Shadows On The Sun

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