After bein' 25, you know, just to survive in the world 'Bout to have a little boy or girl, who knows? Anyway, just when you start that little age And to you You start thinkin' about stuff, to make the right moves So it out, this is what I was thinkin', check it
Yo, the education of the Lynn Began, with time my bloodline is one with the divine In time brotha, you will the light Some say God is black and the devil's white Well, the devil is and God is what's right
I with myself in the ring of doubt and fear The rain ain't gone but I can still see As a child, religion with no answer to why Just told believe in 'cuz for me he did die
killed the catechism Understanding and wisdom became the that I played to And became a slave to self A man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health
My mind had dealt the books of Zen, Tao the lessons and the Bible, to me they all vital And got truth within 'em, gotta read them You just can't skim 'em, branches of belief
But one root that 'em But people of the try to trim 'em And use as an emblem When it should be a natural way of Who am I or they to say to you pray ain't right
That's who got you right and got you this far you say, "In Jesus name", or, "Al hum du'Allah" Long as you it's a bein' that's supreme to you You let that towards others in the things you do
'Cuz when the blowin', 24 elders surround the throne 144,000 gon get home Only 144,000 gon get Only 144,000 gon get it,
I've and I've learned I taken and I've earned I have laughed, cried I have and I have tried Sunshine, rain Found joy all my pain I wanna be happy with being me
Let me voice my So many of my fellow brothers given themselves a title That their actions didn't Our ignorance is in the same as our innocence Subconsciously, seeking to An impressionable to convince
I've finally come to the Why people in the worse place 'Cuz it's hard to correct when you don't know Who you are in the first place , so I try to the clue in you But evidently, white folks know black history than we do
we bein' lied to? I ain't know our history was hidden Damn, somethin' in me wanna who I am So I began my search, my journey in church It gave my heartache relief when I started to understand Hustlin' was a gift spent my share of time in the streets
me survival from this evil I'm just gonna have to deal with And I felt a fool when I tried to learn it in school It seemed like a rehearsal when the only Science and math are
Takin' advice, read the Bible, the Koran Searched scrolls the Hebrew Israelites Hold on, ain't right, Jesus wasn't white Some leads granted with insight
And it's all in the plan, but it me some time to overstand He still created the imperfection of man So, followin' I disagree By no means have I or forgiven been done to me but I do know the devil ain't no white man, the devil's a mind
color blind, there's evil white folk and evil niggas You gon surely find there's no positivity negativity But one side you gonna to choose Any chance to speak I to misuse
So how can you call God you let a worldly possession Become an obsession and the way you write rhymes And can't your lesson
If a seed's sown, you make it's known You make sure it's If you God, then save your own, mentally enslave your own If you God, then save own, don't mentally enslave your own If you God, then save own, don't mentally enslave your own
Well, lived and I've learned taken and I've earned I laughed, I have cried I failed and I tried Sunshine, rain I joy through my pain Just wanna be happy, me, bein' me