Shadows On The Sun Lyrics - Singles - Brother Ali

(We'd like to capture your minds right now) 

(What you say) 

(Take you a little bit higher) 

(What you say) (3X) 

[ VERSE 1 ] 

I like the snares loud enough to make your eyes blink from it 

Only male with the Holy Grail, drink from it 

I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street 

And spread a thick layer of blood, sweat and tears on the beats 

My brain rest upon the hip-hop lexicon 

That I acquired in the decade of work that people slept upon 

I don't rap, I recite the prayers of the inner soul 

Of the slave ships' human cargo 

Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market 

With shit that make me pace in my room until I rip the carpet 

I'm fit to start up this next millennium 

Swingin' the grappling hook at cackling crooks to finish 'em 

The city dweller sendin' telegrams from Neverland 

The better man kind now, kindly join the caravan 

We're like a rock band that pack contraband 

And won't hesitate to stomp a man into the rocks and sand 

Brother Ali, and if you haven't heard about me 

I'm flyin' just beneath your radar so y'all can doubt me 

Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds 

There's a ladder you're supposed to climb 

Approach a Rhymesayer with a Buggsy Siegel sized ego 

You gon' get yourself snatched out the sky, you know the steelo 

By now, where, what, why and how 

We start the revolution real time, right now 

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[ CHORUS ] 

Yes, leave it to me to create hope where there was none 

The human being shall cast shadows on the sun 

Leave it to me to create hope where there was none 

My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun 

Leave it to me to create hope where there was none 

The human being shall cast shadows on the sun 

Leave it to me to create hope where there was none 

My inner soul shall, my inner light shall. 

[ VERSE 2 ] 

I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights 

Prayin' they don't starve tonight 

And stay positive in the face of a harder life 

My chorus light the torch for those on whom the sun set 

Verses meant to speak for the voiceless 

So let us never be dismayed or afraid 

The ground we're walking on is stained 

With the blood of those before us who came 

Soldiers in this freedom movement are too numerous to name 

Cause the human soul yearns to be free, it's all the same 

I rhyme for runaways, prayin' that they see another day 

You gotta' make it through the winter to feel some summer days 

It's for my natives, it's history in the way their hair is braided 

Elephants never forget, that's how they say it 

Tell my man Hasim in prison keep grinnin' because he's innocent 

And tell him that the tests we get are heaven-sent 

Listen, I rap for the ones that Johnny Cash wore, the black, for 

Black and white women that were turned to crackhores 

And I empty everything in the bank to give for it 

I empty all the days of my life to live for it 

And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it 

So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it 

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[ CHORUS ] 

[ VERSE 3 ] 

I glance in the sky and see the same cloud configuration 

That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him 

Resisted in the face of adversity with a fist and it was raised 

One finger extended, meaning Allah be praised 

Spent days in Heaven's embassy 

On Qu'ran pages Allah explains this legacy 

Angels doubted Adam, Jacob's brothers clapped him 

And ancient Pharaohs were too brutal to fathom 

If all the earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pens 

You could never write the knowledge of God, it never ends 

And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend 

But it's the way of makin' the oppressed prevalent men 

We standin' with humanity at destiny's door 

Chanting the war cry, it goes, "Never no more" 

So if y'all tryin'a talk about the horrors you see 

Feel free to tell your stories through me 

[ CHORUS ] 

There's only one God and he's not just above 

There's only one man and there's only one love 

Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed 

For that y'all, we willing to bleed 

There's only one God and he's not just above 

There's only one woman and there's only one love 

We doin' this till all of Adam's children are freed 

And for that y'all, we willin' to bleed