Sacred Texts (Original Version) Lyrics

It's been a long time

And y'all never heard of us, that's fine

I've been Vibin' since Tribe was Marauding through Midnights

A follower of Styles of the Fellowship, Free

To create me through mixtape spacing

And I remember when a Resurrection saved me

My Sense was in Common with this fool I never seen

From a city that I swear I know I've never been to

But it rained plus he felt the pain like me

Influenced by PE & BDP

Ice Cube, Roy Ayers, to Bob Marley

My headphones then, were my only company

I was awkward socially, never fit into a peer group

Imagine growing up with only music there to hear you

It's only there to heal you, piercing to the root

It can hurt while it moves you and shock you to life

What else would I do ya'll, if I didn't write, record & perform songs?

Options are long gone and far out of sight

Cuz I remember back what? 1995, "it's a suicide"

Felt like it's Me Against The World plus I was Ready To Die

Scribing with my first pad, pen

Listening to Pac when they sniped him

Damn

Now I'm still fighting, reciting & rocking with a mic in palm

It's like seven years gone and I can't stay calm

They still got me feeling Trapped like a walking time bomb

And I need this now more than I ever have

Call it hip-hop, rock, soul, blues or the jazz

Or music of the future

Fuck bringing it back

We heart chasing

From mixtape making

To basement cathedrals

We drew sacred texts on these walls

And respond whenever, wherever the spirit calls

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

And I don't even have a minute to hate

There's too much to do for justice now

So I dedicate this one for love

Like Mamie Till-Bradley did for her son

Knowing that these lynchings are still going on

And on me, I can't even fathom that focused calmness just yet

Like a single mother gets when poverty tightens it's grip

And her kids don't understand what having no money is

When a reflex to live is all that you know you got

Dancing cuz your spirits caught

You'd rather body rock til your body rots

Than to feel a world without music

The blues don't stop

Another child gets shot, and the cops are the culprits

A woman gets raped

And the number one suspect could be her best friend

Many men don't comprehend

We didn't start the fire

This violence created us

Yet we still perpetuate it

And I don't know who to trust

I don't believe in no fantasy R&B kind of love

I don't need to helplessly fall in to fear of what?

Life what be like without limits, empty traditions

Out of date definitions from a colonizer's tongue

Dig it?

I'm building here, specifically, Northwest Pacific speech

Southend to CD regions, reaching peeps

Wake from they sleep singing this melody, like yo

God believes in me, do I believe in me?

Yes I believe in me, nobody else could set me free

Set em free

God believes in me, do I believe in me?

Yes I believe in me, nobody else could set me free

Set em free

Heart chasing

From mixtape making

To basement cathedrals

We drew sacred texts on these walls

And respond whenever, wherever the spirit calls

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

They talk to us then walk through us

How could I love you?

How could I love you?