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Hook: Bilal |
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Your inner heart, your inner mind |
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You’re the star that will always shine |
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Forever you’ll be with me |
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Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco |
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Uh, it go like |
| [01:06] |
You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul? |
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Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes? |
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This is balance |
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Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge |
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Between the solitary and the conference that I examines |
| [01:18] |
That I imagine was a figure |
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Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas |
| [01:24] |
Like the transubstantiation of liquor |
| [01:25] |
But that’s just turnin’them into blood |
| [01:27] |
And we’ll be right back where we was |
| [01:29] |
Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors |
| [01:32] |
So I can cut |
| [01:33] |
Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners |
| [01:37] |
For advancement of human suffering |
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And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials |
| [01:42] |
That’s gon’ bring it back to us again |
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A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s |
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Hook: Bilal |
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Your inner heart, your inner mind |
| [01:50] |
You’re the star that will always shine |
| [01:52] |
Forever you’ll be with me |
| [01:57] |
Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco |
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Shotgun |
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Even though independent cars ain’t got one |
| [02:01] |
I got some and more to spare |
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No more despair |
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My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate |
| [02:08] |
Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there |
| [02:11] |
My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here |
| [02:14] |
I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit |
| [02:16] |
Affion on the Drake skit |
| [02:18] |
Now how many more can I make with just one voice |
| [02:21] |
They might call it fake shit |
| [02:23] |
This some deep shit |
| [02:24] |
It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit |
| [02:27] |
Vicariously in every rap I speak with |
| [02:30] |
I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless |
| [02:32] |
Cause I’mma be you |
| [02:34] |
Even though you’re not here to be with |
| [02:36] |
I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers |
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Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream |
| [02:40] |
In a world so Martin Luther King-less |
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Hook: Bilal |
| [02:43] |
Your inner heart, your inner mind |
| [02:45] |
You’re the star that will always shine |
| [02:47] |
Forever you’ll be with me |
| [02:53] |
Your inner heart, your inner mind |
| [02:56] |
You’re the star that will always shine |
| [02:58] |
Forever you’ll be with me |
| [03:06] |
Outro: Lupe Fiasco |
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And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott |
| [03:15] |
In a discourse with Baldwin |
| [03:17] |
On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’ |
| [03:20] |
But wishin’ it never lands |
| [03:22] |
Reminiscent of the dream time |
| [03:24] |
Presently en route to the rise of the machine time |
| [03:28] |
Magazine times |
| [03:29] |
With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee |
| [03:32] |
Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks |
| [03:35] |
Roads as bumpy as braille books |
| [03:37] |
Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door |
| [03:42] |
Gourmet food at the starving soiree |
| [03:44] |
A choice of one easy woman at a time |
| [03:47] |
I’ll take three the hard way |
| [03:50] |
Trying to be as abstract as possible |
| [03:52] |
And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable |
| [03:55] |
A baby fed molten gold |
| [03:57] |
And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls |
| [04:00] |
How to describe this |
| [04:03] |
Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence |
| [04:08] |
Some more technically impressive |
| [04:09] |
In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic |
| [04:14] |
Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby |
| [04:18] |
Might as well not even exist, not even a bit |
| [04:21] |
In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor |
| [04:25] |
And to the oppressors, I leave a war |
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And so on and so forth |
