Shadows on the Sun

(We`d like to capture your minds right now)<br><br>(What you say)<br><br>(Take you a little bit higher)<br><br>(What you say) (3X)<br><br>[ VERSE 1 ]<br>I like the snares loud enough to make your eyes blink from it<br>Only male with the Holy Grail, drink from it<br>I keep an eye on heaven and a ear to the street<br>And spread a thick layer of blood, sweat and tears on the beats<br>My brain rest upon the hip-hop lexicon<br>That I acquired in the decade of work that people slept upon<br>I don`t rap, I recite the prayers of the inner soul<br>Of the slave ships` human cargo<br>Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market<br>With shit that make me pace in my room until I rip the carpet<br>I`m fit to start up this next millennium<br>Swingin the grappling hook at cackling crooks to finish em<br>The city dweller sendin telegrams from Neverland<br>The better man ( ? ) kindly join the caravan<br>We`re like a rock band that pack contraband<br>And won`t hesitate to stomp a man into the rocks and sand<br>Brother Ali, and if you haven`t heard about me<br>I`m flyin just beneath your radar so y`all can doubt me<br>Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds<br>There`s a ladder you`re supposed to climb<br>Approach a Rhymesayer with a Buggsy Siegel sized ego<br>You gon` get yourself snatched out the sky, you know the steelo<br>By now, where, what, why and how<br>We start the revolution real time, right now<br><br>[ CHORUS ]<br>Yes, leave it to me to create hope where there was none<br>The human being shall cast shadows on the sun<br>Leave it to me to create hope where there was none<br>My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun<br>Just leave it to me to create hope where there was none<br>The human being shall cast shadows on the sun<br>Leave it to me to create hope where there was none<br>My inner soul shall, my inner light shall..<br><br>[ VERSE 2 ]<br>I rhyme for cats up in the harbor lights<br>Prayin they don`t starve tonight<br>And stay positive in the face of a harder life<br>My chorus light the torch for those on whom the sun set<br>Verses meant to speak for the voiceless<br>So let us never be dismayed or afraid<br>The ground we`re walkin on is stained<br>With the blood of those before us who came<br>Soldiers in this freedom movement are too numerous to name<br>Cause the human soul yearns to be free, it`s all the same<br>I rhyme for runaways prayin that they see another day<br>You gotta make it through the winter to feel some summer days<br>It`s for my natives, it`s history in the way their hair is braided<br>Elephants never forget, that`s how they say it<br>Tell my man [Name] in prison keep grinnin because he`s innocent<br>And tell him that the tests we get are heaven-sent<br>Listen, I rap for the ones that Johnny Cash wore, the black, for<br>Black and white women that were turned to crackhores<br>And I empty everything in the bank to give for it<br>I empty all the days of my life to live for it<br>And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it<br>So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it<br><br>[ CHORUS ]<br><br>[ VERSE 3 ]<br>I glance in the sky and see the same cloud configuration<br>That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him<br>Resisted in the face of adversity with a fist and it was raised<br>One finger extended, meaning Allah be praised<br>Spent days in Heaven`s embassy<br>On Qu`ran pages Allah explains this legacy<br>Angels doubted Adam, Jacob`s brothers clapped him<br>And ancient Pharaohs were too brutal to fathom<br>If all the earth`s oceans were ink and the trees were pens<br>You could never write the knowledge of God, it never ends<br>And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend<br>But it`s the way of makin the oppressed prevalent men<br>We standin with humanity at destiny`s door<br>Chanting the war cry, it goes, "Never no more"<br>So if y`all tryina talk about the horrors you see<br>Feel free to tell your stories through me<br><br>[ CHORUS ]<br><br>There`s only one God and he`s not just above<br>There`s only one man and there`s only one love<br>Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed<br>For that y`all, we willin to bleed<br>There`s only one God and he`s not just above<br>There`s only one woman and there`s only one love<br>We doin this till all of Adam`s children are freed<br>And for that y`all, we willin to bleed