Woke Up in a Melody Lyrics

Chicago's golden slam poet is back in motion

Knocking speakers in the house like Nancy Pelosi

I've been floating in the potion of blackest roses

In between micro dosing and keeping it sober

Stay modest in the face of the greediest posers

Trynna coat the kids' walls with CD's and posters

City bleeding and I'm fiending to seam it with culture

I'm the big brother baby the family closer

I was born with the form of the rock of Gibraltar

Can't contain all the pain Chicago'll Hulk ya

Too much fiction in the picture from Johnny Travolta's

Need a refund for the reruns that they sold ya

I'm the high to the mid that they lowed ya

I dance salsa while I listen to Sosa

Be ya self even when you not supposed to

And fuck em if they wining like mimosa

I woke up in a melody

Free don't leave

I woke up in a melody

Free don't leave

I don't know what's happening on the other side

I cannot waste no day no way running out of time

The sky turns grey and the sun still rains on me

Had to meditate let the melody sang through me

I been training like Bruce Wayne when Bane broke his back

Same city Saba, Mick, and Chano learned to rap

Where they glorify, gentrify, justify homicide

Sitting in my living room deciding if I live or die

Staring at a picket white fence

Damn Gina bought a Beamer and a Benz

Talked to this oracle he gave me 2 cents

He said why you think they call it Aber(crime)bie and Fitch

They wouldn't save yo ass if you was lying in a ditch

And you spent your last dollar and you sold ya last kid

It's just the biz

I don't take it personal

I don't really got no money

All I got is words for you

Stuck between a rock

And being what you want me to

Pressure on my follicles

I might move my longitude

It's peachy till they auction you

Or offer you no offer that ain't awful or

A coffin that'll cost you like two of you

I woke up in a melody

Free don't leave

I woke up in a melody

Free don't leave

I don't know what's happening on the other side

I cannot waste no day no way running out of time

The sky turns grey and the sun still rains on me

Had to meditate let the melody sang through me