[Intro: Raw J and Oatmeal exchange]

And strength prayed to be fearless like me

When the lights go out at night, I can see

Love had to ask me where I got this heart

Been here forever, so don't put a date on my art

Balance wondered how this plan was executed

A foot soldier with five stars when I got recruited

Spent nights in crowded clubs yelling at deaf ears

When the student is ready, that's when the master appears



[Oatmeal]

I give it up to those who've given

Live it up for those who livin'

with or with out the lights

with or with out a fight

I'll read and write my way to heaven

never paint my way to hell

I talk about the here and now I'm hopin to break these spells



[Raw J]

The moon and sun could neither reach my birthplace

My mother held me in the cold

blankets protected my face

A child born with no knowledge of his blood line

But in time realized the throne is mine



[Oatmeal]

I never walk around this place like somebody owes me something

Plant the seeds of hard work so I could grow me something

When the harvest season comes I'm reaping what I sew

When the tax man comes around my way I pay back what I owe



[Raw J]

Several suicide attempts on my spirit

Drunkenly walked on this edge but heard your voice and didn't fear it

Without a name

without a reason to be hoping

Just a lock with only one key that could open

it was you



[Oatmeal]

And it was you in and out my life but never really gone

Every decision is mine for this life I carry on

My definition in constant change, introspection

I find direction inside myself

help those who help themselves



[Raw J]

As we stood on the verge of the next chapter

All I could hear was children and playground laughter

Moving toward contentment not just talking the talk

And carefree like kids skipping on the sidewalk chalk



[Hook]



[Oatmeal]

The only place in this world where everything is making sense

True life experience not the fast paced condensed

Every day life I bang it out

I need time for hanging out

The salty air hits my emotions

Constant motion in this place I'm conversating with the breaks

plus the breeze

This shit can bring you to your knees

I'm trying to grasp every moment, each second is like a lifetime

Like the earth was breathing for the first time

My broken posture with ease

The fulfillment of these needs

The master plan of life, yeah its hard to conceive

And I seen it first hand

You gotta start where you stand

Some treating life like a pair of dice

Its far from paradise

No promise in this land but still we down to roll

Take back what was stole

Feed your fam as a whole

you gotta harness the intangible

Something from nothing we are

A simple answer by far

But we don't want it



[Raw J]

The few drops of water fell down my face

Returning me to my peoples birthplace

The dirt embraces me, not pullin me under

Barefooting on fields which birthed my mother

Its hard to live as a negative, positive, derivative

With soldiers blood taking departure

Stealing our hearts with the aim of an archer

But I ask can we please take it farther?

Man, the breeze smooth talked me to no longer worry

Cause we all dying in a hurry

Our first and last journey

Will I let this struggle deter me?

Or show love till each one of ya'll burn me?

See that's on my unwanted need

On concrete that bleed

Only seek to be freed

For my unborn seed

Till all the blind can read

That this chess game got us feeling incomplete, (incomplete)

Gotta topple the last piece

Redefine the rules

And not punch a clock after each and every move

If its me vs. you, then we all going to lose

Tired of sliding box to box in and out the blues

Solid ground my quest till my ashes rest

Seek completion not just pass or fail on this test

Stopped fearing death no longer getting old

Unifying the mind, body, and soul

Living life as a master



[Hook]