1. |
Intro: Sniper
02:34
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-- Lyrics --
Yeah, so I wrote this poem about
About clever men and our violence
And it starts out with this young boy
That wakes up on a desert floor
And all around him are the sights and the sounds of war
Soon he’d learn that the whole world was a desert
And in fact the whole world was at war
Everyone frightened to their core
And so he trained and became a sniper
Eventually climbing to the top
To the highest status, highest income brackets
Highly skilled
Quiet skills
I was taught not to love the land
Never trust the land
Live on a higher plane
You’re above the land
Penthouse suite
Oversee
Don’t need to understand
That man is dust
Man is of the land
Motherland I never touched
I had to run from young
Began to see the only safety
Was gun in hand
I didn’t get to plant seeds or feel the sands
They can seize where you stand
I had to leave it, now I fear the ground
That’s where bodies lay
That’s where bones are found
You gotta own the ground
Who controls the ground?
Sniper
From a higher up elevation
Hire and firing power from a higher education
Higher up the corporate ladder
The higher your social station
Always training your sights
Ready aim and then strike
Gotta stay on top
Hide your wealth
Hide yourself
High and stealth
See those fighting below
And try to help them but
The land is dirty
Their hands is dirty
And man is dirty
It’s kill or be killed, have mercy
And you get taught that from school, everywhere
Big business
If you wanna be successful
It’s gimme, gimme, gimme
Push, push, push
Step, step, step
Crush, crush, crush
I was taught you always take the shot when you got it
And pay the costs from your pockets
And take the losses like a boss
And make the profits too
Trust no one
Gross sums and hold guns
And I don’t run
And I don’t miss
And I don’t miss no one
No diss
But I’m focused
Like my scope is
From my crow’s nest
Low-risk
Tie no strings
No close kin
Stay close-lipped
And I leave no prints
And no hints
And no doubt
When I go out
I goes in then I’m ghost
And their ghosts when I
A sniper brought up to the height of the stakes
Told only the soul is sacred
And any spot that’s vacant you can take
And above all no place is safe
Unless you’re stationed above all
And stay in that space
Hovering over
I was taught everyone is a solider
Life is a fight
Keep money and people tight in your holsters
Yo, it’s killed or be killed
The land is dirty
Their hands is dirty
And man is dirty
It’s all I ever learned
Have mercy
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-- Lyrics --
They make wars
Create wars
They have lots
And they take more
From the have-nots
They’ll take yours
They make borders
They hate foreigners
They hate life
They take life
They take rights
And it aint right
But they don’t play
And don’t play fight
And then they play dumb
I can’t play nice
When they cake
And we stay poor
See they’re snakes
We hate war
We hate war!
But they hate peace
So we make war to make peace
That’s the Great War
We were made for
We were not made to just lay dormant
They stay on top
They pay the cops
They take office
They make laws
And then say, stop?
They say, war just makes war
But then they force us
When state forces all aim for us
And then they say that they’re brave warriors
And saviours
But they’re fake prophets
They make war
‘Cause they profit
They make rockets
Sell to all sides
And it all lines they pockets
Watch ‘em
Masters of war
These fat cats cash in tax-free
On the backs of the poor masses
Diplomats with a mask of decorum
We warned ‘em
Now we’re storming the castle
It’s warranted for the horrors they enact
They’ll pay for it
We’ve paid more than our fair share
And it aint fair
Now we take theirs
They took yours
They made the war
They wage war
Create war
We hate war
We hate war!
But they hate peace
So we make war to make peace
That’s the Great War
We were made for
We were not made to just lay dormant
They invade shores
They raid homes
They rain bombs
And the rain pours
They make war
We don’t make war
We make sure that there’s order
We just follow orders
We just fill orders
For more ballistics, munitions
Equipment for missions, provisions
We just design defense systems
And ship them on time
Listen
My job is complying with city by-laws
And minimizing innocent lives lost
For my bosses
Both at home and abroad
For instance
Drones with a bomb
Can resolve conflicts
All while limiting high costs
So why not?
All businesses strive to expand
War just provides us the chance
To supply a demand
Our stance is, we make instruments
We don’t create incidents
Or instigate
We’re innocent
You’re insolent
Listen
We don’t make war
We all make our decisions
We all gotta make a living
And you make yours
And our position is
That we don’t make war
We may create conditions conducive
Create divisions
But prove it
We make moves
But we don’t make war
We don’t endorse or advocate using force
In fact, our lawyers make sure
Technically, we don’t make war
They place orders, we fill ‘em
They break borders, we kill ‘em
We’re not villains
They’re not civilians
We don’t make war
It existed before and why would I
Or anybody try to make more?
For shame
We’re not to blame for the slain, the flames
The poor, the games, the gains
We all have to deal
We make deals
But we don’t make war
We’re real
We’re realistic
No feels, we talk statistics
Specifics
We’re not mystics
You should pray more
We’re religious
We’re not malicious or vicious
We’re not sadistic
Yo, listen
Don’t get it twisted
Of course
We don’t make war
We don’t make war
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-- Lyrics --
(Stonethrowers)
Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow
In a war zone with only stones to throw
(Stonethrowers)
Vilified by all sides
Vilified for small crimes
Forced to blow for blow
In a war zone with only stones to throw
(Goliath)
We’re gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
Game hasn’t changed, same ol’ monopoly
Same couple players own all of the property
I ain’t a prop, don’t give no props to me
My people still don’t eat properly
Think we forgot?
We was just property
Think we’ll be bought again?
Think that they brought them democracy?
I think they brought back them poppy seeds
My people locked up for chopping
That’s hypocrisy
We wasn’t thought of
We wasn’t brought up and taught we was set up
That’s why we get caught up
Y’all discarded us
Put them bars up
Of course we got guards up
We’re hard cuz we’re hard up
They got them start-ups and Starbucks
We got a couple of stars till the turn ‘em to stardust
They starve us
Can’t even drink water
Up North with that Flint water
All in the sink as they sink farther
Kids on the brink
Y’all went to Harvard and Stanford
Think harder for answers man, think
We’re far below standards
Don’t tell me anger won’t help us
You told me the cancer would shrink
We need a shrink
We just see boys making bands, NSYNC
Open your eyes my fam, we all could be gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Listen
Game hasn’t changed, same game of life we play
Maybe I’m only one roll of the dice away
From a Rolls with some ice and some gold on the license plate
We roll our whole life away
I think they gamed us
Made us be gamers
They gamed with the system
They made it to play us
Gave us controllers
But gave no control up
The game wasn’t made so we’d make it
It’s made up
It’s war that they’re waging
Just look at these wages they pay us
It’s pennies, it pains us
They paint us in corners
On corners
What can we do man, we’re cornered
I’m lucky I’m stuck in this booth
Stuck here all cooped up
People get stuck up for loot
Stuck up and boogie ones
Stuck us in Juvy
They could have stuck up for the youth
Stuck up for justice and truth
Now people either get loud or they shut up and shoot
Give us a shot
Don’t shut us out from the group
You can shut down the nuke
Don’t push our buttons
Suddenly all could go poof
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
Gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
We’re gone in a blink
Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow
In a war zone with only stones to throw
Vilified by all sides
Vilified for small crimes
Forced to go blow for blow
In a war zone with only stones to throw
(Goliath)
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4. |
Get it Got it Good Intro
00:27
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-- Lyrics --
So the whole world was at war
That young boy became one of The Snipers
And there were The Revolutionaries and The Establishment and
The Stone Throwers and other factions clashing and
And then there was this one fearless, foolish guy
That just didn’t believe in the power of bullets
He just didn’t believe that they had the power to take a life
And so he just walked around with no weapon
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-- Lyrics --
They see people run, so they run
So they run
They see people duck, so they duck
So they duck
But these bullets aren’t real
Wanna feel?
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear
Get it, got it, good
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear
Damn, it feels good to be back
Damn, it feels good to be black
They keep on killin’ us, we just keep killin’ it
Mama said killin’ is not where the healing is
Couldn’t speak back
Lord knows she’s been through it
She said a human is not who the villain is
She said it’s fear, it’s greed and it’s pride, you see it inside
That’s what the system is built on, and what it instills in us
Man, I’ve been feelin’ this vibe
Honestly the haters can hate
Just let the creators create
And let the Creator be judge
I’ve made too many mistakes to begrudge and besides
All of us lost without love
Plus maybe some never get woke
Or tire of staying awake
Or party all night, then distraught at the state of the day
Lord, what do you make of this way that I’m walkin’, this path that I’m on
You made a way for me, hope that my map isn’t wrong
Nowadays my legs is weak
What if my staff isn’t strong, what if it breaks?
Who got me?
You got me?
I know you got me good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
I’m talkin’ bout wavy
Talkin’ bout ways we can elevate
Steppin’ up, stare and we escalate
Don’t try to separate
We’ll get together and celebrate
I can do everything
I just don’t hesitate
I can do anything
Allow me to demonstrate
I just can’t wait
I just can’t not be me
I just can’t go back and copy me
I just can’t not be free
I just can’t possibly
Lessons on lessons!
Legends on legends on legends
Little black boy with a poem that he showed to the reverend
Jesus saw Judas and ran up to hug the young brother
It dug at the other eleven, like, why is this traitor in Heaven?
He said, it’s hell on earth anywhere love isn’t present
Wherever he goes, we go together, my brethren
You get it?
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
Get it, got it, good
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear
You see the truth is bullet proof
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear
Wanna be free?
Just answer one question
But answer honestly
What are you afraid of?
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6. |
Magic Intro
00:28
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-- Lyrics --
Now as far as the origins of the war
Well, there were many myths and stories about that
Although, no one really knows how it all began
Some say it started with a simple small misunderstanding
That slowly drove people further and further apart
And others say it was something much more sinister
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-- Lyrics --
They steal
Then they take your memory of the theft
Magic
The show will literally take your breath
Joker in the deck
The devil and its magic
The devil and its magic
The devil and its magic
The devil and its magic
See it’s kinda like magic, huh?
They cause a distraction then poof!
All that we have disappears
Then we clap and forget that it happened
Forgot that we lost it
Forgot that the magic men have it
They grabbed it
They stole it
They caused a distraction
Distraction, distraction!
It’s all a distraction
Imagine
Like magic, poof!
Gone is our land
Our language
Our history
Ancestry, family
Vanished like it was magic
(Poof!)
Gone is our greatness
Our scared places and practices
Suddenly we feel vacant
We saw them take it though
(Poof!)
Our hands lift from the earth, the dirt
From the food, removed
Rezoned, reduced
Reduced, and reduced, and reduced
Until, poof!
Disappeared
It’s all smoke and mirrors
All of it’s magic
The devil and its magic
All of it’s magic
The devil and its magic
Distraction, distraction!
They way that they take
The way of magicians is
In addition to subtraction
They use division
They mastered the craft of it
Listen!
See through the illusions
And all the amusements
They divide humans up
Causing confusion
They use competition
Religion
It’s all just division, man
All of it’s magic
Splitting us into factions
Fighting until we’re fractured
Smaller and smaller fractions
People feeling like zero
Individuals divisible
To the point they’re invisible
(Poof!)
Gone into ghettos and armies and prisons
They won’t be missed
They easily dismiss ‘em
(Poof!)
They’ll dissolve if you give ‘em munitions
And the rest they condition and kill by attrition
(Poof!)
All of it’s magic
The devil and its magic
All of it’s magic
The devil and its magic
See ‘em make up stats
Then make us scrap for the scraps
They have all of it
All of it
All of it’s magic
Rabbit and hat tricks
They’re practiced and crafty
The fastest
You had it then suddenly
(Poof!)
Gone is your work
Your purpose
Your work
The reason you wake
Your sense of the season
Your stake it
(Poof!)
Your traditions and intuitions
Supports, commitments, decisions
They vanish from your hand like
(Poof!)
Your volition, your voice
Your vision, your choice
Your joys, your myths, your mission
Attention gone
(Poof!)
To fast cars and fast fashion
Fast food and no fasting
All distractions
The light blinds ‘em
The fear blinds ‘em
They cash binds ‘em
Just gotta keep them confined until
(Poof!)
Reality’s so hard to look at
That they turn a blind eye
Don’t even care that they took it
The devil and its magic
The devil and its magic
The devil and its magic
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9. |
Sniper Interlude
02:30
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-- Lyrics --
I remember 17
When I was driving home
I realized to be a man
Is to be alone
Drive
That’s when I learned to drive
Snow was falling all around the car
Maybe freedom is when people don’t know where you are
Drive
That’s when I learned to drive
So I drove
Winding roads, top of Poplar Hill
Maybe power is
When they don’t know who got ‘em
(Killed)
Drive
That’s when I learned to drive
I had a dream that I climbed down
From this so-called high ground
They were still firing live rounds
But everything was quiet
Then I awoke on the chapel floor
Wiped my tears
And grabbed my rifle by the chapel door
And walked back on the street
The feeling is fleeting
I try to keep
The dream is sweet
But violence doesn’t sleep
So we
(Drive)
Clever men and our violence
Clever men and our violence
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10. |
Peace/War
04:31
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-- Lyrics --
Clever men and our violence
Silencers when we shoot
From the lip
To quiet them
We talk non-violence
Then stay silent when it suits
It’s all violence at the root
But tyrants are tyrants in a group
It’s who started the shooting?
Who knows, we were born inside of this troop
Taught to shoot as youth
Taught it’s just humans being human
But the truth is
Shoot
The truth is
We don’t know what the truth is
One time for the people in my bloodline
Proud son of the people of the sunshine
My love letter to my people on the frontline
Yours truly even if my pen was unsigned
Know it
The unnamed poet
My life is just a link in a chain
And my chain glowin’
Me and beat is thinking the same
She say go and I just sprint in my lane
Usain, they can’t slow him
My whole team move at light speed
But so smooth the whole movement tai chi
I said my whole team move at light speed
But we so smooth the whole movement tai chi
We strike back with their force
They fight, we get more strength
Like Air Force, no Nikes
I mean no Air Force
More like peace
Soul, body, and psyche
Yo
Now put this beat on for my people trying to keep on lights
And Nissans with the lease on tight
Black folks like Deshaun and Keyshaun
White folk, get your dijon and your quiche on, like whoa
Listen, this is like a thank you you can dance to
Jam hot as a sand dune in Cancun
Show you how the fam moves, how a champ do
I can’t lose when I’m kicking it, Man U.
See they like me ‘cause I aint the type to lick a shot
Still if a shooter make me shoot it, I can’t miss the shot
Pistol cocked, more like missile launch
Chill and it piss ‘em off
How they can’t piss him off
Killer cross
My whole team move at light speed
But so smooth the whole movement tai chi
I said my whole team move at light speed
But we so smooth the whole movement tai chi
We strike back with their force
They fight, we get more strength
Like Air Force, no Nikes
I mean no Air Force
More like peace
Peace
Peace
See the fool said
They see people run
So they run
They see people duck
So they duck
But these bullets aren’t real
Wanna feel?
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear”
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear”
They can’t kill us
‘Cause they can’t see us
‘Cause they only see fear
And we’re fearless
Wanna feel?
But they said
No
No
No
We know life and its sacredness
We know life ‘cause we’ve taken it
You can’t know life without death
We know war, we know best
We know life and its sacredness
We know life ‘cause we’ve taken it
You can’t know life without death
We know war, we know best
Some wounds don’t heal, you wanna feel?
You don’t know the shame or the thrill
You don’t know pain
You claim to be real
But you’ve never killed and you never will
You can’t know life without death
We know war, we know best
We know life and its sacredness
We know life ‘cause we’ve taken it
Blood and guns
And blood and cum
These bloody gums
Don’t mind my tongue
If blood is wine
I’m bloody drunk
And I’m divine
I know life
I just don’t like sleep is all
It’s too close to death
So I keep from falling
(Asleep)
I wanna keep it all
I keep a weapon on me
You can keep your calm
I’ve been weak and wrong
I’ve cheap and a cheat
And deceitful and evil
See I know life
These bullets aren’t real, wanna feel?
I wanna be numb, give me the numbers
I live in the slum, I want slumber
They only lift a thumb to keep us under
I know life, I know death
You never shot or stopped breath
See I know regrets, I know debts
You might be right
But you know less
I know fights, I know stress
When you can’t forget
Or clean the mess up
When it’s fact, it’s done
It’s true that a Uzi weighs a ton
In the heat of the sun
Look
Some wounds don’t heal, you wanna feel?
You don’t know the shame or the thrill
You don’t know pain
You claim to be real
But you’ve never killed and you never will
You can’t know life without death
We know war, we know best
We know life and its sacredness
We know life ‘cause we’ve taken it
And you can’t own what you’ve never known
So I’ll take yours
Get shown what it’s like
This death, this life
This fight is real
Some wounds don’t heal
Wanna feel?
Blessed are the peacemakers
For they shall be called sons of God
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-- Lyrics --
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
Y’all are light work
This my life’s work
I don’t write verses
I’m talking right versus wrong
There’s a fight going on
Trying to find the right purpose
Trying to find the right person
Who was at the end of my searches?
Me
I had to earn the trust
Had to learn to trust myself
First
Putting someone else’s concerns above myself
When it hurts
Can you shake it off
When you take a loss
Will they make you lose it?
When they say you’re soft
Can you play thru it
Play your music
Take abuses
Stay in tune
In the game
All the same
Stay improvin’
Keep it human
Keep in tune
While you keep it movin’
For the movement
Don’t be paralyzed
Don’t be sacred of tryin’
Don’t be carry it all
You can share the weight
Let it marinate
I’m here when you call
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
I’ve been feeling like I’m ready to red stripe and zone
Feeling like some red lights in the dead of night, alone
Too many red-eyes and Red Bulls, unread texts and RedTube
No rest in my bed at night at home
Maybe I won’t ever get it right
Never set it right
If I write it down
‘Least I said it right
When I get the mic
Can I give it up?
Just to give ‘em love
Not to get a like
It’s cause and effect
The cause is the message we get
That we’re faulty, defective
A God-awful mess
The effect is depression
So we ball out, put walls up
To protect from rejection
Pause and reflect
Acceptance
Acknowledge this breath
That we got is a blessing
When it’s all in perspective
Let it out
When in doubt
Know we all
Been in doubt
In the clouds
In the rain sing it out
The world is yours
I wanna see you shine
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
It’s all in your
Frame of mind
Let it go
Y’already know
The world is yours
Night and day
I wanna see you shine
Can you bear it?
Bear witness to pain
Theirs and yours
In silence
(Clever men and our violence)
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12. |
Another Year
06:07
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-- Lyrics --
So in the end I guess the moral of the story is
That the war continues within us
Every day
Another year in Toronto
Another drunk in a bar
Barf in a parkette
Another dunk for Demar
More junk of the hearts
Beats in the trunk of the car
On a hard drive
I’m talking from the Junction to Scarbs
Trump is in charge
And they trump up the charges
Told my man that maybe he should move up here
But we get bumped to the margins
Marved
Many kids starved
Mumbling bars
We’re numb to the numbers
Of people sleeping under the stars
Can’t argue that the lump isn’t large now
Greed is a sickness
Far worse than a lung full of SARS
We’re number one in the charts
Only one in the pews
Planes and clouds in the skies
Cranes downing the highs
Crowding the views
I wonder how much housing is used
Downtown under construction
Sounding loud and confused
Down tempo and woozy
Hard techno and trap
Had
Forgot the last line
Another night in Toronto
An autumn walk through the park
Another heart fills with sorrow
From a shot in the dark
And yet, another tomorrow that we both didn’t see
A disagreement turned argument we both didn’t need
I say you never considered
You say that I never cared
Your arms are crossed on the couch
I’m gonna go get some air
Beyond the park I cross Jarvis and Front until Yonge
We’re young, somewhat undone by city we’re from
An empty plate with no meal
A shining knife and a fork
The smartest artists all jump on a plane to New York
You tell me that I should settle
As if staying’s a choice
But I’ve been using my music
So you’ve been losing your voice
I feel the constant control
You feel the constant neglect
You’re scared of developers aiming at our neighbourhood next
And I feel the same people tasked to serve and protect
Where do we walk in the city where the police are a threat?
If we object to the mention of being pushed to the edge
They politely ignore us, say that we’re driving a wedge
But our rent, it soars higher like the gulls by the lake
They either build or destroy
We either give or we take
I get a text on my phone
I see your name with a face
With a wink and a smile
When I arrive we embrace
Your arms closed over my shoulders
My hands woven on your waist
Sweet and sour September
Bitter moments that taste
I hope that we never scar
Though we are licking the wounds
Sweet and sour, our city
A thousands flowers in bloom
In a glass covered garden
Downtown in the park
Your sweet and sour Toronto
Helped me see in the dark
Dufferin Street
Tandridge Crescent
34th Ave
3rd and Windner
Rugby Boulevard
Bergen Line
Jarvis and Gerrard
Yo
The tide rises in me
When the moon is full
I feel these lines bubble up and overflow in my soul
I watch the wind when it caresses the limbs and tree branches
Older than me
The city chopped them down last week
I could’ve cried
My view of my window
It kinda died
Now I’m mourning at the altar of these days gone days
I fill my glass up with could’ve been-should’ve been wine
And got drunk off the illusion of time
Entitled in the worst way
Living like my life is my own
We all thirsty, wonder why we don’t feel whole
Slowly emerging, the evidence we out of control
It is our children that inherit this all
I want children in the worst way
Feel I should apologize though
Like I’m selfish or small-minded for not wanting much more
Or maybe it’s too much to ask
Broken, walking on glass
Soaking up the curses and blessings of ancestors past
A legacy that can last
We don’t see that too often
All my thirty-something people look around and feel lost
And why is that?
I had a thought but the beat came back
I lost it, found in music my senses get lost in
Often
Rambling with wisdom that’s older than all your logic
Words are not the ultimate
Feelings distort the optics
Spiritually led to follow wherever my heart is
And it took me on some detours
I still stay on topic
You wanna hear something relevant, something obvious
I’ll tell you how my life got started
Aborted options
And this life ain’t all there is
There’s more to this than trending topics
I promise
You ain’t hear me though, right?
Let me get off this
Train I’m riding on
I missed my stop
Just so I rocked this
Let the thoughts flow where there the train go
Dundas to Bloor to Royal York to the bus, 73C
Where my parents rest aint the best
But that’s the option
And everywhere I nest it feels like home when I get lost in this
Thank you for listening, my spirit can rest now
Rectory Street
Trafalgar Court
Ewing Street
Churchill Road
Bayshore Drive
Baseline
Her Womb
That last line, it just came back
It was, had snow before Snow could rap
That’s where I’m at
And now I’ll rap the track
Still feel a couple joints by him, by the way
Find ‘em in that playlist that I hide away
Ok, what was I trying to say?
On the inside been making big strides, Giannis
See the kid fly
Not just making the bucks or the big time
Some give time
Pour their hearts out
Then sit and sip wine
From this vine
By the way I miss Vine
Anyways, this is what it means to me to live fine
Every day
Guess I’m still singing the same song
The one about trying
Only thing that I can say without lying
I wish I knew a seed that could grow without dying
I wish that I could
Look you in the eyes and smile without crying
Funny thing is, I wanna trying to tell a joke this whole time
I think that I’ve been trying to say goodbye
Well, I’m open to surprise
Even open to demise
Feet planted in the city
Hands open to the skies
Once I was baptized in an ocean in a storm
In front every force that wants to see me conform
And in front of every crowd that wants to see me perform
Every night, every morning I’m reborn
Transformed in this this war torn
Soul, mind, city globe
Before we all explode
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All I Need
02:58
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-- Lyrics --
(All I need is love)
Rap is easy, man I grew up on it
Like Chapati with the stew up on it
Always knew
If I put something new up on it
Put your crew up on it
Make it do what it do…
I don’t really need much
See what’s funny is
Money says In God We Trust
We trust the money though
Funny, ‘cause we don’t need stuff
We just need someone to do need us
See I wield weapons
Why? ‘Cause I feel threatened
Why? ‘Cause they wield weapons
Why? ‘Cause they feel threatened
My goodness
How can I put this?
What if I could just…
It’s been a minute but it’s still me
For all the timid and the real G’s
We take it to the limit trying to feel free
But what been true always will be
And that’s…
The truth is bulletproof
The truth is bulletproof
The truth is bulletproof
(It’s everything that you want)
And I know men gotta do better
Growing up, I wish we knew better
No excuses, just saying we reproduce it
Whenever we reproduce ‘cause we don’t know how
How to accept love, express love
We were taught power is how you get love
And men don’t make love
We take love
And only saints deserve His great love
So we kinda hate love
I’m trying to name the feelings:
The shame, the guilt
Revealing the pain
To heal it and change for real
Ain’t it strange it’s the ones that we love that we aim to kill
We put holes in em for the holes in us
Just one thing can fill
This ain’t a drill, it’s an emergency
I keep them hurting them
Why? The hurt in me
The hurt in men
And it’s hurting me
Look, we never learn speak
Never learn that need ain’t weakness, like..
Yo all my past releases masterpieces
I’m Master P with his Master’s thesis
But I could have it all and still lack what’s needed
It’s not a secret, all I’m saying is…
Truth is better proof
Truth is better proof
Truth is better proof
(It’s everything that you want)
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Shad Toronto, Ontario
Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper from London, Ontario and the host of Netflix’s Hip-Hop Evolution. His albums have been recognized for their sharp lyrics and soulful arrangements.
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