(Blackstar;Walker). So you do not know what you have got until it is gone. Cannot change my tune but I sure can change the song. And you know the show must go on.
Nigga, come off, check this out, check this out. Listen all this shit y'all talkin' ain't got no frills. We'll pass the 40 around and we'll see who's got some skills.
Christ knows it is easy, so goddamn easy. So come on and give me your best shot. Please criticize me, come analyze me. Because I can take it all, let me tell you now.
Well, you run from your reasons as you slip on your soul. Now you're keeping a hold of something you've never known. You're tying your mind claiming life is your side, yeah.
Hello everybody, recording live from somewhere. . Lord, Lord have mercy. All nice an' peace an' true, follow me now, we say. Say, "Hi-Tek, yes, you're rulin' hip hop".
Once upon a time not long ago. When people wore Adidas and lived life slow. When laws were stern and justice stood. And people was behaving like hip-hop was good.
So Jesus left you lonely. Feels like nothing's really holy. No one, no one hears your calling. Falling, everything is falling. . Do you feel alive?. Can you feel alive?.
(Mos Def (Talib Kweli)). We here, we here, we here (yes yes yes yes). Fire code (uh uh uh uh). Yes, huh (hey). We roll from uh- you know (hey). You know what time it is (get your hand out my).
Will you lay me down, will you lay me down?. Will you lay me down inside heavens walls. Where every soul is a setting sun?. . Will you take my hand, will you take my hand?.
Yo, yo, yo, yo the Sheep are back, black. On the attack that fattens your format. And suckers have to backtrack, regroup, resign. As me and mine recline in shade.
Brown skin lady, hey hey. Yes. Where you goin. This goes to the brown skin ladies. Brown skin lady. Yo, indigineous women of the planet earth. What you doin?.
It's cool that we create our mission. . Now, relax your body, your soul, let your mind be free. You know Mr Lawnge is hanging so come swing with me. Honey, I'll take you for a ride or better yet ride you.
Please don't suffer. Gotta just make it quick. You thought you had it. You don't now what it takes to beg. You lost your cause. You lost your time to kill.
Listen, hon, I mean, ah, as slamming as you are and all that good. Stuff. It ain't doing me no good out here cause you got too many clothes on. So why don't we just take this cab and uh, slide on uptown and uh.
Alright. . I have made my bed and now it is time to lie down. Dark clown eternal with a permanent wary frown. Still holding out with pessimistic hope.
I'm gonna take time. I'm gonna take time. I'm gonna take time. . Sure feels like I'm falling down again. Sure feels like I'm falling down again. Sure feels like I'm falling down again.
Dag, I wish I was like Jordan. So I could just fly through the air no one could ever stop me. Or, or like Mike Mike Tyson so I could just knock people's heads off.
[mos def, kweli, background singers]. . (yes you areee, you're so beautiful). fantastic. (on your knees). absolutely fantastic. (in my life). absolutely fantastic.
Restless sinner, rest in sin. He's got no face to hold him in. He feels his day is dark as night. He's been waiting with the blind. Just to find a place to hide his ghost.
Black Sheep, ready to nova, I gotta get up and get over. Yo, Lisle, Lisle put a, put a little. Little bit of, bit of the layer on my voice, please?. Lawnge, what's up, we gonna do these drops or what.