See, I’ve been a wide-eyed tye-dyed wise fool./
I’ve written a million fly vibe haikus./
I’ve seen the sun set, and the moon rise too./
And I’ve tried to do whatever I could do to find the truth. I’ve…/
Climbed shoots and ladders into the sky./
They said it mattered, I asked why, and that’s fine./
As a matter of fact, it’s spectacular./
We have to have our allies, but I’d rather be a challenger./
To battle you, yeah, to rattle up the cage./
To teach you how to master the rage inside your veins./
Yo, for real though, there’s hella snakes inside my plane./
And hatred has a million different names, so walk away./
Walk away, tell it your busy, not today./
Little Billy doesn’t really want to play, not today./
Na, today, he’s gonna bond with the anonymous,/
And get lost in the possibilities that blossom up./
Na, today, he’s gonna rock this friggin’ audience,/
And blast off in a rocket ship, and find his way to God again./
Na today, he’s gonna frolic disregarding this/
Robotic monotonous ill villainous metropolis.
Walk away, tell it your busy, not today./
Little Billy doesn’t really want to play, not today./
Na, today, he’s gonna bond with the anonymous,/
And get lost in the possibilities that blossom up./
Na, today, he’s gonna rock this friggin’ audience,/
And blast off in a rocket ship, and find his way to God again./
Na today, he’s gonna frolic disregarding this/
Robotic monotonous ill villainous metropolis./
Uh, he had to kick in the door, cuz he was constantly envisioning more./
And the moral of the story was to worship and conform/
For a place to sleep that’s comfortable and warm, and I’m bored./
Fuck!.. Would you rather be free or be entertained?/
…Would you rather be endangered or enslaved?/
Would you rather be the dweller of a messy metal cage?/
Or a member of the rebels in a cave? Press play./
Uh, yeah, tell me exactly where your hearts at./
Spark rap, I can see the diamonds in the dark rap./
Art craft, I can see the secrets in your star map./
Read it over boom bap guitar tracks, hot wax./
Draw back the bow and let it go…/
If ya never shoot then ya never know… no, no, no…/
Clever little predator, competitor, and foe./
The part of you that never let’s go… Let go…/
Draw back the bow and let it go…/
If ya never shoot then ya never know… no, no, no…/
Clever little predator, competitor, and foe./
The part of you that never let’s go… Let go…/
Draw back the bow and let it go…/
If ya never shoot then ya never know… no, no, no…/
Clever little predator, competitor, and foe./
The part of you that never let’s go… Let go…/
See they don’t need to pin us, we keep ourselves down./
We’re all unique, you need to listen how your self sounds./
So settle down before you have yourself a melt down,/
And help your friends out, but best get out if you’re about to drown./
Outta sight, outta mind… I’m from outta town./
The power’s precious and divine, yo, without a doubt./
When life handed me lemons, I went the sour route,/
And I don’t even know if that’s something I should be proud about./
You see I go with the flow, but I flow against the grain./
Demonstrate pain in my very own special way./
I’m very patient, but I very seldom hesitate/
Because I know that it can kill a man to be a second late./
Better to wait then waste space and waste time/
Wadin’ through wasted swine and fake slime./
Better to wait then waste space and waste time/
Wadin’ through wasted swine and fake slime./
So I climb, yeah, I climb to the sun, /
And realize that my mind is a gun, have fun./
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I climb to the sun.
And realize that my mind is a gun, have fun./
So I climb, yeah, I climb to the sun, /
And realize that my mind is a gun, have fun./
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I climb to the sun.
And realize that my mind is a gun, have fun…./
And now that that’s done, have fun./
credits
from Prezent,
released February 4, 2017
Lyrics by Zen Tempest
Beat by Lost at Sea
Recorded and Mixed by Thaddeus Moore at Sprout City Studios
Mastered by Potion Productions
Somewhere in the space between Alan Watts and Aesop, Immanuel Kant and Immortal Technique, Kahlil Ghibran and Kendrick
Lamar...
There is a special place.
A place where the majestic backdrop of boom bap music is populated by notions of prosperity and inner peace, where urban cityscapes and celestial horizons meet in a glorious display of poetic union.
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