Distant Wilderness

Why is it you fail, to see a man

In the same hour, that his kin come grinnin'?

In another code, fell asleep, party mode, tryin' to come up

From the ashes that defy your lift, listen up

Ladies seem sweet, the ocean meets the mountain peaks

Stone-walker, side-walker, watch those loose lips, wall street

Numbers set by stock movers, buy my tip so I can touch

Not for no print size, plate saint, white wasted H2O

Four coats will make it glaze

Beams rooted like dogwood, between the pine, wind

Twenty-fo' stores with malt for sale, still fetchin' water

Out the well, help em size, find the grind, find the times

Where the times weighed as hard as [Incomprehensible]

Find me shoes, baby daddy

Rico daddy, he didn't break the TV

So why should I weep, man gon' bye, see you when my light blow

Got more good than dirt to throw, and I won't pull

Between the halo, and a fork-pitch suffocated by my rhymes

Worship high, it's just another name

Take your time and concentrate on it

Take a stand and make your hand a fist

We got a reason to resist

The mortal orbit your nadir, don't cross the fade

Chillin' in Decatur, where it's greater, secure streets

In the hood late at nights, dippin' fine

Hard not to be slippin', if they come, I won't run

When it's time, I ain't trippin', I got my date

And you got yours too, I see, the record sales soar

After the death, of this creator, genocidal, tendencies

When they mention he, who listens, to unseen hand

Cappin' the faces of the young black man, when they sing

Knowin' that we godly, got to keep it right

With my people 'cause I'm equal no matter, how much I make

I can't escape fate, the date as I await, as I await, I can't fake

Can't fake, I can't fake, I'm true with it

A duffel for the cash, platinum within myself from another earth

Spill, Nina, tea leaf, your very, existence is considered a privilege

Buck up, and they can't, be revoked pay your taxes, uhh, snake eyes

Strapped with flaws, still iterant to a lot of laws

Man made, but that's a dot, everybody

From the east coast don't wear it back home, whatchu think?

Gettin' they thoughts mixed negative, after reassurances

I say a prayer, plus if I, entertained them

It's easy to commit, hard to resist

And once we cross that line segment, not even our producers

Can bring us back, eyeballs peeled

Eardrums opened, egos stripped stroked, another low blow

Delivered to the hip-hop culture, uhh

Industry consists of thieveries, prostitutes

And folgers if somethin' bigger than us, past the blue

Told us that it wasn't a heaven for G's

Then we do this, continue your devilish deeds

I mean activities, that just show, that it's a hell

For jacks, independent, but you distributed by your masters

Labels still a slave, but you just get to eat at

The white man's table, lookin' like Gable Gunther

On the Guinness Book of World Records, God didn't like ugly

And he wasn't too fond of cute either

A climate of caution, a climate of caution in effect

Worship high, it's just another name

Take your time and concentrate on it

Take a stand and make your hand a fist

We got a reason to resist

Wherever I am, you can feel god is present, in the midst of darkness

If you spark up bet somebody gonna see it

It is necessary for me to speak these words now

Another day here hasn't been promised to me

Don't you agree that you never fail when you try

I'm willing to die but first I am willing to live

And I over stand that this will be a lifelong sacrifice

In order to reveal you gon' have to destroy

And if you ain't thinkin' right you damn sure can't act right

Somebody raise your fist and let me know I'm not alone

Revolution, doesn't mean fightin' in these streets

And it ain't gonna be no revolution without the women

And, it ain't gonna be no future without the children

And, it ain't gonna be no children without the men

And, you can't have no love without the trust

And no, trust can come without communication

And you can't communicate if you ain't got shit to say

You can't teach about what you, been deceived about too

Any book you read is still limited education

You gonna have to talk to God personally and time is short

And, He's on His way, and I will receive

A grateful word for what I've done

And this is all that really matters to me

In time you will see what I told you was true

And I ain't have to rhyme to say that to you

I ain't got to rhyme to say it to you, it's true

Worship high, it's just another name

Take your time and concentrate on it

Take a stand and make your hand a fist

We got a reason to resist

We got a reason to resist

We got a reason to resist

Resist, resist, resist

We got a reason to resist