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[00:17.489]She said, betta betta
[00:19.683]Wait, no, that--what--how did she say it?
[00:21.825]She said
[00:23.393]She said betta betta betta betta
[00:25.247]Step on tip tip tip tip tip toe
[00:28.304]I pulled the meat out she like
[00:29.427]You gon' fit all that in this teeny hole?
[00:31.464]I know, i know, i know
[00:32.797]TMI: too much info
[00:34.468]Thats just how i'm feelin, forrealin' with my kinfolk
[00:37.264]Remember, rapping was asking could it all be so simple?
[00:40.477]Sitting there grinning mouth full of crab rangoon
[00:42.593]I am proof there are some people angst can't consume
[00:44.917]And i don't even eat that but the rhyme fit
[00:46.851]I step out the crib like iron giant
[00:48.731]All smiles with a view over they heads
[00:50.900]Sun Ra said most of 'em walking around already dead
[00:53.538]Thats why the gaze avoids the eyes
[00:55.811]To make object
[00:56.882]At this i object
[00:58.266]Abject prospects
[00:59.572]And the map is confused for terrain
[01:01.035]And the map is confused for brain
[01:02.628]And the map is piss-stained
[01:03.961]And the map is actually a paper towel with a Hershey squirt
[01:06.207]If i was a rapper i'd wake up early for work
[01:08.062]I woke up early for work
[01:09.316]I woke up early for work
[01:10.517]I woke up early for work
[01:11.301]I woke up yo and you know what i did?
[01:12.607]I woke up early and i came for
[01:13.495]Something to make a name for
[01:15.089]I woke up early and i - i felt something to feel insane for
[01:17.806]To feel pain for
[01:19.086]And, and, and be rid of all my shame for
[01:20.496]You know what, i came--
[01:21.515]I came to consider direction
[01:22.638]To depict a new reflection
[01:24.232]Written in fingerprints on a mirror
[01:25.355]Just to hear her
[01:26.165]Gaia couldn't be any clearer
[01:27.602]You know you gotta water the root, little fish
[01:29.430]So i came for a reason
[01:30.893]Spreading little indiscriminate treasons no more
[01:32.957]Who could truly keep the score
[01:34.602]And keep their wits?
[01:35.778]Ah, each tally like shackles on their wrists
[01:38.338]And fear persists
[01:39.226]So i came for
[01:40.611]Something to teach me joy
[01:42.491]Something to deploy
[01:42.909]When time is bleak
[01:44.242]Perhaps its dark that i seek
[01:45.809]But its a strange fascination
[01:47.246]In a strange, fascist nation
[01:49.100]And I came for my mother
[01:51.086]My father, my siblings, my niggas, my lovers, my--
[01:53.593]You know what? i came for my...
[01:54.534]Myself
[01:55.631]So i woke up early for work
[01:56.911]And i came for
[01:57.433]I woke up early
[01:58.452]I woke up early, I might have went back to sleep
[02:01.404]Yo, I woke up early but came late
[02:03.807]I got lost in the hours before break
[02:05.766]I sat and chewed flowers
[02:06.994]Feet submerged in muddy lake
[02:08.248]Slake rich, crayfish, bite the head
[02:10.599]No I don't know the meaning i just know the feeling
[02:12.793]Get up out of my dreads
[02:14.021]If stress run the world sweep the leg
[02:15.954]If you blessed you should say it
[02:17.365]I'm writing from a place of suspended belief
[02:19.193]A new conviction, bones and teeth
[02:21.466]Reasons got reasons just moments and seasons indulging each
[02:24.575]I remind me
[02:25.332]Fell inside my hat beneath a key lime tree, indeed
[02:28.650]Who is this king of glory?
[02:30.348]I'm out getting deep cups and psyllium husk
[02:32.646]I heard this might just free you up
[02:34.135]I don't have an iron for the crease
[02:35.781]I weaved a way for the world to wear me
[02:37.923]Weighted carries, milks and pools, fools
[02:40.039]I keep a monolith in my pocket
[02:42.051]My posture authoritative and anonymous
[02:43.931]How to, raise a free black child south of a lower heaven
[02:47.693]Small body big spirit
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