[Verse One] Just when I think that I forgot you I hear that Mos Def we used to rock to. Just when I think I’m getting on without you, somebody pass and ask me about you. Was in the back of a cab the other day Swear to god I saw you walking past The other way. Wait a minute. My heart rushed. My face flushed. Tell the driver hit the breaks Slow the pace up. Turns out it wasn’t you. Realized it was a mirage I was running too. Dam, can the effects of love And time cause the mind to trick the eye? I wonder how you’re getting by. And are all those stars still up in your eyes? Everybody lookin’ for the loose end. Tryin’ to pick you for the weakness. My dear friend ain’t no secret This heart is bleedin’. Mucho gusto, me llamo Myrlindo I rock esta rima for my fuckin’ people. Double tongue, shaman skilled, I spill syllables. Like prayer songs I prepare this preamble. From the mandible gravel sand pit of the voice box Unraveled. This brown boy is well traveled. You’d be baffled by the lands I travel. Slick poetic ammo flip from the lip spark light To your dome like a bic to candle. I channel Antepasados singin’ in my veins. I dismantle White supremacist aggression with my grace. The cage bird been singin’ “motherfucker I ain’t been afraid, I just been encaged.” This sanctity you cannot fake. This stylo Is bonafide, original, it’s great. No, no, no, you can’t duplicate Best you can do is imitate. Trust me fam it’s been this way, Trust me fam it’s been this way. Trust me fam it’s been this way…

[Verse One] This is unkillable spiritual wisdom it’s lyrically visceral more than the physical Ushering mystical rhythmically critical. This is my assent. Yah! This is more Meta-phor-ically medical, measuring meta-Morph-eous, General. He Made me a physicist clinically spitting shit. This is my ascent. Yah! People be starvin’ we younger than Compton, the swap meet be stompin’ The boss shit we mobin, we really a problem Fuck all ya’ll be talkin. Cuz this is our assent. Yah! This is the tested, the proven, the method, the brilliance, the vengeance, the grove In the message, the shattering seconds, staggering presence and this is our assent. Yah! The nation neglects, they disrespect what we protect, this we will rep: South side. South West. Dark south. Park bench. West Side. South West. West Life. South East. East Side. North Night. North Sky. Skyline. Park. Park. Drive. Drive. Park. Park. Drive. Drive. Land where the hustlers they battle the hunger, the thunder that hovers The snakes are at plunder. A Hundred degrees so hot you freeze from the sun we under. Yah! This land was stolen my misters who and twiddled their whiskers. Got richer and richer their subjects exploited our living in blisters And everyone whispers. Yah-yah…yah-yah-yah…yah-yah-yah! Razor blade. Twelve gauge. Cops and keys. Red State. Red Hate. Lots of D’s. Scottsdale sleeze. War paint. West gate. Parties scream from balconies. Assault rates. Date rape. Writers paint many scenes. Landscape. Landscape. Landscape. Land of many fiends, hearts break-hearts break Land of many dreams, dreams break-dreams break Land of many thieves. Land of many thieves. Land of many… When the sky clear up and you know all you go is your little ones. When the heat set in and all you got to give is a grip of love. When the rent check and the hustle be your whole life But it’s never enough, but you got gold in you’re grandmothers smile. Meanwhile, take it from us… East coast. West Coast. Califonie. Down South. What up homie? We been down and out-here growin’ freakin’ speakin’ Roots been here for thousands of years drinkin’ Beneath the dust. We got fam and blood you got it fucked up If you think you better than us. Cuz we salt of the earth kid. We salt of the earth! We salt of the earth kid! We salt of the earth! We don’t give a shit if you don’t get it. Better jump up in it. Cuz this is how it works! This is unkillable spiritual wisdom it’s lyrically visceral more than the physical Ushering mystical rhythmically critical. This is my assent. Yah! People be starvin’ we younger than Compton, the swap meet be stompin’ The boss shit we mobin, we really a problem Fuck all ya’ll be talkin. Cuz this is our assent. Yah! This is unkillable yah! This is unkillibable spiritual yah! This is unkillable spiritual wisdom it’s lyrically yah! Lyrically yah! This is unkillable yah! This is unkillibable spiritual yah! This is unkillable spiritual wisdom it’s lyrically yah! Lyrically yah!

[Verse One] Hold up, pause, smell the barbacoa cuz you know that it’s time. Do you know how to hold luck like a good woman hold a love in her spine? Do you know what it take when she the sunset and you the sun, bro? Do you know what it take when she the moonlight and you the lake bro? I got me a bad one (hey). I found me a good one (whoa). I got me a bad one (hey). I found me a good one (whoa). Good lookin’ momma you talk that salsa. I be ah-ah when you make that nana speak the lushest type of guava! Walk in the party like soap on my ass cuz I feel so clean, girl. Walk out in public and recollect all of our private scenes . [Bridge] You-you with the pure heart. You-you with the lion heart. You-you with the pure heart. You-you with the lion heart. [Chorus] Raise a hand if you’ve ever been in fuckin love Raise a hand if that shit ever fucked you up Raise a hand if you fuckin’ with you’re only one Raise a hand if you fuckin’ like what whats up Raise a hand if you’ve ever been in fuckin love Raise a hand if that shit ever fucked you up Raise a hand if you fuckin’ with you’re only one Raise a hand if you fuckin’ like what whats up [Verse Two] Set the scene for the classic view. Funky finiquera that’s 602. She sip like pretty and walk like danger. She talk like witty and dance like flavor. She be gorgeous gritty citrus tangor. She got neck to check a vet but don’t sleep with strangers. (Wouldn’t matter if she did I’m just tryin’ to be specific). She don’t give a fuck about you’re blog or a motherfuckers status naw. And that’s what make her so finiquera God-ess. So what it ‘bout to be? We both the oasis and both the heat. We both the medicine and the venomous Sting (It’s complicated. It’s love know what I mean?) [Bridge] I got me a bad one (hey). I found me a good one (whoa). I got me a bad one (hey). I found me a good one (whoa). Good lookin’ momma you talk that salsa. I be like ah-ah when you make that nana speak the lushest type of guava! Walk in the party like soap on my ass cuz I feel so clean, girl. Walk out in public and recollect all of our private scenes . You-you with the pure heart. You-you with the lion heart. You-you with the pure heart. You-you with the lion heart. [Chorus] Raise a hand if you’ve ever been in fuckin love Raise a hand if that love ever fucked you up Raise a hand if you fuckin’ with you’re only one Raise a hand if you been tryn’ fuck like wait, what the fuck is up? [Verse Three] Why it always gotta be this way? Two troubled hearts with specific of medicine for joy and pain. She make my heart bleed without moving a muscle. She dress my fear alive and wear it out like a puzzle. She say make the beat pop, I say I got more lyrics. She like “Make me hot wit your ink pen, dippin in the ink jet, To the G shock on the G spot aw fAwk!” Her gaze dangle an angle that grab me raw —tango. If the rest of my life just building these next twenty minutes then —Lego. Syrup. Danish. Spanish Navel. Netflix. Lips—Electric Cables. She say, let me dance, I’m like see you. Who could say no? [Verse Four] Days later its laundry time I put my socks in she in my pockets like Stockton, I’m why? She got a new headache and I got a better excuse But I’m like why it just us and I can’t stand me or you?

[Chorus] She don’t get the road. Thinks it’s a vacation She don’t understand the road. Thinks it’s a vacation. I don’t get the road, maybe it’s vacation. I don’t understand the road, maybe it’s vacation. [Verse One] I could wear a blindfold, but I’d probably never ever go blind though. Vision lives in lips when I grip a microphone. My stomach flinch As I reach for the door handle. I got fifteen seconds before I see her face. Fifteen minutes walkin’ through my shallow pain. Duckin’ fifteen minutes of fame I can’t explain The fifteen years I been penning this shit for the stage. I was on the road. Just got off the road to get back on the road. I feel the vertigo Roll through my chest like memories funneled through a kaleidoscopes. Just a day ago She wrote me saying that “I miss your soul I promise all I want to do is kick it though. I know you know, we know, how all this goes, But could we kick it for a minute, maybe visit though? [Chorus] She don’t get the road. Thinks it’s a vacation She don’t understand the road. Thinks it’s a vacation. I don’t get the road, maybe it’s vacation. I don’t understand the road, maybe it’s vacation. [Verse Two] In the middle of America I study dreams. I study myself with human beings. Choose a college town in middle of America. Follow now, as we step through the house (4) Everybody keep your smiles loud Use em’ to block out all the residue Of sex, drug, child abuse, poverty, neglect, pseudo-democratic Subterfuge—the power to silence these taboos Is hinged on your power to be blinded (4) Blow a smoke wit me. Keep smilin’. Listen to this man wild ‘n Blurting out obscenities Read beneath the lines. He wants his youth back he wants a co sign He’s full of shit and he’s fifty-five (4) I met him a year ago At a benefit observing the politics Of upper class white crowds Look how this super nice guy turns super white loud. Claiming that I want to fuck his wife. At the bar. I want to punch his fucking lights out! [Extended Narrative] You know this is too real to be real, but this is actually your life. Unbelievable as it happens before you, like this, walking-down a high way at night in the rain with this middle aged man enraged and refusing to get in his wife’s car. No one is too old to have an identity crisis you realize. You walk with this man for miles as he spews his frustrations with life like a frat boy trying to win a puking contest. Until finally he cramps up and literally falls into your arms, asks you to call his wife and tell her to come back and take him home. Another semi screams past you like a 747 mist machine. Somehow all of his weak body matches the weak, greedy, child inside of him that cant help but smell gasoline on everything, especially you. You are cloaked in your own heartbreak. It’s amazing how watching someone else’s suffering can momentarily relieve you of your own. Tomorrow you will watch the game at his home, awkwardly with his wife. Just one more night until your back on the road. You are far from home now. The heartache sings its truest notes when you think of her back home, how she is the only one who has ever brought you there, home, closest to your heart and its sutured features.

[Verse One] Ever faced the magic of a woman When she got your heart in her teeth? Ever brushed your chest against her breasts and thought, um…I’ll never leave. Ever know you could kill someone just by saying goodbye? Ever told the truth just so you could conceal your lie? Oh my what an illusion is this life. We become attached to breathing and shit, But we all gotta die. I don’t care when people compare me to musicians. Sayin’ this name, that name, so-so, 3k, uh, Bob Dylan. Call my shit too lame, call it hot flame. It don’t matter What they call it cuz I soak up they comments like they was penicillin. Cuz I’m ill with the sickness I’m fresh with the funk. Light with the dark. I make a dead monk, head bump with the skills I keep on spillin’. So tell me what your feelin and what your not feelin! Love or hate it homie, when a crème puff act tough speak up, that mean they stuck in his feelins’ Oh yeah what’d you say with your hate it? That mean you feel it. [Chorus] They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. [Verse Two] Ain’t it amazin’ how I’m penatratin’ this vibe through your mind With this syllabic rotation. I know people listen to this song a thousand times Before they clued into what I was sayin’. Shout out to a puerta rican abuelita stirrin’ rice in a pot in la cocina. One time for the chicanita out in Eas Los tagin up a wall like que viva. Viva la raza. Viva Zapata. Viva su mama. Viva su vivo. Amigos o enemigos somos todos gente Somos todos people. Sun be to light what blood be to heart. Sun be to light what dream be to art. My fingers crack on keyboards in the dark. I close my eyes and dream up all the pretty little sparks. [Chorus] They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed Don’t-ta don’t-ta don’t keep your eyes closed They say, “Papacito!” They say, “Ven Myrlindo.” They say don’t keep your eyes closed Look at me in my face. America there’s blood on your face. America my blood is on your face. America your blood is in my veins. America watch me war paint. Got a peace pipe when I peace step lookin’ for a better way. But if it gotta be blood I beat the war drum with my crazy legs. Like Sittin bull b-boy steppin’ like a weapon up on this stage. Flames of rage kindle to hate. We raise boys to have killer rage. The complicit think themselves good, but vote For the white supremacist and look away. I am man. Frame me colorful. I’m multitudes. I reject the standard of masculinity pressed to me for patriarchal servitude. At my momma house I wash plates Paint nails. Fishtail. French braid. I’m gentle. I’m fierce. I’m brave. I hurt. I ache. I build. I break. I’m a man, you can’t take that away. Don’t confuse my grace for a lack of strength. Mestisaje in mi sangre compadre lets parlay. I was raised for the war games, but I been winnin’ since I’ve been Peacefully unafraid. Knowing I could die in any way. I could do the most taboo To Wong Foo for you in your war room just to make you afraid. Regardless any real human in the place goin say my fuckin name.

Don’t Scare No White People Momma taught me to fall in love with my brown skin. I was pissin’. I was peein’ while my amero-european father Told me how this land was stolen. By his ancestors from my ancestors. But they all my ancestors anyway. First nations be the only nation I been reppin’ since the very day. You ain’t get you ain’t get it you ain’t get it but its in your DNA. Before the British were the British They were Druids and Brytons within indigenous communities. I’m a deity, feel my enjun, vrmm, vrmm, that’s enjenuity. Happy turkey day Call it happy oil day Happy world in turmoil term-oil Tilting on a global stage. Pilgrim— just another word for pillager— thanks. Might as well celebrate we ain’t got no clean water day. Happy Flint Michigan. America been Africa anyway. Don’t you know its so KKK. Ain’t nobody waiting on a ghost dance from Donald Duck or the EPA. [Bridge] Water is life You can’t eat that money homie. Water is life. We in the fifth world homie. Water is life. You can’t eat that money homie. Water is life. My voice ancient ceremony. Indigenous people… Indigenous people… [Chorus] Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! [Verse Two] Oye, this is coyotito Atzlan stompin’. Turtle Island. Vibin’ wit my people. I’ll take you down to the kiva just to show what’s really real. From the trash bin burnin’ that’s my steeple. To the rez dog on your mommas lawn that’s a very regal beagle. From the Koa Trees to winter freeze on the sangre de cristos. Aint no equal, all I know is…. [Chorus] Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people! Don’t scare no white people!

[Verse One] She says “Myrlin, sometimes your certain Other times your afraid of everything.” Commitment is what she means, especially, Cuz the future is such a scary thing to me. I can barley see How we gonna pay rent next week Let alone far enough down to road to see a family But I dream, And she’s there beside me Watchin’ laughin’ while little babies bounce on my knee Sayin, “Daddy! Daddy!” Oh, My-my, I think I’m afraid of being lonely. The other night I called my homie, he told me, that he’s with his fam and he can’t break free. I listen to phone ring, all alone, all by myself. Look at these empty bottles of beers in front of me and no one else. How many streets I crossed? Battles I fought and lost? How many vagrant thoughts Do I drift upon until I’m stuck untying these knots? Like I’m sure that I love you more than me. But If I really loved you best I’d love the most of me That needs the most flourishing. Free of addictive rhythms it’s a vicious Self imposed prison I break down to rebuild it I break it down to rebuild it. I break it down to rebuild it. I break it down to rebuild it. [Bridge] He be runnin’ a runnin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ ah whoa whoa whoa. She be runnin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ ah whoa whoa whoa. [Chorus] I know we got these problems. I know I want to solve em’. I know we must grow old But I want our love to blossom. One argument turns into everything. Old wounds open and we start to bleed. Trading blame like—you! You! You! And what about me? [Verse Two] She is Taurus Stubborn and grounded like a tree in the forest. Rooted in pride, she shut me out, I get my hand stuck in the door hinge. Humans are self absorbed and walking contradictions Swimming in quicksand using their toes to make decisions. Listen, She say, “Some days I’m afraid I’m just a muse, just a part of your myth. I see you less and less the more famous you get. I fear one day you’ll return from one of your trips And you’re someone else and I’m different and that will be it. Write me a love song, a love song, that’s fine by me. I love your love songs, your love songs, they remind me That you love me and you want the world to see But sometimes I feel like talk is cheap I hate your love songs, your love songs, for shackling me. I hate your love songs your love songs that are all about me. I hate your love songs, your love songs, they won’t let me breath. I love you but hate to watch you leave. [Bridge] He be runnin’ a runnin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ ah whoa whoa whoa. She be runnin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ ah whoa whoa whoa. He be runnin’ a runnin’ a numbin’ a numbin’ ah whoa whoa whoa. [Chorus] I know we got these problems. I know I want to solve em’. I know we must grow old But I want our love to blossom. One argument turns into everything. Old wounds open and we start to bleed. Trading blame like—you! You! You! And what about me?

[Verse One] Another foggy morning My eyes carry scenes from a long night The rain is pouring. Gotta pack my bag And catch my next flight. I try to write my story But think my whole life And all the other stories Of everything I’ve touched: A couch in Texas A woman I loved so much. I think of her necklace. My hands on this coffee mug. The lint in my pockets now blowin in through the laundry vent. A light socket at an elementary school where I went Footballin’ kicked the ball across the fence And I wonder yall if the fence is still bent From the shape of my nine year old leg. And I wonder yall if the lent blow out that laundry vent. Into the wind where it get swept against that old fence Cuz it all connect. Cuz it all connect. Cuz it all connect. [Bridge] I’m floatin’ with cosmos holdin’ on to everything. I’m floatin’ in the cosmos lettin’ go of everything. [Hook] I’m Floatin in the cosmos In the living room of somebody house Who I barely know And I found myself whoa! We made of the cosmos You, me, everybody in between Go ahead now feel your soul. [Verse Two] I think about the metal on that fence How it was mined from the earth’s crest. You know the core of the earth is hot, oh yes. It pump magma like your heart pump blood through your chest, uh huh. I sure hope no volcano bullet wounds rip holes through my vest. I sure hope no volcano bullet wounds rip holes through my vest. Cuz then my jackets would bloom bullet wounds made of bloody lent. Cuz then my jackets would bloom bullet wounds made of bloody lent. There’s a river in my mind and a well on my tongue, uh huh. You know you flow through my body on my mind you got me sprung, uh huh No matter the space or time our nerves will touch, uh huh. Through the body or the mind we shatter time with our love, uh huh. [Bridge] We reflect these reflections when we connect Even disconnected people, we represent when we say In Lak ‘Ech We reflect these reflections when we connect Even disconnected people, we represent when we say In Lak ‘Ech [Hook] I’m Floatin in the cosmos In the living room of somebody house Who I barely know And I found myself whoa! We made of the cosmos You, me, everybody in between Go ahead now feel your soul. [Verse Three] Can you think of a time when you were mad, yeah? Can you think of a time when you were sad, yeah? Like you could bio degrade like lent inside a grave man. Like you could blow up like a grenade was in your hand. Shrapnel expand like a super nova. Our lives are streaks of light I’m sitting on this sofa. Thinkin’ bout how meteors crash into boulders and that’s where all the loads a gold come from. MAN ONE: Ay Man Nice Space Rock MAN TWO: Thanks dog I got if from a meteor. I don’t need no bling I don’t need no car no diamond ring, nuh uh. There’s parts of stars inside of me that you just can’t see. They exist in you. I’m their reflection close your eyes and believe. It ain’t my fault you to awe-struck by material things. I dig my mind, no need to dig up gold, cuz my shines beneath. And it don’t got shit to do with no Hollywood T.V. screen. My soul is immaterial. My spirit is celestial. You can carbon date my bones cabron But you can never quantify my soul.

[Verse One] In the grocery store and I’m swervin’ Got to get myself some aguacate chop it up like a surgeon. And while I’m searchin’. I see this girl smell a pomegranate like she’s learnin’. Somethin’ sacred about the landthat gave birth to the fruit In her hand and dam I’m dreamin’. Never skeemin’ just peacefully peepin’ For some reason I see her nature bloomin’ She pass me by unassumin’ so human. So I keeps movin’ And I’d like to think that she study botany. Know the names of all the plants and all the trees. She walk through the meadow gather everything she needs To make some herbal tea. With eyes like that I bet she grew up in chuco town. Got a whole bunch of juarense primos All her tios en la pachanga get down (Orale). Who knows though maybe she sell title loans. Got a soul in the throws of a romantic winter. Day by day she grow just a little more bitter. Gotta temper that burn cold and hot like volcanic blizzards. And if I give her my heart She might just convince me I’m warm while I shiver. [Chorus] And that’s just how it goes You can idealize anyone you just don’t know. People hide and lie because they don’t want to be exposed. So I swerve with a private mind close enough to be an Asymptote. And that’s just how it goes You can idealize anyone you just don’t know. People hide and lie because they don’t want to be exposed. So I swerve with a private mind close enough to be an Asymptote [Verse Two] Outside of a house in Austin I watch the city night cross faded with light. When a voice approached like can I have some. Her eyes clear as the sun and uh what I sight. To behold when the paper and the flame ignites. Sparks and stutters I muttered uh uh sure thing. My weak lips conduits to nerves that abandoned my weak knees. Beyond the fog of the moment I witnessed the conversation flow with The same grace as the way smoke drifts And I wondered if she noticed If had it my way I’d ask her if she was good and rowin’ Walk down to the dock, steal a boat And start strollin’ through the open water. I ponder. A glimpse beyond her inside my lager, See her hand wander, to my shoulder tips. Oh shit, holy telekinesis We stuck in gaze that speaketh If we kiss we might feel the need to rip our close to pieces Good Buddah, good Jesus. I’m speechless. My eyes ablaze, I think we might be soulmates. Conquering demons sexual healin’. Hold up Freeze this: She about to tell me she’s leavin’ She got a place for me to sleep in’ Some part of my body screamin’ Bigger part of my conscious like ah just leave it. I can play naïve but I know it will never be as good as you dreamed it. People get attached I got a plane to catch and a song to write. Another state the land. Still in love with my ex and there ain’t no chance I’m lookin for no real romance. And the facts in question. What kinda trust can be achieved with lust in a few hours and a matter of seconds? People got good intentions But desire, obsession, lead to plenty of messes. I’d rather clean up my own projections Keep the fantasy intact use my hand to handle my own erection. Why risk false love, false hope or infection. [Chorus] And that’s just how it goes You can idealize anyone you just don’t know. People hide and lie because they don’t want to be exposed. So I swerve with a private mind close enough to be an Asymptote. And that’s just how it goes You can idealize anyone you just don’t know. People hide and lie because they don’t want to be exposed. So I swerve with a private mind close enough to be an Asymptote

[Verse One] What you really need to know about me? I guess I show you a few things. Do you see the young woman speak her poem out loud About being raped at sixteen? Can you see us dry our eyes and pose for a selfie? Tag me. Do you know those Barrio Hollywood kids who are young adult daddies? Do you know that they add me, message me, fan me? Do you know the rich kids at the private college file in swiftly. To an auditorium where I hit the academic institution for about six g’s. Put it on my rent, put it on this video, put it on student loan debt. Put it on the time I spent, lovin’ and livin’, growin’, an failin’, just to make this exist. My life is so much more than rap you can’t fathom that. Same way I can’t fathom where you’re at. Listening on the phone, in your headphones, at the park before you go to scrap, Before you hit lick or a link or buy a drink and give a homie dap Fuck it, I’ll choose, I’m at your aunties house in your headphones Smelling cooked food like whoa Watch her add spice so smooth cold suds in the brew Massive flavor as I chew I spit it back at you, homie that’s soul food. I roast fools, I’m the fire spit and flame. They the goose. I transmit, I permeate, beyond the sound wave and the sound booth. They the lie. I’m the truth. The beautiful ugly path I walk makes my groove. [Chorus] I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? Just tryin’ to touch this love shit In private I touch it out of the sight of the public But in public I be lovin’! [Verse Two] This art thing Be my favorite comfort sleep It comforts me When I reach to dream It’s all the survival scraps of me I tapestry, a taping thing, but its not the best of me or the worst of me. It’s the recipe of what I let you see. Intentionality in every thing. When I make this pen bleed This ain’t for publicity This is just how I breathe. 90% of what I make will never seep In your ear drum, son, this is how I pray for me A song to see, in the prayer of we. Its where I go to re-re-read Re-imagine, re-re-remake Re-evaluate. Release dragons. Re-demonstrate anthems of discovery. Where I can become, become, become a better me, Become a better. This ain’t fantasy This is fantastic personality in the prism of joy and grief. Go ahead. Peep, the way I get cold at night I get cold at night. No warm body next to mine Been a long time and I’m cold I memorize winter below a Colorado sky. Coyote howl be the background sound to this life. I sing summer songs through the moonlight They say the night people out to get the day people. But I kick it with the night people and step with the day people. If you know me well they you know that I walk to the day with you. Laugh wit you, hang wit you I channel light to evacuate the darkness in my life Trying to tare away my shackles in real time. I guess I been to focused on the horizon floatin off in the distance, a destination in my mind that I forgot how to enjoy my stride. [Chorus] I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away, I’m away. Where I’m goin’ now? Just tryin’ to touch this love shit In private I touch it out of the sight of the public But in public I be lovin’!

[Verse One] Look at the ashtray fillin’ up Like smoke in my lungs Just another sunset Watch the night fade in, yup. Teenage boys tryin’ to holler down the street from me. At young women I see ‘em from my balcony. Puddles of broken asphalt. Reflect against the windows of a limousine. Heavens sake, at this age I know It ain’t a hard thing to find a woman to come lay with me. But I don’t want a dam thing if she Here for the ego boost and false sense of self esteem. The desire to touch for the sake of status erase all sanctity. Too many times I watch light die in a shallow girls eyes Trying to make myself think she ain’t make-believe. I write this down at the blues spot and I see you lookin’ warm as bakery. Something about you cookin’ like you could take the cake for me Look like you got enough years to be past all the bullshit. Cried enough tears to know life’s hard, but you wont quit. If you permit I will give you this word like cold water upon your lips [Chorus] Everybody got needs. Do you ever lonely? Everybody got needs. Do ever feel guilty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel thirsty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel hungry? I can’t lie. I won’t lie. It’s been long time since I touched a vibe I can’t lie I won’t lie it’s been a long time since I testified. I want to know your story. I want speak your name. I want to touch your thigh. I want to fade away… [Verse Two] Struggle gave you poise and method. Confident and coy when I pause in the middle of my sentence. Just to breath in your essence. Your presence locked and loaded like a weapon. I should mention how you move through the world with autonomy. Honestly, single mother goddess artistry. Equipped with a career and humility. If you wanted me it would be want and never need. You proud as a panther sleek. I’m weak when you ask what I do. I skip the details direct the conversation back to you. We below the surface now. Outside of the venue the moon is out. We hear the music wash through the crowd. Everything seem brighter now. In your younger days, in your danger phase. With men you made mistakes. You pray your sister don’t do the same. And I see your pain tremble through your glance. As you touch my face. And I don’t see no claws and I ain’t no prey. But I see the symmetry of your jaw. And the strap of your bra on your shoulder blade. So I say, “Hey, I don’t live too far away.” [Chorus] Everybody got needs. Do you ever lonely? Everybody got needs. Do ever feel guilty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel thirsty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel hungry? I can’t lie. I won’t lie. It’s been long time since I touched a vibe I can’t lie I won’t lie it’s been a long time since I testified. I want to know your story. I want speak your name. I want to touch your thigh. I want to fade away… [Verse Three] Your fingers walk my bookcase. Hours later I can tell there is something in your mind you ain’t ready to say. In the kitchen we laugh at my miss matching plates. You look for your socks Tie your hair up. My hair is a mess, throw a shirt on my chest when I make you guac. It’s sunrise by the time you say, “Never again will I become a prisoner to my own love life.” Romance is like theme park ride that I bought a ticket for that wasn’t really worth the price. I learned, if you can’t love yourself, you can’t love your life. I love my life, I ride for my son, that’s do or die. My grandmama taught me about people with a gift to see, I see that gift in you. I see you through her eyes intermittently. I see that blue in your heart flickering. Your art collects all the hemorrhaging. But don’t be a fiend, a glutton for your own suffering Not her name, not your art, not your pain, not one specific thing will set you free But baby boy understand that you got the keys.” [Chorus] Everybody got needs. Do you ever lonely? Everybody got needs. Do ever feel guilty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel thirsty? Everybody got needs. Do you ever feel hungry? I can’t lie. I won’t lie. It’s been long time since I touched a vibe I can’t lie I won’t lie it’s been a long time since I testified. I want to know your story. I want speak your name. I want to touch your thigh. I want to fade away… [Extended Narrative] She kissed me once more as morning passed into daylight and said goodbye. I said, “We been here before.” She said. “Take it one lifetime at a time.” And then told me “You can’t do everything all at once. Everything is already happening all at once. You are one part of everything all at once. Do everything you can to be the best part of yourself and show up.” And I was like, “Whaaa?” Then she said, “And to answer your question, of course. Sometimes I feel lonely. Sometimes I feel holy. Sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I feel crazy. Sometimes I feel hungry. Sometimes I feel lovely. Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I feel so clean.”

[Verse One] I ain’t got no perfect life, but I try stay perfectly satisfied With the fact that this is just my life. What a struggle to juggle the idea to live and survive Just to know one day you’ll eventually die. I guess That’s just life. Count the people you love, count the ones that done left. Now, hold them up. Celebrate your life. Toast-toast, water, avocado, bread, drink-drink joke-joke! Won’t you… Celebrate your life. Cast no judgments but those at your own soul And even those you can let them go. Go ahead now. Celebrate your life. The point of being a humanbeing is being human. The point of being a human being is being, see… [Chorus] Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! [Verse Two] I been in love. I had money, man, I been broke. I worked hard, been down and out and still I found hope. I been hurt. Its been love. Its been warm. It’s been cold. Its been life. We be young, man we been old. I be hungry. I been fed, been kicked, been throwed, Been robbed, been cheated. Man, we been owed. I done stole a glance or two. Tumbled off an avalanche in the avenues. It be dance. It be soul. We be break. I be boy. We been woke. We been back around the darker side of town its where we made gold. Made love, made funk, made blues, made soul, Made salsa y corridos, man, we made dope! [Chorus] Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life! Celebrate your life!