After bein' 25, you know, just trying to in the world 'Bout to have a little boy or girl, who knows? Anyway, just you start getting' that little age And to you You thinkin' about stuff, tryin' to make the right moves So bust it out, is what I was thinkin', check it
Yo, the education of the Lon-chicka-Lonnie Began, began with my bloodline is one with the divine In time brotha, you discover the light Some say that God is and the devil's white Well, the is wrong and God is what's right
I fight with in the ring of doubt and fear The rain ain't gone but I can see clear 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 the rhythm that I played to And became a slave to self A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his
My mind had with the books of Zen, Tao the lessons Koran and the Bible, to me they all And got truth 'em, gotta read them boys You just skim 'em, different branches of belief
But one root stem 'em But people of the venom try to 'em And use religion as an When it should be a natural way of Who am I or they to say to whom you pray right
That's who got you doin' 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 trumpets blowin', 24 surround the throne Only 144,000 gon get Only 144,000 gon get 144,000 gon get it, baby
I've and I've learned I have and I've earned I have laughed, cried I have failed and I tried Sunshine, pouring Found joy all my pain I just wanna be happy with me
Let me my concern So many of my fellow brothers have given a title That actions didn't earn Our ignorance is in the breath as our innocence Subconsciously, to find An impressionable mind to
I've finally to the realization Why black 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 know more black history than we do
we bein' lied to? I ain't our history was purposely hidden Damn, somethin' in me wanna who I am So I began my search, my started in church It gave my heartache when I started to understand belief Hustlin' was like a spent my share of time in the streets
Taught me survival from this I'm just gonna have to deal with And I felt like a fool when I to learn it in school It almost seemed a rehearsal when the only and math are universal
Takin' elder advice, the Bible, the Koran Searched scrolls the Hebrew Israelites Hold on, this ain't right, Jesus wasn't Some leads were granted insight
And it's all in the plan, but it took me some to overstand He still created the imperfection of man So, with I disagree By no means I forgotten or forgiven been done to me but I do know the devil ain't no white man, the devil's a mind
That's color blind, there's evil white folk and niggas You gon surely find there's no positivity without But one side you gonna to choose Any chance to I refuse to misuse
So how can you call God you let a worldly possession Become an and the way you write your 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, don't enslave your own If you God, then save your own, don't mentally your own If you God, then save your own, don't mentally enslave own
Well, I've lived and I've I've taken and I've I have laughed, I cried I failed and I have Sunshine, pourin' I found joy through my wanna be happy, bein' me, bein' me