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Guns & Drugs
02:55
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Why would anybody want to be like this?
Who the hell would make a man in this likeness?
Taking up the stand that he’s righteous
A joke being spoke through a throat
Corrupted, turning up the screws on this madness
They spin our lives like a top upon their axis
Ready but unsteady
Yeah, I really need the practice
To choke, tie a rope
Get united, undivided
Entire populations roped into a habit
No escape because it’s woven in the fabric
Bound and shackled to a scheme so elaborate
Broke, loving dope like a ghost
It’s so simple they’re just telling you to say no
Ain’t no poppy fields be growing in the ghetto, though
Shipping symptoms to a sickness that won’t let go
Black like a match
Feel the burning for the batch
Never let another try to smother you
Like when you’re in the gutter being other
Than you ought
It takes a lot of love, a lot of patience
Even if you’re young or if you’re ancient
We should bust it and replace it
Catalogue it and deface it
Weave a Webb of who’s complicit
CIAin’t just gonna quit it
I Mena know just what they did
We’re gonna blow the lid
It’s just the beginning
The world is burning while they’re earning
But, now we’re winning
And the sun is setting
On the sin of sucking
The life from the living
The might from the giving
In the fight for beginnings
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Empire
03:03
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Pick your head up and look at all the faces
The wrong people in all the wrong places
Intentionally pissing on the sacred
If I were me I’d be mad at all the fascists
Popping on a clown mask for corporations
Casting shadows in the fairest of all places
Fuck banks and their predatory papers
Can’t even look us in the eye while they rape us
Give you deficit but never share the surplus
They’re trying to swallow every little bit of me
But, I’m a warrior fighting to be free
And I will be free
They’re trying to swallow every little bit of my hide
Until my very last breath, I’ll fight
To defy Empire
North, West, Southern, and the Eastern
I’m breathing fire can’t you see my teeth burn
They don’t know it now but they’re gonna learn
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WHT PPL
03:03
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White ppl got feelings, too
But they definitely ain’t no better than you
The same sparkle coming off of you is true for me, too.
We’re just ppl living in a skin
Shouting ‘bout the difference in the melanin
Somebody tryin’ to throw the switch again
So let’s not let ‘em
Seen the shepherds digging into you
Firehose pummeling you black & blue
Hanging tree suffocates the justice due
I know you’re feeling like we let you down
Stood around while they beat you down
Saw it all but didn’t make a sound
But, we can’t look ahead if we’re turned around
[We got the]Same insides, same mind
Making light and dark. Not apart
Now is where we are
Rotating around the same old star
Escape from the myths of what we were and why
They’re dividing us by design
Who let the ppl writing history
Build a barricade between you and me?
They try to tell us we ain’t family
but my blood is no enemy
How long we hanging on this precipice?
Face to face with oppressive fists
Identify the proper culprits and put an end to it
Same insides, same mind
Making light and dark. Not apart
Now is what we are
Rotating around the same old star
Escape from the myths of what we were and why
Fight back with all of our might
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Buckle Up
03:52
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Souls playin’ roles poke holes in the stratosphere
High flyin’ minds tryin’ to make it be better here
Keepin’ on course to the source where the force is finded
Blinded by light be reminded
Patterns paint worlds with wands interspacially
Golden Means everything is sided geometrically
Odds in favor of Gods making merrily
Defined and refined - it’s Divine
We’ll be comin’ round the bend instead
Of runnin’ out of tread on the straightaway
(Don’t) turn back. Turn the clock ahead
This present is paced like it was before
But, this time there’s more
Buckle up, baby, for the center of the galaxy
Sun shinin’ brighter ‘cause it’s beamin’ right back at me
Darkness fading like a fog streamin’ out to sea
This forward is toward possibility
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War
03:07
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They say that war is undeniable
A necessary part of life
But, I’m not so sure
Because they’re making profits from their might
While funding both sides of the fight
You know that that ain’t right
They hang a flag above their heads
Next to their trophies on a shelf
But, don’t be fooled by appearances
They have one concern and that’s themselves
They pay no mind to our living hell
Because they got more murder to sell
Collecting claims that they could never take
If love ruled those who habitat
This world, a place where our energies
Should be out into good
Trying to save instead of maim
All of this destruction done in our name
Well, that’s about to change
War is a game that those in power play
But, they write the rules so they never lose
Brush the pieces on the board away
They’re replaceable by millions more
It’s not our cause we’re fighting for
Notice how you’re getting less
Always giving more
But, who the hell is keeping score?
And what for?
Isn’t this war?
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This Time With You
03:25
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I run on all fours. A beast in some worlds
A gross anatomy
Long-lived in limbo, the grace awaits, though
A fate I just can’t shake
There’s an aggregate. It’s definite
A kismetic puzzle where the pieces fit
But, I’m alone with you. All alone with you
I feel fortunate that the way was writ
A little slit, I found another seat to sit
This is where we dance. This is circumstance
No sleep but slumber. Awaking others
To a tale that just won’t end
Ain’t no reason for this rhyme that I’ve been searching for
This time with you is nothing more
Than waiting for this fate to run its course
Standing alone in front of god is what I’m hoping for
This time it’s closer than before
I made it all the way but I’ll wait another day
I’m a delicate, compassionate invertebrate
With skeletal coordinates
Where I’m a stowaway trying to show a way
A defiant sun in the sky at night
Rising when I oughtn’t try to shine the light
Because I’m brighter than what I’m residing in
Always trying to put up a fight
it’s the loving that will move us along
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In A Cage
03:05
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I’m in a cage in a rage.
Wide-eyed, wearied face
Stood straight, subordinate
Better toe the line and know your place
Don’t cross or you get the boss
He’s leadin’ and he’s never lost
I’m all broke, can’t spoke
Captain on a sunk boat with a raincoat
But, I’ve survived worse than this
My faith decides just how it is and so it is.
Fightin’ fire with fire instead of water
You oughtta wake up a weak mind
Gettin’ higher we gotta
Get up and better your brother
‘Cause it’s about time
I miss soft and locks off
Gotta keep my guard at all costs
Handcuffed for standing up
I am we that’s my business
’m strong and switched on
A proud beast with a leash on
Some sons will overcome
It won’t be long until we’re singing our songs
We make up the best of this
Igniters and accomplices that’s who we is
This is what we know
We could end up in a hole
But that’s not the way to go ‘cause
Nothing gets rehabilitated
That’s exactly how these devils played it
Fortune favors foolish fiends who crave it
And would do anything to make it
These hours, days, weeks, and years
These powers made you disappear are gone
And it’s wrong
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Lucky
04:00
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Thinking that your love had passed me by
Wondering aloud if I should’ve fought a better fight
Erasing everything to get it out of my mind
I’m stranded in the place that I end up in everytime
With a firm indifference to the pain
Of learning the wrong way to never doing it again
To be alive is not something you should hide from
At death, you need to know that it meant something
I’m luckier for you
And the thing we tried to do
I like where I’ve been but I love where I’m going to
Itching like skin cancer on the face of the sun
I frown upon the settle down
So I end up with no one
You live, you die, laugh, you cry, donate, deny, why?
You do what’s best for the self inside
Do what’s right because now is nigh
I’m luckier for you
And the things you put me through
I’m grateful, enabled
Engaging the known and the new
I know you really wanna put your hand on my heart
I really wanna tell you I’m sorry we broke apart
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Up In Smoke
02:49
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There’s a feeling that we all should know
It’s the ultimate in letting go
It’ll feed your soul and free your mind
Be food or fuel to the poor and heal the blind
It’ll never ever let you down
Open from the root right up through the ground
There’s no reason for this made up illegality
No one has ever been harmed by this deity
Unlike your pharmacy
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Doug Hawk Easton, Pennsylvania
This is intelligent, inspiring, grooving music that not only makes you think but move, as well. Lyrically topical with a positive message. Comparisons to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai and Steely Dan are accurate but in a purely derivative sense. Hawk has emphatically created his own unique sound. ... more
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Beautiful compositions supported by stellar musicianship. Very progressive -- fans of Brian Blade take note.
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My dear, dear friends make great music. Plus, Jenny is one of my vocal idols.
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