EmergencE (feat. Saul Williams)

Shaped by darkness as much as light
 Descendant of the sharecropper's plight
 From can't see in the morning to can't see at night
 To second sight
 With the wherewithal to fight
 An exercise of excision, excavation, exorcism
 To heal the spirit and reveal the prism
 Beyond the prison
 Groomed by addiction
 Tuned by a vision
 One woman, one mission
 Follow me
 I am the wildest dreams of rebels and kings
 Incredible odds I battled and won
 Then circled the sun and settled here, bred of a fiend
 Daughter of dust
 Trudged through the rocks to chase 'em revenue streams
 My family's familiar with crops
 But they ain't accustomed to none of the cream
 The funniest thing, spent the first two of my years unable to scream
 'Cause I was born wrapped
 In ancient pain, the kind that needed to cling
 We went from slaving farms to Reaganomics, hell of a swing
 A different war but same old target, backs embellished with wings
 Niggas, never, negus, clever
 Needles turned to Nino's era
 Brown girl with a thin skin
 They said I'd never make it this far
 That was the devil, baby, this God
 I'm one of heaven's favorites, Ishtar
 Brown girl with a thin skin
 They said I'd never make it this far
 That was the devil, baby, this God
 I'm one of heaven's favorites, Ishtar
 Look at me now, look at me now
 Look at me now, look at me now
 Look at me now, look at me now
 Look at me now, look at me now