Saul Williams - Coded Language lyrics

Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum-woven past. Whereas, the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the everchanging distance between rock and stardom. Whereas, the velocity of spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history, yet at a different moment in time's continuum, has allowed history to catch up with the present. We do hereby declare reality unkept by the changing standards of dialogue. Statements such as "Keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events, will henceforth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is. Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors. Motherf**ers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize. We have found evidence that hip hop's standard 85 rpm when increased by a number at least half the rate of its standard or decreased to 3/4 of its speed, may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness. Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. Equate rhyme with reason, sun with season. Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods. Thus, symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect. Reject mediocrity. Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand. The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears. Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness. The role of darkness is not to be seen as or equated with ignorance but with the unknown and the mysteries of the unseen. Thus, in the name of: ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AKHENATON, HATSHEPSUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN, LENNON, KAHLO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LORDE, WHITMAN, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GANDHI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA, MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKERSON, RIPERTON, MARY, ISIS, TERESA, HANSBERRY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI, LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERON, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY, SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURNED, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED. We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy. We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a handful of minerals. Thus, realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussive factor of forever. If you must count to keep the beat then count. Find your mantra and awaken your subconscious. Carve your circles counterclockwise. Use your cipher to decipher coded language, manmade laws. Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees. Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today. We are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love. We enlist every instrument: acoustic, electronic. Every so-called gender, race, s**ual preference. Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire f**ing world. Any utterance un-aimed, will be disclaimed, will be maimed - two rappers slain Any utterance un-aimed, will be disclaimed, will be maimed - two rappers slain