Nah, I wasnt raised at gunpoint and Ive too many books To distract me from the mirror, when with my looks And I aint got diction for the makings of a thug Though I grew up in the ghetto and my niggers all drugs
And though that may validate me for a on MTV Or get me all the that my bank account would need I was hoping to in a lesson that I learned I thought this fool had jumped me just it was my turn
I went to an open space I knew he wouldnt do it If somebody there could see him or somebody else prove it And maybe in eyes, it may seem I got punked out 'Cause I walked a path and then went and changed my route
But that openness exposed me to a truth I find In the clenched of my ego or the confines of my mind Or the of my swagger or the swagger in my step Or the scowl of my or the meanness of my rep
we represent a truth, son, the changes by the hour And when you open to it, is power And in that shifting form, youll find a truth that doesnt And that truth is living proof of the fact God is strange
Talk to strangers, when the family and friends lead you astray When laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay 'Cause Angels and Messiahs, love can come in forms In the hallways of your projects or the fat girl in dorm
And when you finally the time to see what theyre about Perhaps you find them or their wisdom trips you out Maybe youll the spot where cycles end You're back where you But come this time around, youll have someone to hold hand
Who for you, who is there for you, who sends you love and light you to parts of you that you once tried to fight But come this time around, you'll to walk a different path You'll embrace what you turned away and cry at you laughed
'Cause thats the way were going to make it through this storm Where ignorance is common sense and senselessness the And flags wave above the truth and the two never touch And stolen goods are overpriced and costs too much
And no one seems to the symbols come to life The apple on the screen and Jesus had a wife And she was his Messiah like stranger may be yours Who holds a subtle that carves through worlds like magic doors
And what Ive been looking for, the bridge from then to now Just watching BET like the fuck, son? This is foul But that box don't represent the sphere that we live in The earth is not a flat screen, I trying to fit in
But aint for the underground, this here is for the sun A seed a stranger gave to me and planted on my And when I look at you, I Im not the only one As a great man once said, nothing more powerful Than an idea time has come