Distant Wilderness

[T-Mo]<br>Why is it you fail, to see a man<br>in the same hour, that his kin come grinnin?<br>In another code, fell asleep, party mode, tryin to come up<br>from the ashes that defy your lift, listen up<br>Ladies seem sweet, the ocean meets the mountain peaks<br>Stone-walker, the side-walker, watches loose lips, Wall Street<br>Numbers set by stock movers, buy my tip so I can touch<br>Not for no print size, plate saint, white wasted H20<br>Four coats`ll make it glaze<br>Beams rooted like dogwood, between the Pine, wind<br>Twenty-fo` stores with malt for sale, still fetchin water<br>out the well, help em size, find the grind, find the times<br>where the times weighed as hard as ? find me shoes, baby daddy<br>Rico Daddy, he didn`t break the TV<br>So why should I weep, man gon` bye, see you when my light blow<br>Got more good than dirt to throw, and I won`t pull<br>between the halo, and a fork-pitch<br>Suffocated by my rhymes...<br><br>[Chorus: Debra Killings]<br>Rest your mind in distant wilderness<br>Take your time and concentrate on it<br>Take a stand and make your hand a fist<br>We got a reason to resist<br><br>[Gipp]<br>The mortal orbit your nadir, don`t cross the fader<br>chillin in Decatur, where it`s greater, secure streets<br>In the hood late at nights, dippin fine<br>Hard not to be slippin, if they come, I won`t run<br>When it`s time, I ain`t trippin, I got my date<br>and you got yours too, I see, the record sales soar<br>after the death, of this creator, genocidal, tendencies<br>when they mention he, who listens to Unseen Hand<br>Cappin the faces of the young black man, when they sing<br>Knowin that we Godly, got to keep it right<br>with my people cause I`m equal no matter, how much I make<br>I can`t escape fate, the date as I await<br>As I await, I can`t fake<br>Can`t fake, I can`t fake, I`m true with it<br><br>[Khujo]<br>A duffel for the cash, platinum within myself from another earth<br>Spill, nina, tea leaf, your very, existance<br>is considered a privelege, buck up, and they can`t, be revoked<br>Pay your taxes, uhh, snake eyes<br>Strapped with flaws, still iterant to a lot of laws<br>Man-made, but that`s a dot<br>Everybody from the East coast done went back home, to think<br>Gettin they thoughts mixed negative, after reoccurances<br>I say a prayer, plus if I, entertained them<br>It`s easy to commit, hard to resist<br>And once we cross that line segment, not even our producers<br>can bring us back, eyeballs peeled<br>eardrums opened, egos stripped stroked<br>Another low blow delivered to the hip-hop culture, uhh<br>Industry consists of thieveries, prostitutes<br>and Folgers if somethin bigger than us, past the blue<br>Told us that it wasn`t a heaven for G`s<br>Then we do this, continue your devilish deeds<br>I mean activities, that just show, that it`s a Hell<br>for Jacks, independent, but you distributed by your masters<br>Labels still a slave, but you just get to eat at<br>the white man`s table, lookin like Gable Gunther<br>on the Guinness Book of World Records, God didn`t like ugly<br>and he wasn`t too fond of cute either<br>A climate of caution, a climate of caution in effect<br>Hard acts to follow<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>[Cee-Lo]<br>Where I am, you can feel God is present<br>In the midst of darkness if you spark up bet somebody gonna see it<br>It is necessary for me to speak these words now<br>Another day here hasn`t been promised to me, don`t you agree<br>that you never fail when you try, I`m willing to die but first<br>I am willing to live, and I overstand that this will be<br>a lifelong sacrifice, in order to reveal<br>you gon` have to destroy, and if you ain`t thinkin right<br>you damn sure can`t act right, somebody raise your fist<br>and let me know I`m not alone, revolution, doesn`t mean fightin<br>in these streets, and it ain`t gonna be no revolution<br>without the women, and, it ain`t gonna be no future<br>without the children, and, it ain`t gonna be no children<br>without the men, and, you can`t have no love without the trust<br>And no, trust can come without communication<br>And you can`t communicate if you ain`t got shit to say<br>You can`t teach about what you, been deceived about too<br>Any book you read is still limited education<br>You gon` have to talk to God personally and time is short<br>And, he`s on his way, and I will receive a great reward for what I`ve done<br>And this is all that really matters to me<br>In time you will see what I told you is true<br>And I ain`t have to rhyme to say that to you<br>I ain`t got to rhyme to say it to you, it`s true<br><br>[Chorus]