[Intro]
You have to be, a light to yourself
Not the light of a professor
Or a man of history, psychologist
Or a
Or the light of Jesus
Or the light of the Buddha or
You have to be a light to yourself
In a land that's so utterly become dark
[Hook]
Treasured at the crossroads
Piercings of fierce distinctions
Grip life by every breath
And each sigh inspired this inkling
I left to lamp on corners of darkness
In minds you thinking
Cuz a glimmer left bereft
Becomes slaughter when time is shrinking
Fallin' with compa**ion and zest
Solemnly sinking
In the arms of these old charms of this will
While driving and drinking
A fantasy of cubans that's lit
Liftin' the inkpen of Assata
Scribe a drama that detonates in your precinct
[Verse 1]
This is the story of a man who cried devotion
The pa**ion that he burn with
Eternally Hell's oceans
Bearin' the pressure non-spoken
But it crackle concrete
Ground zero
The heroes of legend arrive where dawns meet
For all your yesterday
Let us live today in all its memory
A message in a bottle
Gettin' coddled so tenderly
That's often
The way that scar tissue soften
Native sun
Come root the raisin in coffins
Where none before him trodden
For some
A soft baby tend to harden
To slave for you
No escape from you
And it's love that taunt him
Insatiable energy cause seasons into Autumn
Then turnin' stars to humans
Who dream of super stardom
It's lawless with the loosey leaf
Exposin' every pardon
Hard to breathe up in this room
I got it turned into a garden for divine exchange
The top of triple decker's the mountain range
Capped with ounces of blow
I'm leakin' fountains of novacaine
To the same
From the slang change
No counter tops to bang
No beats but raw
Cross street's schools to the package store
What are these dreams for?
Was it arrogance? To you they mean more?
Your life is a stage
And that's the reason you love the scene more
While I posture right by the bar
Keep tabs on all imposters
I'm free to spill the vapor from grey skies in a saucer
Better look up cuz the cost of
Looking down is so serious
In the midst of a leap of faith
Everyone is curious
(Or they furious)
To see the glory of a man who cried devotion
The pa**ion that he burn with
Infirmaries to the frozen
Bear the pressure non-spoken
But rather herkimer diamonds
Thoughts of revolution bring metaphysical violence
Empathy, compa**ion and cess increase the silence
To reveal the only thing that connects us
In this asylum
That's common, now I love her
She leavin' Boston
So native sun
Root a raisin in coffins where none before him trodden
[Hook]
[Outro]
Styles tend to
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Not only separate man
You know because they have their own doctrines
And then the doctrines became the gospel truth
You know
That you cannot change you know?
And
But if you do not have style
If you just say
"Well here, here I am you know
As a human being, how can I express myself
Totally and completely?"