[00:12.710]Light as a feather when I'm floating through
[00:14.590]Reading through the daily news
[00:16.080]Measuring the hurt within the golden rule
[00:18.130]Centimeters of ether I'm heatin' the speaker
[00:20.310]Motivational teacher with words that burn people
[00:22.040]Seeing the headlines lined with discord
[00:24.430]It's either genocide or the planet in uproar
[00:27.220]Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice
[00:29.920]The best laid plans of mice and men are never right
[00:32.920]I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon
[00:35.380]An average joe who knows what the fuck is goin' on
[00:38.270]Its the hope of my thoughts that I travel upon
[00:40.940]Fly like an arrow of God until I'm gone so
[00:44.030]Driftin' away like a feather in air
[00:46.050]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair
[00:48.930]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator
[00:51.560]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm
[00:54.220]Driftin' away like a feather in air
[00:56.660]Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
[00:59.530]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator
[01:02.260]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater
[01:04.810]Taking chances word tap dancing with wolves
[01:07.590]In an ice arena out there deep in the woods of arizona
[01:10.600]The sun be high life's ironic
[01:12.870]Ain't tryin' to be talib when I write
[01:14.710]Surreal life I paint it vivid
[01:16.550]Habitat, crazy, insane
[01:18.200]Watchin' propaganda six o' clock news that are sayin
[01:20.940]Cultures clash, poor black folk and white trash
[01:23.960]They revel in the cyberspace that might crash
[01:26.570]Dash to millennium a million miles of runnin
[01:29.380]At the speed of now they'll return gunnin
[01:32.000]Rambo style gun-ho child gunning
[01:34.800]Ammo blaow two times loud stunnin
[01:37.610]Stunnin' when it hit ya, lift ya off the earth like
[01:40.850]Ayo take you right back to birth
[01:43.500]And niggas wonder why
[01:44.800]They might wonder why this shit might happen but it does, it goes
[01:48.060]Driftin' away like a feather in air
[01:50.770]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair
[01:54.050]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator
[01:56.850]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm
[01:59.550]Driftin' away like a feather in air
[02:01.560]Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
[02:04.360]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator
[02:07.060]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater
[02:09.670]Treat you, better than me 'cause that's the heavenly key
[02:12.190]To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be
[02:14.430]It's the knowledge of self, understanding of the things around me
[02:18.630]That becomes the wisdom that I need,
[02:21.020]Livin' this life to the best of my ability
[02:23.470]Channelin' energy to my thoughts attain symmetry
[02:26.180]Remember me, because my proses remain gold
[02:28.790]I got the gift of gab like them pimps in Kangols
[02:31.450]It never ends, I keep it rollin' like a cipher,
[02:34.120]The first cave man bringing fire, innovating it higher
[02:37.280]To blast mistakes I raise the stakes
[02:39.470]It's double or nothing in this vacuum of space
[02:42.370]I will, survive, divine, the time to cry
[02:44.430]Fuck a hold or hide I'm alive with pride
[02:47.210]And I drove the chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
[02:49.930]Singing "this will be the day that I die