I had a way then, losing it all on my own
I had a heart then but the Queen has been overthrown
And I’m not sleeping now
The dark is too hard to beat
And I’m not keeping up the strength I need to push me
You sure the lights don’t stop me
Turn to stone shining when I’m alone
And so I tell myself that I be strong
Dreaming when they’re gone
Cause they’re calling, calling, calling
They’re calling, calling, calling
You sure the lights don’t stop me
Turn to stone shining when I’m alone

So what are you gonna stand for?
Dreads in the sky eye and eye two new vans on the land for..
Take that back make that two new shoes on the van floor
Me and my band on out on road we’ll never back down from a stands tour
Yeah, touch more souls than a dance floor
While they… touch less floors than a hand or..
Ceiling fan or wait let me tell you slower
If my fans up to the ceiling and you’ll never touch the floor
Nothing flower needs a rower

 
I’ll be there with my aura until we get back to the shore
Dad made me a soldier G.I. Joe to the cobras
Trying to FBI my panther, CIA my Sankofa
Infiltrate my carter, illuminate my culture
When they’re watching through that buckle
But I stay up on my hustle

Trying to build back on themselves, now watch them scream for help
Like Africa need aid or black woman as maids
Uncover undercover turns those maids to brothers mothers
Take they hero out of Niño keep it realest trouble trouble huh
Or maybe cartoon Martin on The Boondocks
Flip the script on chicks who think they shit smell like perfume shops
Half them girls find beauty without a magazine or movie
Now see Delilah with them Forty-Fives or Keisha with that Uzi
Now I know that’s contradiction once in needs some competition
But it’s hard to stay on point with such extremes and opposition
While we waiting on that compromise
Proceed with that conscious side

 
New gang alert, hash-tag Occupy
Rep (rap) it until the death of me
F-N-F what’s left of me
All my hating for the fake recipe for wrestling
Only time I wrestle is when I’m wrestling with settling
Only way I’ll settle is if we wrestle over everything
I know that that don’t mix like ecstasy and ketamine
It’s funny how I’m only sick if you never catch a thing
Argue with your friends over what really the record means
Back and forth about it’s course with professors refereeing
Why he so rebellious?

 
Upfront with his realness?
They want to be Fiasco’s, reproduce his Failures
Emperor is his alias but not Martin Aurelius
This is more like sparta, kick you down the well kid..
And on my last check, I copped that NSX just like Pharrel did..
Well did, better doing is to come
My only promise is that I’ll never ruin the young
I’ll never humanly sung lyrics in the spirit thats..
Super humanly some keep you perusing the sum of..
Slums plus get up out of them plus
Never forget just where you from plus..
Make sure that you’re balling when you comeback up in them plus..
We dont die, multiply every single come up
Pa rum pa pum pum YUP!!

 
I had a way then, losing it all on my own
I had a heart then but the Queen has been overthrown
And I’m not sleeping now
The dark is too hard to beat
And I’m not keeping up the strength I need to push me