Shadows On The Sun
Brother Ali

(We'd like to capture your minds right now)nn(What you say)nn(Take you a little bit higher)nn(What you say)n(What you say)n(What you say)nn[Verse 1]nI like the snares loud enough to make your eyes blink from itnOnly male with the Holy Grail, drink from itnI keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the streetnAnd spread a thick layer of blood, sweat and tears on the beatsnMy brain rest upon the hip-hop lexiconnThat I acquired in the decade of work that people slept uponnI don't rap, I recite the prayers of the inner soulnOf the slaveships' human cargonSeemingly meaningless rappers flood the marketnWith shit that make me pace in my room until I rip the carpetnI'm fit to start up this next millenniumnSwingin’ the grappling hook at cackling crooks to finish ‘emnThe city dweller singin’ telegrams from NeverlandnThe better man kind now, kindly join the caravannWe're like a rock band that pack contrabandnAnd won't hesitate to stomp a man into the rocks and sandnBrother Ali, and if you haven't heard about menI'm flyin’ just beneath your radar so y'all can doubt menStay on the sonar with crowbars to open mindsnThere's a ladder you're supposed to climbnApproach a Rhymesayer with a Buggsy Siegel sized egonYou gon' get yourself snatched out the sky, you know the steelonBy now, where, what, why and hownWe start the revolution real time, right nownn[Chorus]nYes, leave it to me to create hope where there was nonenThe human being shall cast shadows on the sunnLeave it to me to create hope where there was nonenMy inner soul shall cast shadows on the sunnLeave it to me to create hope where there was nonenThe human being shall cast shadows on the sunnLeave it to me to create hope where there was nonenMy inner soul shall, my inner light shallnn[Verse 2]nI rhyme for cats up in the harbored lightsnPrayin’ they don't starve tonightnAnd stay positive in the face of a harder lifenMy chorus light the torch for those on whom the sun setnVerses meant to speak for the voicelessnSo let us never be dismayed or afraidnThe ground we're walking on is stainednWith the blood of those before us who camenSoldiers in this freedom movement are too numerous to namenCause the human soul yearns to be free, it's all the samenI rhyme for runaways, prayin’ that they see another daynYou gotta make it through the winter to feel some summer daysnIt's for my nativesnIt's history in the way their hair is braidednElephants never forget, that's how they say itnTell my man Hasim in prison keep grinnin’ because he's innocentnAnd tell him that the tests we get are heaven-sentnListen, I rap for the ones that Johnny Cash wore the black fornBlack and white women that were turned to crack whoresnAnd I empty everything in the bank to give for itnI empty all the days of my life to live for itnAnd I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for itnSo I empty all the ink in this pen to write for itnn[Chorus]nn[Verse 3]nI glance in the sky and see the same cloud configurationnThat Nat Turner saw the day they hanged himnResisted in the face of adversity with a fist and it was raisednOne finger extended, meaning Allah be praisednSpent days in Heaven's embassynOn Koran pages Allah explains this legacynAngels doubted Adam, Jacob's brothers clapped himnAnd ancient Pharaohs were too brutal to fathomnIf all the Earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pensnYou could never write the knowledge of God, it never endsnAnd I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mendnBut it's the way of God makin’ the oppressed prevalent mennWe standin’ with humanity at destiny's doornChanting the war cry, it goes, Never no morenSo if y'all tryna talk about the horrors you seenFeel free to tell your stories through menn[Chorus]nnThere's only one God and he's not just abovenThere's only one man and there's only one lovenTill everybody gets what I instill in my seednFor that y'all, we willing to bleednThere's only one God and he's not just abovenThere's only one woman and there's only one lovenWe doin’ this till all of Adam's children are freednAnd for that y'all, we willin’ to bleed

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