Never Fallin'

down
 never fallin' down down down
 never fallin' down.
 never fallin' down down down
 never fallin' down
 even if i was blindsided by mac trucks
 in the side street in the alley way
 in the foreign city
 i would still make it back home
 On a highway no bulletins no street signs, no other cars, no radio, no satellite
 I still make it back home
 Connected to the universe
 like a string of lights on the holiday
 if one's out doesn't mean the demise of all who roam the stone
 feel the earth y'all the fire water and sky under his home under his clothes under his belt
 its the Orion sense of tones i never regret the waking hours as the birth shot forth on my feet not my fins i am a man to finish it out don't forget gravity laws
 the only thing keeping me from flight
 wings of space
 infinite night
 downward spiral not in sight
 down
 never falling down down down
 never falling down
 great there is no father
 its her and her offspring
 nobodys offering help
 skin aint softening
 axe chopped to the ankles
 her babies coughing
 maybe the check will come today
 the waits exhausting
 she's the pillar so
 she cant be tilted
 give her sons
 the feeling as though
 they got a million to blow
 need no stilts to reach the stars
 teach the kids to reach with their heads
 and they each will be yours
 i give a piece of me for her
 to have a piece of mind
 or a piece of your chicken
 cause its ramen all the time
 she's thin and getting scared
 but she never lets on
 many men will not fall cause their mama's head strong (strong strong strong)
 down
 never fallin down down down
 never fallin down
 pick your feet on up
 why don't you get on up
 lift your spirits up
 damn i know this shit is tough
 i flunked in high school
 my pops he left me young
 i often lost my cool
 days i feel my mama's gun
 i lost my only son
 when my girl she almost died
 a bad abortion haunted by a baby's eyes
 and every reason lies
 cause you know the truth inside
 you're feeling like a coward
 like the wrong person died
 but still you gotta ride
 let the years pass em by
 never really knowing why
 no questions why i'm always high
 down down down
 never falling down
 down down down
 never falling down
 look
 we slipping and sliding
 808 big riding
 servin' rocks
 balling while they conquering and dividing
 teeth glistening shining
 listening to ourselves lying
 believe in a bleedin' ego still trying
 identifying with the why and the whats
 self hatin is the scars and the cuts that
 run deep down
 not giving a fuck
 behind the sweet sound of the new blues
 rattling the truck full of sun roof to new shoes
 chrome
 neglecting the home
 disrespecting the zone
 that Sankofa should of shown us
 looking back before the time that they owned us
 but never really owned a damn thing the spirit
 sounded like
 down
 never falling down down down
 never fallin down
 i'm hella irresponsible
 and possibly the cause
 of the my subsequent downfall
 now I take a pause
 and reflect on my karma
 and laws i've ignored
 all the signs that could cause
 a turn and redirect my preferred
 course of action
 before the curse of my ashes
 the rehabilitation of the baddest on the planet
 will set a mark a milestone of progress
 the life changing tones of my heart
 and soul mean the most
 learning voices be the search
 and exhume all the skeletons
 a room full of demons with an angel as a prisoner
 she's tortured for the visitors
 the listeners who read between the lines
 and stay inquisitive to dissect these sentences
 down
 never falling down down down
 never falling down
 last night i took a field trip
 kind of bent, hopped a fence
 cut across a playground
 and lay down in a cemetery
 reflecting on my past present and current events
 speech slurring out venting to the moon
 or course she was answering me
 not literal
 but in the spiritual sense
 we spoke me myself and i
 but i wasn't alone
 in fact it felt that picture of a beach with footprints
 in the sand
 you know the poem hanging
 in grandmamas home
 where does love come from?
 where does it go when its gone
 what takes its place
 and why does that space turn
 hard as stone
 another year i am older today
 in many ways i've grown
 but in my head
 them questions still they roam
 riding a bike
 she said its like cycling in circles
 with your eyes closed
 no hands blind faith is what she called it man
 said life's an ocean with a lot of commotion
 once you dive, and ya its deep
 but if you could swim it ain't mattering
 down
 never falling down down down
 never falling down
 down down down
 never falling down.