The Inkwell
Blue Scholars

(Yo, you ever... go outside at night, look up into the sky, into the big, immense sky and think to yourself, that's a big sky! Like an inkwell...)nnIn a city that's been waiting to blow since big butts and teen spiritnMany make music, few can hear it, secluded in the upper left nDominantly grey-shaded skies every other day, sorta like the baynJust a little bit wetter, and cold in the winternProximity to water make the soul a little gentlernOut-of-towners don't be knowin' about the best-keptnAin't nothing better than the summer in the NorthwestnMicrophone check 1-206, nBuddha smoke, buddha smoke, can I get a quick fix to lift nThis eye to the level of needle in the skynLookin' over the sound against the shores of the suicide capitalnBust the magical dust, grammatically adjust the satellitenWhat makes Seattle tight? The fruits have been ripe in spite of all the bull,nAnd last second changes of plans like on holdnAnd prodigal sons, whose motto is run whenever possiblenWatch Mr. Officer shoot before he aimsnAnd claims self-defense in the name of the citizenrynSPD's spread the city like an STDnI'm rollin', Rainier bumpin', let's get freenWhile the people sleep, I must speak 'til they wakenNow let me push my pen to creatennBeats, rhymes and lifenEach time I write the fire ignitesnI light the skynThere's an infinite inkwell high above the citynDip the pen steadily, sing the melodynOf beats, rhymes and lifenEach time I write the fire ignitesnI light the skynThere's an infinite inkwell high above the citynDip the pen steadily, sing the melodynnThey paved rock candy and put up a parking lotnIt was a spot for 'em and it was hot up in itnThe cops lit it up when the thugs fisticuffsnThen the mayor was quick to up and pin it on hip hopnShows got dropped on the cinder block crushnWhat's left of the scene rose up from the dustnIt must have been many times over-frustratednTo watch the downfall of those who could've made it whilenSome waited for the next Mixalot to blownOthers made moves said shit we ought to grow butnTime moves slow when the clock's overweightnMeaning those who wait as opposed to createnBut those who make bread do not break the moldnI was only 19 but my rhymes were boldnWhen the things got for real I got up in the foldnAnd put up into practice all that I was toldnWickedia then came up and showed lovenWe called ourselves Phase and ironically it wasnBecame the last kid still writing at 9-5nB-town ciphers with tale and justifynMoved to the city, started posing as a journalistnTo get press passes and ask kids for burgers, to prove insteadnPut down the pen, picked up the micnCame in for competitor's headsnAnd when I got down severin' several losersnStarted getting down with hella producersnThey welcomed me into the big housenBut they didn't feel the city so they moved back southnAnd other dudes weren't even worth it to work withnAnd if I see one, there's about to be a murder worth a jawnYou get two double zero one, the struggle just begun to bear fruitnAt the end of a troubling youth, Sabzi got me nTo speak over beats like the key to unlock me, and I'll be damnednTen years to the summer I began, I'm still up in the labnAnd while the people sleep I must speak 'til they wakenNow let me push this pen to createnWhile the people sleep I must speak 'til they wakenNow let me push this pen to creatennBeats, rhymes and lifenEach time I write the fire ignitesnI light the skynThere's an infinite inkwell high above the citynDip the pen steadily, sing the melody nOf beats, rhymes and lifenEach time I write the fire ignitesnI light the skynThere's an infinite inkwell high above the citynDip the pen steadily, sing the melody...n

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