Vipassana (Ryan Lewis Remix)

"Vipassana is a science of mind and matter
 How the mind is influencing the body
 And later, how the body is influencing the mind"
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 Yesterday? Forget it
 Tomorrow is? Nada
 The present is right here, through the breath, watch it
 Atheist Jesus piece, hangin' on a cross
 We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs
 About how we got here
 What it is, what it isn't, shit
 Fate versus faith, scrimmaging with coincidence
 Leave out the marketing, hold up on the business end
 Focus on the genuine, and everything else, you can shed the skin
 I was a couple moves away from being dead
 In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red
 I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz
 Lost it all, sobered up, and guess what?
 Now we meet again
 And now I'm back, finally just laughin'
 Expectations are resentments waiting to happen
 Studying the dharma, karma, vipassana practice
 Bahá'u'lláh, Buddha, God, to the mountaintop and I'm traveling
 Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters
 People, impermanence, lack of attachments
 It's space and time, a couple of man-made distractions
 The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture
 Church, this booth is my Vatican
 I don't control life, but I can control how I react to it
 Student of the breath, brick beats and balancin'
 Desire versus truth until I finally find happiness
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 I was put here to do something before I'm lying in that casket
 I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is
 The world's a stage and we play a character, I found him
 It took me 20-something years and a bunch of shitty soundchecks
 I'm not gonna be content 'til I find gratitude
 Regardless of my sales or the record deals they're handing you
 If the next generation takes our legacy and samples you
 We'll have a bunch of mp3s and misled kids to pass 'em to
 I use my veins to create the color I paint from
 Delve into self 'til my heart becomes my paint brush
 I told my mama I'm not stoppin' 'til my name's up
 Thinking those comments on that blog is gonna save us
 Searchin' for everything but God to validate you
 Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters
 Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant
 Truth, the only thing that I ever used in moderation
 So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle
 Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful
 Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical
 So the people can relate to where I've been
 Where I'm going, what I've seen, what I've heard
 From the guts, fuck the glory
 Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording
 Many in my past and many that came before me
 I just keep walkin' my path and blessed to share my story