Here I Am (Remastered 2021) Lyrics

Well here I am

In the middle of an open hand

My feet are rooted in an upright stand

What's my plan

I feel the fingers closing in

I got enlightened by the chosen man

A little frightened by my foes and fans

I'm still recitin' doing shows with bands

Hold my can knowing that I'll float again

Well it's time to face the law

You shouldn't have done it now I'm breaking down the wall

No time to run around lurking through the hall

I'm gonna hunt 'em down winter spring or fall

Even the summer sound all because of y'all

My name's a number now if you see what I saw

Then you would wonder how he decides to call

And pull me under while he was walking tall

I run a sign

Glistening sensory blaze sets my heart

Glistening from antihistamines crumb chop chop from a plum tree top

Club house for one

I elect protect select none, hey!

What's-a matter you, hey!

Why do you look so sad, hey!

It's-a not so bad, hey!

Ah, Shaddap You Face, hey!

What am I now, what am I now

What am I now, a waste of flesh

Mama leave me on a doorstep why don't you

Well that'd best unless you want to see me starve

Look at her dress, her breasts

Life's hard

Here I am

In the middle of an open hand

My feet are rooted in an upright stand

What's my plan

I feel the fingers closing in

I got enlightened by the chosen man

A little frightened by my foes and fans

I'm still recitin' doing shows with bands

Hold my can knowing that I'll float again

Now one for the money and two for the show

Now move to the pickaninny saying flow cat flow

Jump on top of the rhythm and break your mind free

C'mon I want a letter for the fire and me

Say life is temporary it makes him upset

Regret to say the penalty for perjury is death

Everybody picking up on so one play

But I would rather lie that my soul will run fate

I'm bound to the rhythm a drum from my hand

Bow down to the mother in African land

Sounding like our people in love with Tarzan

I'ma tell him I'm a big ole jet black man

Pappy told the folk tale underneath the tree

Pull up on his coattail sitting upon his knee

Said Mandingo your lingo Swahili

Drums are the tongues of the sacred

Learn to stand stern and just don't trust any

Soon you can freely run naked

Parkin' at the wall call darken in the past

Starting at the shortfall right into the grass

Oom shaka laka oom shaka laka wrath

My spear is in the atmosphere in his ass

Allah made the universe the devil made the lie

The devil made the hypocrites and Allah made the sky

The devil got your flesh and bone and Allah got your eye

Allah made the righteousness the devil made the spy

The devil is the infamous and Allah is the high

Allah made the apple tree the devil made the pie

Allah will reveal the truth the devil will deny

So know me not for what I am but know me 'til I die

Here I am

In the middle of an open hand

My feet are rooted in an upright stand

What's my plan

I feel the fingers closing in

I got enlightened by the chosen man

A little frightened by my foes and fans

I'm still recitin' doing shows with bands

Hold my can knowing that I'll float again

You see I'm born a nigga, die a nigga: nothing in between

Who the hell are you to say that I ain't got a dream

Malcolm nigga, Marcus nigga, Martin nigga King

Thievery and grievery is all a nigga seen

Jesse nigga, Bessie nigga, Bubba Willie Green

Monkey and gorilla nigga, mammy was a queen

I'm a nigga, he's a nigga, niggas are supreme

And every time you kill a nigga we become a team

Hey nigga, yeah nigga, say nigga, wassup

Yo while they got you on this tip I'm finna bust a nut

And selling out is wacker

Yo black is getting blacker

You know the truth, I got the proof

The devil is a cracker

Here I am

In the middle of an open hand

My feet are rooted in an upright stand

What's my plan

I feel the fingers closing in

I got enlightened by the chosen man

A little frightened by my foes and fans

I'm still recitin' doing shows with bands

Hold my can knowing that I'll float again