Talib Kweli - Time Zone lyrics

[Apani] Time zone travellin, unravelin The secrets of mysteries that follow humans for centuries Theories appear crisp and clear to me as air Magically through meditative focus, mechanically I'm there The dreams stay in connection, then awake To the main theme in a carefully constructed scene Which began with a bright beam of light Become a satellite seen as a flash in the sky Through the eyes of a writer, who shall remain anonymous Lust for higher learnin, surgin, burnin, yearnin Inspired by spirits of great grand descendants Get rich off the dark skin signin over freedom on documents Marked with X's, illiterate, stiffed up languages Slave masters metaphorically ripped out they larynxes Yet they beat drums and sang songs Now I keep it movin along in the same form and context Since the torch has been cast to the next generation My main motivation is to be a cipher nation 360 degrees all around, above, and below Is the planet where I hold jurisdiction, yo Kweli I know you fed with this whole situation I know you reflect on revolution Can only be one conclusion, one action conduces Changes - some civilizations have been in war for scores Blood shed on history pages and in the end What side wins? Old has been replaced by the new When all is said and done, stand out amongst the few As examples of what one can do It's a true story, cried at the end when Denzel died in Glory Knock on wood when I'm gon' be, launch me into the galaxy I'll be a solitary star in the constellation Transferrin information into the minds of young prodigies lookin up Wishin all my energy until the day they become Entities parallel to me, the universe's Cycle of Destiny What exists is more than we see, more than we see... Forget the years you been alive, we livin in the same age Tell me where your mind is at, we livin in the same age Tell me what's on your mind, we livin in the same age [x3] [Kweli, vaguely] yo, yo, outrageous, courageous, advantageous.. [Kweli] Once again on mission, driven by ill thoughts that we envision Got a lotta ambition, now we got a pot to piss in Cats seem to be quick to whip they sh** out, and they missin While I aim straight, it's a new era, you feel the transition? Man listen, you know the libras, how they just balance it out Through the ages, droppin wisdom like sages While the whole world go through phases Peep how the rhyme is vintage like a wine Gets better with age and time n***as think they free - who need to change When you can enslave the mind? like true conquerors They call the explorers brave Say they collectin when I say they rob graves It's complex, you know what, I be ? Apani Do this ego trippin, like De La, on Nikki Giovanni So I try to put that behind me but it got me In an ill position like the Kama Sutra The past kicks my a** back to the future, it reminds me Not the losers, but the winners tell the story Ignore the truth, take out the gory details and get the glory My grandfather died when I was a shorty He fought for our country It couldn't be his cause to this day, they still don't want me My great grandmother put arsenic in the master's tea After she came from hearin a speech by Marcus Garvey Not separate or equal, so f** Ferguson and Plessy Folks of slaves, bringin it like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey The Age of the Industry, the plantation system was dead Let em work, they can make enough to eat And keep a roof over they head You still a mothaf**in slave ! Doesn't matter if you near-white or little light Or blacker than a thousand midnights We right in the new age with new slaves, we need to bless the stage Cause the audience' brains affected by devils like cage Call us brave, but the system got our peoples actin depraved Forget the years you been alive, we livin in the same age Yo tell me where ya mind is at, we livin in the same age Take that wit'chu to your grave, grow up before you show up [x3] [Apani] Time is relative, we livin in the same age Open up your third eye, we livin in the same age