Man's Final Frontier
Ladies and gentlemen, there are seven acknowledged wonders of the world You are about to witness the eighth
Space ain't man's final frontier. Man's final frontier is the soul, guided by someone more powerful than any human being Someone felt but never seen. You will be surprised of what resides in your insides
Do it again C'mon y'all Do it One two three four Three...four
With a rhythm as complex as life itself and a soul that's in boom like the speakers in your ride, you never thought it would happen It's Arrested Development y'all !
Yo Stop...hold it...free...now Yeah C'mon y'all This is the country...deep in the country...deep south, man
Mama's Always On Stage
Brand new mama, I understand It's hard as hell being a young mother and you need support your conscious told you not to abort so to your child you're a hero of some sort But, hey, the worst is over You're ready to do this I got faith and your baby renewed this faith that everything will be fine Now an adult, no more youth time [Anytime you need help sister] We'll be there just give us a ring We will help you raise that king Word to the mother cause it's a black thing I respect you in a strong way Super late nights cause your baby slept all day but mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page
Mama's always on stage
Hey, let me guess, you're bored Wanna get loose, attack the dance floor Cool, I'll hold her, you have a good time I'll keep your baby awake so baby sleeps after nine This is reality, we need to turn our minds Brothers talking revolution but leave their babies behind Well sister, he's a sucker, just leave 'em be The revolution is now up to brothers like me to step in cause your man stepped out [The goal:] To raise these children, no doubt so let's go to it and possibly bring a generation of nat's in the future, see I respect you in a strong way Super late nights cause your baby slept all day But mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page Mama's always on stage Keep up your strength now cause we must grow somehow
Mama's always on stage (4x) Can't be a revolution without women Can't be a revolution without children
I improved throughout my life all of this just to soothe a wife brothers wear your black clothes talk your 5% talk Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom That's exactly how you must walk Life's too short, your mission's too dire Nurture another mind before yours expires Pass it on, push it along Like the brother said it in that one song We respect you all the way Late, late nights cause your baby slept all day but mama's got to stay strong, carry it on Hey, mama's on stage
People Everyday
See I was resting at the park minding my own business as I kick up the treble tone on my radio tape player box, right just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ? Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating investigation maybe she was demonstrating But nevertheless I was pleased My day was going great and my soul was at ease until a group of brothers started bugging out drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route Disrespecting my black queen holding their crotches and being obscene At first I ignored them cause see I know their type They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight and they see a young couple having a time that's good and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do and the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !] was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ? Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me
I am everyday people
I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend I said please cause I don't like killing Africans but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube but I had to take the brother out for being rude and like I said before I was mad by then It took three or four cops to pull me off of him But that's the story y'all of a black man acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African
I am everyday people
Mr. Wendal
Here, have a dollar, in fact no brotherman here, have two Two dollars means a snack for me, but it means a big deal to you Be strong, serve God only, know that if you do, beautiful heaven awaits That's the poem I wrote for the first time I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate Mr.Wendal, that's his name, no one ever knew his name cause he's a no-one Never thought twice about spending on a ol' bum, until I had the chance to really get to know one Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges, still most of y'all come out confused
Go ahead, Mr.Wendal
Mr.Wendal has freedom, a free that you and I think is dumb Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society for Mr.Wendal's a bum His only worries are sickness and an occasional harassment by the police and their chase Uncivilized we call him, but I just saw him eat off the food we waste Civilization, are we really civilized, yes or no ? Who are we to judge ? When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved and killed over a racist grudge Mr.Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways but we don't hear him talk Is it his fault when we've gone too far, and we got too far, cause on him we walk Mr.Wendal, a man, a human in flesh, but not by law I feed you dignity to stand with pride, realize that all in all you stand tall
Mr.Wendal, Lord, Mr.Wendal
Raining Revolution
This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight to give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your umbrellas, you won't be needing those today... Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the rain there's no me and there's no you... I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop viva bum bum bum drip-drop ...
Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me Most are frowning upon your arrival but I need you for survival And when you fall on my community I run outside to properly greet you Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow Every drop hits me, fills me with an unmeasurable amount of security knowing my God acknowledges me as if each drop of rain is aimed toward me my Lord: Thanks for life [Thanks for my rain] my Lord: Thanks for life [Thanks for my rain]
It's raining revolution It's raining solutions It's raining revolution
I struttle strut thru the ghetto The rain this time I feel is mental The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown to the dust that gave them their colored skin Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in The rain many nights have witnessed her Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister and blessed that life to guaranteed existence A conscious baby for a black resistance I feel the rain enhances the revolution and reminds us of a spiritual solution and reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution
Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described by the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless' which is so true... Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow ! Love that power ! Brothers and sisters -haha- Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin Now the ceremony begins Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse Run into your nearest rainbow to grab, hold, to ride on Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color...oh yeah Let it rain (repeats till end) haha yes oh yeah
Fishin' 4 Religion
Grab the hook, grab the line Grab the bait, grab the box and wait Tackle and shackle the topic the faculty has chosen Chosen by many, chosen by plenty, chosen by any man or woman who understand the topic that's known and [Go by the dock] flock and clock the topic as I drop my hook and get a bite The reason I'm fishin' 4 a new religion is my church makes me fall asleep They're praising a God that watches you weep and doesn't want you to do a damn thing about it When they want change the preacher says "shout it" Does shouting bring about change ? I doubt it All shouting does is make you lose your voice So on the dock I sit in silence staring at a sea that's full of violence Scared to put my line in that water coz it seems like there's no religion in there Naively so I give it another go Sitting in church hearing legitimate woes Pastor tells the lady it'll be alright Just pray so you can see the pearly gates so white The lady prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays...it's everlasting "There's nothing wrong with praying ?" It's what she's asking She's asking the Lord to let her cope so one day she can see the golden ropes What you pray for God will give to be able to cope in this world we live The word "cope" and the word "change" is directly opposite, not the same She should have been praying to change her woes but pastor said "Pray to cope with those" The government is happy with most baptist churches coz they don't do a damn thing to try to nurture brothers and sisters on a revolution Baptist teaches dying is the only solution Passiveness causes others to pass us by I throw my line till I've made my decision until then, I'm still fishin' 4 religion
Fishin' 4 Religion
Grab the hook, grab the line Grab the bait, grab the box and wait Tackle and shackle the topic the faculty has chosen Chosen by many, chosen by plenty, chosen by any man or woman who understand the topic that's known and [Go by the dock] flock and clock the topic as I drop my hook and get a bite The reason I'm fishin' 4 a new religion is my church makes me fall asleep They're praising a God that watches you weep and doesn't want you to do a damn thing about it When they want change the preacher says "shout it" Does shouting bring about change ? I doubt it All shouting does is make you lose your voice So on the dock I sit in silence staring at a sea that's full of violence Scared to put my line in that water coz it seems like there's no religion in there Naively so I give it another go Sitting in church hearing legitimate woes Pastor tells the lady it'll be alright Just pray so you can see the pearly gates so white The lady prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays and prays...it's everlasting "There's nothing wrong with praying ?" It's what she's asking She's asking the Lord to let her cope so one day she can see the golden ropes What you pray for God will give to be able to cope in this world we live The word "cope" and the word "change" is directly opposite, not the same She should have been praying to change her woes but pastor said "Pray to cope with those" The government is happy with most baptist churches coz they don't do a damn thing to try to nurture brothers and sisters on a revolution Baptist teaches dying is the only solution Passiveness causes others to pass us by I throw my line till I've made my decision until then, I'm still fishin' 4 religion
Give A Man A Fish
Lately I've been in a life like limbo Looking out of a smudged up window We're not sure where our lives are going Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in Don't know where our next dollar's coming from Living the life of a poor musician Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5 Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive If it wasn't for the rhythm I think we would have given up by now This system has gotten the best of me Now I pray for God to invest in me My dignity, invest his glory Give me the strength so I can finish the story Keep on searching for the right way to go out cuz going out is what it's all about huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active Can't go with what looks attractive Gotta learn all I can while I'm able Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables When we get our chance to make a good living of the music we program We don't sell out just to be sold out Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ? Cuz if they take away our contract we still got talent and we still got contacts Cause we've worked real hard to get this far We're catching the bus before we bought the car Ya see !
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Got to get political Political I gotta get Grown but can't hold my own So this government needs to be overthrown Brothers with their A.K.s and their 9 MMs need to learn how to correctly shoot 'em Save those rounds for a revolution Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangsters Cause gangsters do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers so you say you want out of the ghetto First the political prisoners must be let go And you must let go of your power master Malt liquor got you licked, it’s your powerful master You'll never get out without much discipline Raise your fist but also raise your children So when you die the movement moves on Coz with revolution, ain't no future in fronting y'all Come again Speech? Direct your anger, love Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love Love your life, tackle the government The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent and my phrase went...
Alright ! Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move Rhythm makes your mind soothe, next stop is Jerusalem
U
Lonely, lonely, oh woe is me, oh woe is me I say The complex cycle I go through almost every day To my dismay, I imagine being in this set Me holdin’ the 21st letter of the alphabet All my life I’ve been searchin’ as if it’s my obligation To find who? You but my patience growsthin Cuz u is just a letter surrounded by a better Image of a sister who’s new but overdue for marriage Marriage takes discipline, a problem that exist within The American culture I resist against But I must recall and I trust that all I’ve learned thru life is givin’ way to a wife y’all Cuz I want, not need a companion to feed The knowledge I read and the lovin’ I’ve received Through moms and my palms read a long life So hey I pray for the day I have a strong wife And a strong son or daughter or strong both Give them a strong foundation of values. I think I’ll make A great coach for them and warn ‘em of sin Maybe then they can nip it in the bud before it begins So hey if your listenin’ and yo’ wishin’ for A U like me that you have in store Maybe I could be the u for u And u could be the u for me too
Maybe I could be the U for U Maybe u could be the u for me too
I know you’re there I just haven’t found u yet Gonna’ getcha five cent I’ll bet If I lose, it’s five cents, if I win, it’s Five decades more of a life with a new wife and 2 Or 3 kids My parents want grandkids with big heads like mine Runnin’ and jumpin’ on the bed wit my brownish eyes There’s sort of a pressure to be married and chilled With Terry gone emotional gaps need to be filled So I’m sort of searchin’ but only in my spare time Most of the time I’m busy workin’ on a beat or rhyme I don’t want a sex partner, a female friend or buddy To be played with like silly putty I want to be played with like clay on a spindle Wet it, mold it, bend it, hard it, never dwindle That’s called longevity, different than what you read And see on T.V. So hey if yo listenin’ and your wishin’ for A u like me that u have in store Maybe I could be the u for u And u could be the u for me too
Maybe I could be the U for U Maybe u could be the u for me to
Natural
I'm checking you out, you're all alone No one is clocking u, but I'm scopin’ u Staring right thru u, staring into u Your beauty is endless and I'm hoping to explore Brothers may say you're ugly but I disagree But in a way that's fine with me 'cause I want to travel with you Travel in your mind 'cause you seem like a virgin Free as the wind blows, tall as a tree grows Wild like nature, yet calm as a field Hair is natural, lips are natural Face wins first place, you appeal to me, girl Let me ask you for some time for you to unwind together et cetera I have nothing but pure intentions Everything we'll be will be natural
I'd like to hold your waist as we chase The wind down the shores of a southern ocean Rub my fingers thru your hair Slowly rub and caress your forehead and bare our problems, as we lay on the bed called Earth Holding hands 'till we touch each and every finger as the ocean water wets us both in the center of the crossroads Spiritual bonds are connected...what...an erection Well...Let's drive to the city and walk among the lights of the city streets You're making me weak and it's scary 'cause you've played no games All you've been is very natural That's why I'm scared to fall in love with you Cause girl you are just so natural
I wanna be natural I wanna be natural I wanna sleep with you I wanna be inside you I wanna be sleeping deep in you I wanna be sleeping deep in you I wanna be in you I wanna be in you Natural Natural
Tennessee
Lord I've really been real stressed Down and out, losin ground Although I am black and proud Problems got me pessimistic Brothers and sisters keep messin up Why does it have to be so damn tuff? I don't know where I can go To let these ghosts out of my skull My grandma past, my brother’s gone I never at once felt so alone I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel Not just my spare tire (home) But lord I ask you (home) To be my guiding force and truth (home) For some strange reason it had to be (home) He guided me to Tennessee (home
Take me to another place Take me to another land Make me forget all that hurts me Let me understand your plan
Lord it's obvious we got a relationship Talkin to each other every night and day Although you're superior over me We talk to each other in a friendship way Then outta nowhere you tell me to break Outta the country and into more country Past Dyesburg into Ripley Where the ghost of childhood haunts me Walk the roads my forefathers walked Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from Ask those trees for all their wisdom They tell me my ears are so young (home) Go back to from whence you came (home) My family tree my family name (home) For some strange reason it had to be (home) He guided me to Tennessee (home)
Now I see the importance of history Why people be in the mess that they be Many journeys to freedom made in vain By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games I ask you lord why you enlightened me Without the enlightenment of all my folks He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth And he was there to quench my thirst But I am still thirsty... The lord allowed me to drink some more He said what I am searching for are The answers to all which are in front of me The ultimate truth started to get blurry For some strange reason it had to be It was all a dream about Tennessee
Washed Away
Pebble by pebble, sand grain by sand grain Shore turns to sea, shore turns to ocean Serpent creates the high tides to assure all good is floating Good and righteousness is not intellectual and the fabric that's good cannot be proven and so that fabric is washed away far from the shore from which it was woven The shore is a place where persons live Sowing fabrics that's a tangent of the real one not wearable to most of the persons on shore In fact, it's only wearable to the person of one one person under an oath An oath to a serpent, an evil snake in search for being as powerful as God and all God's good he'll try to take
[He'll try to take] (2x) [Good being washed away] [Love being washed away]
Most of the people follow the serpent coz the serpent preaches "all for self" But why follow someone in search of something when you'll get nothing. Serpent's all for self Some are dumb, some know no better Some believe there is no Lord The serpent uses this knowledge to help him and wash away more of the shore Serpent knows once shores are gone there's nothing left but ocean and sea A few persons trying to save the shore Some of those persons are A.D. Saving the shores means saving the faith The faith that there is a mighty someone Someone much more mighty that created everyone Up the ocean without a paddle is the fabric of God, the righteous clothing And you wear non-righteous clothes of the serpent Naively we keep on serving
[The ocean's owned by the serpent] (4x) [We can stop being washed away] (6x)
Why we let them wash it away ? Why are we allowing them to take what's good ? why won't we teach our children what's real ? Why don't we collect and save what is real ? Look very hard and swim the ocean We must find what needs to be found Look all around and find a wise man to feed us the truth and keep us sound All of us must swim the seas coz our path's been washed away All of us must swim the seas coz our path's been washed away
My one purpose is to swim the seas Find the truth and spread it around Give it to the children that know how to listen so they can pass it after I drown
[We can stop being washed away] (6x)
[Sand grain by sand grain, pebble by pebble] [we can stop this, we can stop] [Can you help us ?] [Will you help us ?] [Please] [Help us stop being washed away] [All of us must swim the sea] [All of us] [Hey !] [Can you help us ? Will you help us ?] [Oooh please help us]
