Look at the sky the sun is rising
with another day
Look at the sky the sun is rising
with another day to lay at our feet
what will we do and what will we see
are the questions that keep us intrigued
Look at the world of possibilities
what happens now and where will we go
and there's a kind of freedom in knowing
it's a little beyond our control
that life keeps moving
People laugh, markets crash,
someone takes a photograph
the mail arrives, babies cry
someone tries suicide
A building burns, a crime occurs,
tankers sink, satellites blink
people shop, traffic stops,
but life keeps moving
Look at sky, the new horizon
look at the changes it will involve
someone will die, a country may fall
but the world will continue to roll
life keeps moving
A one-one, two one two
On & on & on & on
Wake the fuck up 'cause it's been too long
Say wait a minute, Queen
What's your name
I be that gypsy
Flippin' life game from the right brain
Ascension maintained
Rolling through like a burning flame
Like a super nova star
She be the light
When they in the dark
Morning
The moon pass the sun
Four constellations start forming
Across up in the sky
But everybody wanna ask me why
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
Don't go talkin' that shit Badu, Badu
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
Don't go talkin' that shit Badu, Badu
Said I'm a Pisces
Zika deka del
Well well I'm raising hell
People always tryin' to find the world I'm in
I'm the envy of the women and I rule the men
2 fish, 1 swimmin' up stream
1 swimmin' down livin' in a dream
But when she loves she tends to cling
When incense burns, smoke unfurls
Analog girl in a digital world
The rasta style flower child
Zip dip dow, zip dip dow
The gold tooth smile
Split them vowels
Bling bloom bling, melinated
I'm 'bout ta give birth to church
But everybody want to ask this earth
What'
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
Don't go talkin' that shit Badu, Badu
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
Don't go talkin' that shit Badu, Badu
Bridge!
I remember when I went
With Momma to the Washateria
Remember how I felt the day
I first started my period
Remember there in school one day
I learned I was inferior
Water in my cereal
Badu in your stereo
Holla if you hear me though
Remembering is good if you don't
Let it be the fear in you
Wrap ya head with this material
Cause you did not do your math
My cypher keeps moving like a rolling stone
Mad props to god ja born
Things just ain't the same for singers
Gotta sing on the beat the bring us
But that's all I have ain't got no mo
But still the people really wanna to know
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
Don't go talkin' that shit Badu, Badu
What good do your words do
If they can't understand you
I can see you, I
Can see you
On and on and on we'll go until we freeze
On and on and on because we like
I am on
Switched on
A sudden clearness, a clarity
Hidden away, in every locked toilet
I've been waiting for you in the Joiners Arms
I know your name
I know your name
I've danced with you
We're all friends here
Silver slugs lined up like bullets
Rolled up twenties, they disappear
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and stutter-free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
Friday night I do all the talking
A pint and a fight, the dance floor is mine
Truth serum and limbs that won't listen
Drunken "I love yous", on top of the world
And when it runs out
We're chasing something we'll never catch
And when it runs out
We buy more
A flatness so bleak, I've been bitten by a vampire
A flatness bleaker than the one it replaced
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and stutter-free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
I can charm
I never did you wrong
But it makes a better song
Than you were off and I was on
Your twilight is my dawn
You take too long
I got off, but you go on
Call the nurse
She can stick it in you
Does it hurt to be young and beautiful, like Neil and Jennifer?
You're bitter and depressed
You're faking your own death
Another wasted breath on everything I said
It's better in a song
On
Tell me what you're doing here
and what do you want from me
Why won't you just disappear
have you come to torture me
I see you when I'm dreaming
I feel you when I touch myself
I hate you when I wake up alone
You're still turning me on
I'm forever inside of you
From behind that's my point of view
Either that or I'm hurting you
Like the way you always do
I see you when I'm dreaming
I feel you when I touch myself
I hate you when I wake up alone
You're still turning me on
Getting sick of starting over
On the same
Argument
We could sit around and talk it over
Or take a trip
To clear our minds
At the entrance of Mount Wilson
It's feeling like the right decision
Some times you go outside
To get inside
If I could only hear you say
That you are down but you're ok
We should have said the things we felt
Is it too late
Park the car and hit the trail
The air feels sharp
On our skin
We'll see the snow as it is melting
Spring must be on
Her way again
We didn't see her coming for us
I guess that's mother nature's way
Sometimes you go outside
To get inside
If I could only hear you say
That you are down but you're ok
We should have said the things we felt
Is it too late
Trapped beneath the wall of snow
You're only ten
Feet away
Silence has a way of speaking
Only now
Do we understand
If I could only hear you say
That you are down but you're ok
We should have said the things we felt
If it's a problem
I want you to stay with me tonight
I'll understand you
It's my only claim to expertise
And if you attack me
I'll know it's my fault
And you were right
Isn't it a shame that you were right?
Every time you wake up in your skin
You simply have to put some motion in
If it's a problem
I know we can make it all work out
I'll understand you
Even when you try and fake me out
C'mon collapse now
It's the time when everything comes out
In the time when everything is out
You know you will have to let it out
Even when you try and fake me out
C'mon collapse now
It's the time when everything comes out
In the time when everything is out
You know you will have to let it out
I should have known that you would be somebody
Who would take me back to school
Everything I've known is suddenly in question
When I start to share it with you
I should have seen that you would be the kind of girl
Who'd make my mind up for me
Everything I've thought is making no sense to me
When I started to see it your way
When I started to see it your way
Are you bringing me down
Or are you making me more then I am?
Are you breaking me down
Or are you building me up to your plans?
I can't get along without you
But girl, you make it hard to
Live my life in peace when
I'm so damn busy changing
I can't get along without you
But girl you make it hard to
Live my life in peace when
I'm so damn busy changing
I should have known that you would be somebody
Who would take me back to school
Everything I've known is suddenly in question
When I start to share it with you
I should have seen that you would be the kind of girl
Who'd make my mind up for me
Everything I thought is making no sense to me
When I started to see it your way
When I started to see it your way
Are you bringing me down
Or are you making me more then I am?
Are you breaking me down
Or are you building me up to your plans?
I can't get along without you
But girl, you make it hard to
Live my life in peace when
I'm so damn busy changing
I can't get along without you
But girl, you make it hard to
Live my life in peace when
I'm so damn busy changing
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
I'm on the line, pick up
I need to hear your voice
What you're doing? Pick up
I wanna talk you back to sleep
We can work this out
Darling if you want to
I know we cannot touch
But we gotta try to
Darling if you want to
Darling if you want to
I'm on the line, pick up
I need to hear your voice again
What you're doing? Pick up
I wanna talk you back to sleep
In the daytime
Distraction's easy
In the evening
You're under my skin
We can work this out
Darling if you want to
I know we cannot touch
But we gotta try to
Darling if you want to
Darling if you want to
Darling if you want to
Darling if you want to
I know it hurts too much
But I'm gonna pull through
Just pick up
Who are you when you wake up?
There are no calls so hang up
We've got our motivators
Who's on a list of waiters
Your sister says John
Do you plan to deliver?
She calls me up drunk
And her voice gives me shivers
When your city's on fire
With the sound of ...
The crowd aghast with privilege
All nice and sacreligious
Your bedroom hides a secret
He's only twenty-three
Your sister says John
Do you plan to deliver?
She calls me up drunk
And her voice gives me shivers
When your city's on fire
With the sound of ...
Your sister says John
Do you plan to deliver?
She calls me up drunk
And her voice gives me shivers
When your city's on fire
With the sound of ...
Lusting for power, money and fame, what is it for?
Ignoring the tragedy in front of our face, while looking for more
Complacent thoughts are ruling our minds
We lack response, all feeling is lost... another sign of the times
We’ve got to change
The way we live in this world
We need to change
Change it
Obsessed with image, envy and greed, it isn’t true
Placing importance on things we don’t need, it’s running us through
Privilege begins where the mind wants to quit
We’ve started with more than we would like to admit
We’ve got to change
The way we live in this world
We need to change
Do it
Can you feel it?
Wonder why we feel so empty inside?
We need to change the way we live in this world
What’s become acceptable is absurd
Where do our priorities lie?
Well I’m disgusted
I need to look at how I walk through this life
I need to recognize that I’m tied to this strife
No more denial
Vital times
We need urgent minds
It’s time to wake up and take a look around
Your violent ways are dragging us down
I’m know I’m not alone, I know you care
Don’t just stand and stare
Take a stand
Or we’re going nowhere, take a stand
Take a stand right now
I’m sick of seeing all this violence
Nobody will stand up or say a word
They just wait in silence
It’s time for us to be heard
Take a stand
Or we’re going nowhere, take a stand
Take a stand
I want to see us take a stand for what’s right
Us versus them, but there will be no more fights
We have to take matters into our own hands
Rebuild and begin again
It’s time that we understand
All of us, together we can wake up
And take a look around
Blessed be the almighty creator !
You must be wise, think twice
Inna their babylon city of vice
Where all hypocrites and parasites try their best to
get you down
Youths don't be no fool, know the rules
Or you shall get screwed, rude rude
Rastafari na go fall inna the dark side
Mount Zion is our direction
I am a suburb politician
Sharing my views with the old or young ones
Everyone wants to know the right direction
Rasta is the key to holy Mount Zion
A suburb politician
Sharing my views with the old or young ones
Everyone wants to know the right direction
Rasta is the key to holy Mount Zion
The gap gets wide between rich and poor
Empty bellys suffer hunger like never before
So me ask Jah why nuff love remain silent
Cause them no like to hear the youth express them
talents
Just while the whole a dem the heathens and the pagans
nah care the part speaking of the fire of the judgement
Me beg the youth fi stand firm and valiant
leave all pressions, check Jah commandments
And be not like them all those worshippers of evil
Rasta show the right example !
A suburb politician
Sharing my views with the old or young ones
Everyone wants to know the right direction
Rasta is the key to holy Mount Zion
A suburb politician
Sharing my views with the old or young ones
Everyone wants to know the right direction
Mount Zion is my destination
I-Man a come to defend
Your own rights of expressions my friends
The liberties of Likkle children
Babylon will take that away from you without a share
And there is no doubt, deep down ina me rasta mind
That some day we shall see the sun shine
Leaving all troubles behind
Da one ya named :
Mr Vice, Mr Cheque, Mr Crook or Mr Bad
And that's the only choice humble people them have
Sit up on them weak and them sit up on their back
Now listen to the words that the humble them a chat
Soon rasta tell you babylon system a go drop
Awarding the gift from the father on top
A suburb politician
Sharing my views with the old or young ones
Everyone wants to know the right direction
Rasta hold the key to holy Mount Zion
So just be wise, think twice
Inna their babylon city of vice
Where all hypocrites and parasites try their best to
get you down, oh no
Don't be no fool, know the rules
Or you shall get screwed, rude rude
Rastafari na go fall inna the dark side
I can't stand to see you sad
I can't bear to hear you cry
If you can't tell me what you need
All I can do is wonder why
Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you
After all you've done for me
All I really want to do
Is take the love you brought my way
And give it all right back to you
Someday, someway
Someday, someway yeah yeah
Someday, someway
Maybe you'll understand me
You've taken everything from me
I've taken everything from you
I'll love you for my whole life through
Now after all you've done for me
All I really want to do
Is take the love you brought my way
And give it all right back to you
Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway maybe you'll understand me
You've taken everything from me
I've taken everything from you
I'll love you for my whole life through
I can't stand to see you sad
I can't bear to hear you cry
If you can't tell me what you need
All I can do is wonder why
Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah yeah
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you
Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah yeah
Someday, someway
Maybe you'll understand me
Someday, someway oh!
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway
What did you say?
I heard soluble words
They flew out of your face
Then fell back to earth
Inaudible sounds
Get carried away
Can't you tell that I know your game
You've got nothing to say
Is there something you can tell me
That could make me hear the call
Everything I've heard you spill
Is sleepier than Seconal
How can i pretend to think
That what you say is meaningful
Every time I look inside
There's nothing but an empty hole
What did you say?
I heard questionable sounds
They dropped out of your mouth
Then fell to the ground
What are you fighting for?
What could it be?
I don't know, but I don't think you'll mind
All the extra money
Is there something you can tell me
That could make me hear the call
Everything I've heard you spill
Is sleepier than Seconal
How can i pretend to think
That what you say is meaningful
Every time I look inside
There's nothing but an empty hole
What did you say?
I heard questionable sounds
They flew out of your face
Then dropped to the ground
Is there something you can tell me
That could make me hear the call
Everything I've heard you spill
Is sleepier than Seconal
How can i pretend to think
That what you say is meaningful
Every time I look inside
There's nothing but an empty hole
Is there something you can tell me
That could make me hear the call
Everything I've heard you spill
Is sleepier than Seconal
How can i pretend to think
That what you say is meaningful
Every time I look inside
There's nothing but an empty hole
An empty hole
Can't afford to let you down
There's nothing here but broken sound
I'll leave the tape beside your door
On my way home
Can't afford to let you down
There's nothing here but broken sound
I'll leave the tape beside your door
On my way home
Can't afford to let you down
There's nothing here but broken sound
I'll leave the tape beside your door
Tell me about your planet's air
Can I breathe in, or should I dare?
Way down beneath your clouds
Will it be dry or will I drown?
I'm gonna slingshot around your star
You'll stretch my gravity too far
You're gonna spin me off my mark
You'll bend my molecules too far
What is it like walking on your ground?
Will I feel light or a thousand pounds?
Way down beneath your sea
Will it be clear or nowhere to see?
I'm gonna slingshot around your star
You'll stretch my gravity too far
You're gonna spin me off my mark
You'll bend my molecules too far
What is it like walking on your ground?
Will I feel light or a thousand pounds?
Way down beneath your sea
Will it be clear or nowhere to see?
I'm gonna slingshot around your star
You'll stretch my gravity too far
You're gonna spin me off my mark
You'll bend my molecules too far
Slingshot around your star
You'll stretch my gravity too far
You're gonna spin me off my mark
You'll bend my molecules too far
Slingshot around your star
It’s time we stop and think about the silence inside of us
It’s our hesitence that’s always holding us back
I’m thinking of all those times, thinking about the stories
This silence inside of us, it’s inside of us
Standing on the outside looking in with so much regret
This resentment has been building up and I want to live honestly
And now you want to know the truth? i’ve always kept it inside
The pain of the years - it’s destroying our lives
I’m thinking of all those times, thinking about the stories
This silence inside of us, its inside of us
You left me all alone when you said this bond would never break
You left me hanging, left me to dry despite all the faith i had in you
You let me down
You left me alone after all that you had promised...
You said this bond would never break
This silence inside of us, it’s inside of us
Lord of all lord
King of all king
Emperor selassie I
Rastafari I haile I
Show your love black people
Sign no contract in the night
If you know that the time’s not right for you to-oooooo
Cause no contact with the evil
Cause the evil will always try hard to tell you
In some time he does it will come using eas’
So remember ano sign fi you please
And I will test who dem see
All my black colored people
This one goes out to you, you an you-uuuuu
Come on and wake up now
Let us build something strong
Come on and get up and show them something that’s
totally new-wwwww
We sell up a black stiver city dat dem gona spreads di
bad,
di toughest, di roughest, di most, most, most blessed
of ****
Come on selection of star
Rising and coming star
Get away killing stars
Shooting a superstar
Who dem want ah coming star-rrrr …. Star-rrrr
Sign no contracts in the night
If you know that the time’s not right for you to-ooo
Have no contact with the evil
I'm melting, I can't feel a thing
I'm falling through an open door
I should have stayed where it was safe
I can't imagine what's in store
All I see
Is everything I've wished I could be
I suppose
I never really tried to let go
The silent flame, the shifting skin
The patterns in the fragile wall
I can't escape, this vision burns
It drags me through forbidden halls
All I see
Is everything I've wished I could be
I suppose
I never really tried to let go
Everything is starting to make sense now
I can feel the fear subside
All my questions seem to find their answers
I can see, it's looking fine
I can feel
(Everything is starting to make sense now)
The fear inside of me starts to subside
(I can feel the fear subside)
I can see
(All my questions seem to find there answers)
The clouds right by me, start to recede
I'm lost in a shapeless sky
It's a dream, I know
I'm adrift in your naked eye
Nobody knows
I want your distraction
I need your reaction
I know you can't take this
I don't want to make you loveless
You're the life that I cannot find
But I try to know
A little love and it's ok
You've got a right to know
I want your distraction
I need your reaction
I know you can't take this
I don't want to make you love-less
I want your distraction
I need your reaction
I know you can't take this
I don't want to make you love-less
I want your reaction
I need your reaction
I know you can't take this
Stop searching, sliding alone
I know you're breathing on your own
Star patterns, burned in your side
With ice melting, you'll break in tonight
No way, there's no way
You'll ever see what slipped through your fingers
No chance, there's no chance
I guess I'm tired, making up your mind for you
So tired
Making it seem real for you
So tired
Wishing I could change for you
You could be the perfect impostor
Try to pass it off real
You can take yourself anywhere you like
But you'll always be there
You can't escape what you carry in yourself
Try hard but it's just a show
Every time you conspire to fool yourself
You'll live but will you have a smile
Oh no, you're in the light again
Too late, you're not ready for yourself
Alright, you're on the stage again
Too bad, your mask isn't fully cured
Oh no, you're in the light again
Too late, you're not ready for yourself
Alright, you're on the stage again
Too bad, your mask isn't fully cured
Oh no, you're in the light again
Too late, you're not ready for yourself
Alright, you're on the stage again
Stop, yes, stop, go
You got more trouble than I've ever known
But it's alright and succeeding
That's the kinda talk I need today, you tell me
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop, yes, I can fly
But condition's anesthetized
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop, go, let me know
I'll take direction from your paper soul
(You got a paper thin soul)
I fell down on your clues
You got me tripping on your swing set blues
This is the kinda shit I need to drop
But it's alright but now I can fly, you tell me
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop yes, I can fly
But condition's anesthetized
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop go, let me know
I'll take direction from your paper soul
(You got a paper thin soul)
Soul
Soul
Soul
Making the rounds, I come upon
The history of your greatest bombs
Nothing is safe when I'm in your mind
I'll take the past and make it mine, you tell me
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop yes, I can fly
But condition's anesthetized
(You got a paper thin soul)
Stop go, let me know
I'll take direction from your paper soul
(You got a paper thin soul)
You got a paper thin soul
You got a paper thin soul
You got a paper thin soul
Did I exchange a look with you?
Before we said hello
My mind is searching for a place
To rest my eyes on
Related circumstances
Trade a joke or two
And all I'm thinking is
I wanna know you
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
You're edging closer to my space
I'm feeling more unsure
But the fear I'm feeling
Is making me want more
I can't explain this paradox
Or why it feels so right
As you open
Your bedroom door
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
If I get to feel you
I won't let you go
We shy away from where everyone stands
We choose our path against your command
We speak up when you have nothing to say
Our voice will be heard another way
This movement is alive, the foundation is cracked
Being involved only serves to distract
When words are so broad, the effort so thin
It’s hard to keep from giving in
Generations
Come and go with no means to react
Generations
This means so much more we must take it back
We’ve come here to make our mark
We’re searching for the light in the dark
Corrupted ideals are lost on me
Truth can be found if only we seek
Something’s distracted the path
No longer do what we can
We need to react
This generation
Generations
Come and go with no means to react
Generations
This means so much more let’s take it back
There’s no more revolution inside these walls
What happened to the urgency that once filled these halls?
Things have been diluted, they don’t have a thing to say
Everyone is gonna like her
Everyone is gonna make her feel at home
I wanted to restore her
Make her feel like the way it did before
But that could never happen
Never happens to the people I have known
I hope she can accept this
I hope she's gonna feel at home
Because I don't know
If it's what she wants
Because I don't know
If she knows herself
Because I don't know
Everyone is gonna like her
Everyone is gonna make her feel at home
I wanted to restore her
Make her feel like the way it did before
But I can't let this drown me
There are times when you have to let it go
I hope she can forgive me
I hope she's gonna feel at home
Because I don't know
If it's what she wants
Because I don't know
If she knows herself
Because I don't know
Because I don't know
If it's what she wants
Because I don't know
If she knows herself
I want someone to get it on
you make it fat it on
I want you know this piece, piece can you know
You wanna make it let me know
to catch , to get to come on
I wat you know that I need to get someone to get someone
I wanna people sing
I want you know that I bet again what I can spend now
Don't wanna people sing
I want you know it's time to get it on
I feel it , you feel it , go feel it , I wanna feel
I feel it I want you make it big now
Lucy doesn't move
Lucy doesn't give her opinion
Lucy doesn't see
And Lucy doesn't please anybody but me
Hands in the fire!
Your life is about to expire
Mole on the mind
I've got a present for you
No one came by today
Your house is beginning to smell
I have no vocation
'Cause nothing ever comes to my mind
And I don't have no message or nothing to offer
I just wanna be on
Disembodied voices in my filth-covered brain
And an outburst of hysteria
You can't tell if she is getting laid or dying
I won't stop till I get caught and ready for press
And all venereal sitcoms and Soap-Oprah diseases
I need validation
From whatever makes me feel I exist
Ain't got nothing to lose or nothing to win
When I'm falling in love
I'm a wild beast in the playroom
I'm the lonely vulture behind the screen
The World is a catchpenny show
Jenny Jones is the truth I know
Sex with you is just like TV
You're a stiff, an entertainer
They'd eat their hearts out in Las Vegas
Just wanna be on
I need validation
From whatever makes me feel I...
And I don't have no message or nothing to offer
I just wanna be...
...on
Just wanna be on my baby
I wanna be on for you
Ant Mozart Khadaffi 2001
