J Dilla - OR HOPE OR VISION OR LOVE lyrics

Rage and love hold hands where I'm from Slow dance where I'm from Flow advanced in the summer time Crushing hard in their pre-adolescence Rage ran out of essence And then ran out of breath and then Love was like, "You can have some of mine." On the double time Releasing one another from a troubled mind It's no wonder why this co-existence has survived Their adoration for each other seems so foreign to the onlooker They don't understand the depth they've been through All the circumstances that they had to sift through A gift, true, who would've thought they'd ever go together You would think these two would be at each other's throats forever But no matter what transpired Couldn't even try to hide The connection inside Underneath the pride and surprise Rage gave love a little fire Empowered now and nothing was the same Love gave rage some direction Rage had purpose No longer being reckless from all of the pain And the thing was the balance in their affections They protected each other from the world's deception As they grew together so did mutual trust They exchanged vows and told each other, "The future is us." Rage began to understand itself differently A protector from the vestiges of history Love saw itself changing too It saw itself as root more abstruse than a musical Rubik's Cube The two done fooled around and started revolutions So powerful a pair also a heavy nuisance To the ones who wanted Rage to k** itself off And to the ones who wanted Love to wander in the dark Love had to have Rage if their eyes were open And Rage had to have Love to keep from dying early This the same relationship that caused a savior to flip tables Or a slave to take a saber to the maker of his labor Or a mother to keep her baby from seeing this earth Infanticidal the fight is deeper than flesh and nerve Rage and Love taught their children to do crazy things But that's based all on perspective, could be braver things Always deeper than the physical so we pray for things Dragons try to tear us apart, but we slay them things What happens when your blood is embedded With shredded papers And your DNA has genes that tell you not to trust your neighbors But your favorite waiter Brought you over chocolate party favors And that tingle by your navel You can't make it go away You keep on living and you keep on loving That's what our parents taught us In them late night discussions When they told us about their love story And unexpected partnership had people worried When they used to hold hands and slow dance And romance in the summer time There was never only one design Heart too big to be defeated by a foe Now you know