[Chorus: Jill Scott]
Can you speak your words of bedtime
I was just saying to myself the other day
Most of believing the magician
But you’re bewitching
Because of this I must say
I (I)
I (oh I)
I
Appreciate what you give to me
Yeah (I)
I (oh I)
I
Appreciate what you give to me

[Verse 1: Common]
People say I got soul look at all the records I hold
The lives I’ve affected, connect and control
With me in your basement, your mama got blown
I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles
Through me the black experience is glorious told
From a school that’s old bold, so I rock gold
And platinum, so cats I hold notes and cash for them
On streets I rap for them, in ghettos I blast for them
Mash with them, at the party and all
Peep the universal language that’s embodying all
Put the Billie Holiday, Bob Marley in y’all
Y’all feel most high when I be in y’all
System, with the rhythm I up jump the boogie
Shame I rely on record labels to push me
Since the bush, I been y’all way to escape
Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes
I am music

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
You can feel me all over alive, I help culture survive, I opened the eyes of many
Styles y’all wrote in the skies, with your lows and highs, open your mind to hear me
In the streets I beat cops and obsolete
On every station it’s hot you can’t stop my heat
I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat
On what’s going on today yo, I gots to speak
I take the stand, yo you could feel me bam
Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan
Live I be killing it man
For how long I survived yo I’m realer than man
Got a soft side but I’m still a man
For me women cry and children dance, I’m trying to eat
I could’a got a mil and ran
But like Sly for the fam still I stand
I am music

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
I been here since the beginning
Beginning of time yo beginning of time
Deep in the mind of the ancient ones
Everybody love me like they do the sun
I shine at times yo at times I’m dark
You can’t categorize me, my mind’s a art
Inside my heart, it ain’t about climbing charts
I’m the one you roll with when your ride is smart
The change that came, the change that comes
I change with chords and I kick it with drums
Get blow with horns and did it on the one
Riffed for guitars, for the Lord I sung
Spun around the world at parties and weddings
Wherever I go I create the setting
You know me from lessons or your pops collections
Whether whole or half stepping I’m a blessing
Yo I am music

[Chorus 2X]

I came a long way
From out of nowhere
I stand before you
All alone
Like a wolf’s cry in the distance
I heard the calling
Of your soul
Oh… I hear you cryin’


CHORUS:

With your love
Show me how to live
‘Cause you are made of me
And I am made of you
With your life
Show me how to give
You are made of me
And I am made of you.

We’ll walk together
Through the fire
Through the darkness
To the sun
Like two raging rivers full of passion
At the ocean
We are one
Oh… I hear you cryin’


CHORUS


I am made of you
You are made of me
And everything you are
Is what I’m meant to be
I am made of you
You are made of me
And everything I am
Is what you made of me
Oh… I hear you crying
Oh…Through the darkness
To the light…
With your love
Show me how to live
‘Cause you are made of me
And I am made of you
With your life
Show me how to give
You are made of me
With your heart
Show me what is true
‘Cause you are made of me
And I am made of you
With your soul
Walk my spirit through
You are made of me
And I am made of you
Oh… I hear you crying
Through the darkness
To the light….

Yeah, when I’m in the sky – I’m too far away.
Gotta kick in to feel it.
Terminate another no one is my brother, yeah!
The sun burns on me
Well, hell is home tomb – city – stone – nail me to another cross,
yeah!
Pour the gasoline, yeah burn the fucker clean.
Tell me who’d she coo I want her!
Like a suicide flex – hit the run and hide!
Tell me who’d she coo shine the body!
Yeah…Omega-man say, “It’s all gone away, I cannot believe it.”
Well I am the one a god with a gun [well] I am Legend!!
Planet – grave – hard – kill the slave – nail me to another cross,
yeah!
Pour the gasoline, yeah burn the fucker clean.
Tell me who’d she coo I want her!
Like a suicide flex – hit the run and hide!
Tell me who’d she coo shine the body!
[A] vampire [a] sharpshooter “O” I said, “A messenger for the damned”
I got a holy gun – come a loaded to kill everything that I am.
Well I am the only [god?] one they can – find.
Pour the gasoline, yeah burn the fucker clean.
Tell me who’d she coo I want her!
Like a suicide flex – hit the run and hide!
Tell me who’d she coo shine the body!

Tired of dust and dirt to clean
This place once loved, now makes me sick
I’ve got to get away
I’ve passed the places of my youth
Torn out pages from a well-read book
I dream awhile – but I leave it anyway

But I can still remember when
I could still laugh and call you friend
And only you –

You used to talk so wild and free
Now you can’t remember what you used to be
You’ve lost the will

You could never be wrong
No, you were never that strong

Some are listening
Some are doing
Some are wasting away
I am leaving

Some cannot hear
Some are waiting
Most are writhing away

Torn between the deep blue sea
From a place on earth that appeals to me
Hell I can’t swim anyway
But not for me but those I leave
Think of them as dying leaves that may bloom again

I’m leaving

I am just a girl, one among the others, nothing much to say
Plain and simple girl, not a special type in any way
Just one look, and you will surely see
That the truth is nobody is me
It’s an evil world that has only made me a girl


I am just a girl, not the kind of woman men would like to meet
Just another girl no-one ever looks at in the street
But today, I can’t believe it’s true
When you smiled and whispered I love you
Darling I could see, I was meant to be your girl


It’s a funny feeling when you get to love someone
And thinking that he’ll never look your way
But then he says he loves you, and life has just begun
It’s so much more than any words can say


I am just a girl, not the kind of woman men would like to meet
Just another girl no-one ever looks at in the street
But today, I can’t believe it’s true
When you smiled and whispered I love you
Darling I could see, I was meant to be your girl


La la la la la, la la la la la-la, la la la la laaa
La la la la la, la la la la la-la, la la laaa
But today, I can’t believe it’s true
When you smiled and whispered I love you
Darling I could see, I was meant to be your girl

[Sole ]
Well its 7:45 oh yeah
we’ll see who’s the bigger man
Other dead men walking 4:00p.m. I heard a dead man talking
He said its inconsequential
for get it its nice
I’ll always get into harlots Ville with this knife getaway
I don’t want to buy you a drink
forget to piss on your pride little girl
Yeah stepped on your feet
you want to eat that dirty white how what ya looking at
The cap
bartender tender me some sex on the beach
before I reach out and impediment your speech
Once I get’em in my reach
unprecedented impeach
He saw a double crossed dance illuminated by disco lights
Unseen unspoken
in a scene provoking a thought provoking scene
in a smoke scene interrupted by intervening disco lights
aint nobody dancing
aint no music everybody still
I can only see one man
he looks good enough to kill
so I muscle my way through dustless of imposers
10:30 to 10 feet away 5 fingers surround the object of entrapment
I don’t need to see his eyes
I feel his jack then his shirt then his skin then his kidneys then out
then blood then blood then blood
then neck then blood then blood then blood chest
Then I see his girl watching over him
like she is gonna cry his little ass back to life
This is my only way I know
so I must remove the knife
We eye to eye now
goodbye to his life fool
I told you I would get my five dollars back tonight

[Slug]
Another night (night)
Another dollar (dollar)
Another crowd I enlisted to make holler (now scream)
Another I really wish this crowd was a little bit larger
Excuse me mister promoter
could I bother you
For a couple of bottles
of premium placed on the stage
For me and my brethren you know beverages
Intoxication balance and leverage
Guessing this is that point where I grab the mic and make my point
kick my flow make’em say hoooo
blow the lid off the joint
ahem: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
and then they befriended I love it when this situation happens
This the type of crowd that build self esteem
Come 10:30 is was I finally felt that sting..
(commotion. Yo yo yo yo (hes got a knife)
yo what the fucks going on right here,
calm the fuck down calm that shit down (that’s blood)
check check get’em up get off get off)

I shed another blood you knew I would
I feel you should adapt
can’t run forever trapped death stepped up to
shed another blood you knew I would
I feel you should adapt
can’t run forever trapped death stepped up to

-SORRY JUST ALCOHOL

[Dose]
Thanks anyhow its just been one of those days alcohol only
How can you not sell fucking cigarettes at a bar excuse me
but I wonder where those two wild women are
I’ve gotten off one minute they’re all ears and big eyes
then they’re wandering off
to bark up the next mans tree EXCUSE ME
thank you Jesus Christ this place is
now that’s a foxy young lady
if only she would put some clothes on (excuse) enough
I’ll just bend and stay in the mean market.. humm humm humm
who are these that shits pretty dope
but I can hardly hear his vocals and the bass is too loud
Actually this kid is nasty
to bad I can’t hear the words (excuse me)
damn like he couldn’t have just walked pass oh and the stare too
See everybody want to show you
how big their and how little they think
I be if it
is that the chick Jim was trying to get on she’s alright
man its hot as balls in here why did I wear this
(screaming) he’s? got a knife is that blood
Oh my God I’ve never been this
that’s blood he’s dying, gone

[Alias]
Uh uh.. oh my god twisting and turning
what’s that sensation of burning
yearning to witness some spoken words but now I’m learning
but I cant step into the outer limits of my abode

The whole world is my enemy
And I’m a walking target
Two times the Devil
With all the significance
Dragged and raped
For the love of a mob
I can’t stay
Because I can’t be stopped
Eat motherf***ers alive
Who cross us
I know you’re all tired
Of the same ol’ bosses
Let me tell you
How it’s gonna be
I’m gonna kill anyone
Who steps up in
Front of me
Welcome to the
Same ol’ f***in’ scam
Same ol’ sh*t in a dead fad
Everybody wants
To be so hard
Are you real or a second rate
Sports card?
They all lost their dad
Or their wife just died
They never got to go outside
Shut up
Nobody gives a f***
It doesn’t change
The fact that you suck

(We are)
The anti-cancer
(We are)
The only answer
Stripped down
We want you dead
But what’s inside of me
You’ll never know
(We are)
Bipolar gods
(We are)
You know what we are
My life was always sh*t
And I don’t think
I need this anymore

Now I’m not pretty
And I’m not cool
But I’m fat and
I’m ugly and proud
So f*** you
Standing out is
The new pretension
Streamline the (sic)ness
Half-as*ed aggression
You gotta see it to believe it
We all got conned
All the mediocre sacred cows
We spawned
Put your trust in the misson
We will not repent
This is our religion

(We are)
The anti-cancer
(We are)
The only answer
Stripped down
We want you dead
But what’s inside of me
You’ll never know
(We are)
Bipolar gods
(We are)
You know what we are
My life was always sh*t
And I don’t think
I need this anymore

I am hated
You are hated
We are hated

Everything sucks and
I can prove it
Everybody dies, shuffle on
Remove it
Individuals, indispensable
I’m the paradox deity vessel
The other side
Holds no secret
But this side is done
I don’t need it
Before you go
You should know
You’re breaking down
You’ll be rotten be the time
You’re underground

(We are)
The anti-cancer
(We are)
The only answer
Stripped down
We want you dead
But what’s inside of me
You’ll never know
(We are)
Bipolar gods
(We are)
You know what we are
My life was always sh*t
And I don’t think
I need this anymore

(We are)
The source of conscience
(We are)
Distorted sentiments
There’s only one thing left
And I can’t leave
Until it’s stated
(We are)
The absolute
(We are)
Controlling you
They’re closing in
I can’t escape
I am hated

I am going to like it here.
There is something about the place,
An encouraging atmosphere,
Like the smile on a friendly face.

There is something about the place,
So caressing and warm it is,
Like the smile on a friendly face,
Like a port in the storm it is.
So caressing and warm it is,
All the people are so sincere,
Like a port in the storm it is,
I am going to like it here.


All the people are so sincere,
There’s especially one I like.
I am going to like it here,
It’s the father’s first son I like.
There’s especially one I like,
There is something about his face.
It’s the father’s first son I like,
He’s the reason I love the place.


There is something about his face,
I would follow him anywhere.
If he goes to another place …
I am going to like it there.


There is something about his face,
I would follow him anywhere.
If he goes to another place …
I am going to like it there.

Once I was a prisoner
Lost inside myself
With the world surrounding me
Wandering through the misery
But now I am free…

You gave me a breath of life
Unclouded my eyes
Wieth sweet serenity
Lighting a ray of hope for me…
And now I am free

Free to live
Free to laugh
Free to soar
Free to shine
Free to give
Free to love
Free enough to fly

Once I was all so alone
Unsteady and cold
But your love rained down upon me
Washing away uncertainty

But now
I am free

all the days are long
till the baby comes
god will take all fear
if you say this clear

i am enough for myself
i don’t need anything else
i am enough for myself

i am dead, am i?
i am dead, am i?
i am enough for myself