cool, I'll hold her, you have a good time
I'll keep your baby awake so baby sleeps after nine
This is reality, we need to turn our minds
Brothers talking revolution but leave their babies behind
Well sister, he's a sucker, just leave'em be
The revolution is now up to brothers like me
to step in cause your man stepped out
[The goal:] To raise the children, no doubt
so let's go to it and possibly
bring a generation of nat's in the future, see
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
But mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page
Mama's always on stage
Keep up your strength now cause we must grow somehow

Mama's always on stage (4x)
Can't be a revolution without women
Can't be a revolution without children

I improved throughout my life
all of this just to soothe a wife
brothers wear your black clothes
talk your 5% talk
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom
That's exactly how you must walk
Life's too short, your mission's too dire
Nurture another mind before yours expires
Pass it on, push it along
Like the brother said it in that one song
We respect you all the way
Late, late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama's got to stay strong, carry it on
Hey, mama's on stage

Mama's always on stage