9th Wonder - PRZM DSTRCT lyrics

[Verse 1:] It's the prism district No time to get this twisted How long have we existed The pain that we resisted Survive with mad persistence I can't exact the distance Of what we've traveled so far, makin a move with no car Had a talk with Jupiter so we could get to know Mars I'm talkin the kids with no moms, how they get stuck with that life? See we be ninjas at night, but we special with light We took the lasers and separated the phases Until we flipped the script, then we called it polarization - Hold up so you could take in, the sound that we be makin' We had some tragic tremors, they left my city shakin' Trials and tribulations, tempests and hurricanes Happiness and elation, I think the coin's the same I think it's all connected, the clarity, the dust For us to suffer the pain apparently we must No-one in life to play the "US" part Making blood diamonds with crushed hearts We're making it thus far... We making it thus far Yo [Verse 2:] This district of prisms with the cracks all in it Rough around the edges like a hacksaw finish You either build or destroy where you live at? Don't matter what you take - it matter what you give back And my city's been takin blows like a wrestler And we've been giving back loads but no one mentions us Attention Deficit, my city learned the lesson quick Paid attention to ourselves that's where we're investing it Relentless, endless, this prism is stupendous Diamond with the rhyming so human hand could rend this A sentence is what they send us when success is in sight No visitation for my sentence and my sentence is life Dedicated to medicating human souls And without my district, my purpose would be unknown See my spirit is sewn into this prism, shawshaking these prisons My goal is not sit on the throne of lyricism Capture one ray of light, and I make it many You ain't have to leave your name I ain't takin any But if you ever feel your spirit is being resisted Or that you'll go ballistic Visit the Prism District