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Saul Williams
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Acid-wash Guess with the leather patches
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Sportin' the white Diadoras with the hoodie that matches
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I'm wearing two Swatches and a small Gucci pouch
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I could have worn the Lugi but I left it in the house
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Now, my niggas Duce and Wayne got gold plates with their names
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With the skyline on it with the box link chain
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I'm wearing my frames
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They match my gear with their tint
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And you know Lagerfields is the scent
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Now, my nigga Rafael just got his jeep out the shop
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Mint green sidekick, custom-made rag top
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"Strictly Business" is the album that we play
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"You're A Customer"; the pick of the day
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Now there's a nigga on the block, never seen him before
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Selling incence and oil, my man thinks that he's the law
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But why on earth would this be on their agenda?
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As he slowly approaches the window..
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"Uh, uh, I've seen you before, I've been you and more
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I was the one bearing the pitcher of water
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I rent the large upper room
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Furnished with tidings of your doom
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Or pleasure, whichever feathers[?] decree."
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Yo Ralph is he talking to me?
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"No I'm talking to the sea son's resurrected
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I'm the solstice of the day
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I bring news from the blues of the Caspian"
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My man laughs, he's one them crazy motherfuckers
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Turn the music back up - 'cause I'm the E-Double'
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"Wait, but but but but I know the volume of the sea
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And sound waves as I will
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Will you allow me to be at your service?"
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My man Ralph is nervous. He believes
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That this strange tongue deceives
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And maybe he's been informed that
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He's pushing gats hidden in the back, beneath the floor mats
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Come on Jack, we don't have time
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For your bullshit or playin
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A'salaam a something' or another
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"Wait isn't Juanita your mother?
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I told you I know you, now grant me a moment"
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At the gates of Atlantis we stand
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Ours is the blood that flowed from the palms of his hands
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on the plow till earth
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till I'm now
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Moon cycles revisited, womb fruit of the sun
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Full moon of occasions wave the wolves where they run
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And they run towards the light casting love on the winds
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As is the science of the aroma of sleeping women
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Lost in his eyes they soon reflect my friend's are grinning
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But I'm a pupil of his sight
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The wheels are spinning
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Yo I'll see ya'll later on tonight
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In the beginning her tears where the long awaited rains
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Of a parched Somali village
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Red dusted children danced shadows
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In the newfound mound of mascara that eclipsed her face
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Reflected in the smogged glass of carlos east street bodega
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Learning to love, she had forgotten to cry
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Seldom hearing the distant thunder in her lovers ambivalent sighs
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He was not honest
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She was not sure
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A great grandmother
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Had sacrificed the family's clarity for God in the late 1800's
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Nonetheless she had allowed him to mispronounce her name
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Which had eventually led to her misinterpreating her own dreams
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And later doubting them
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But
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The night was young
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She the firstborn daughter of water faced darkness and smiled
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Took mystery as her lover
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And raised light as her child
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Man that shit was wild you should have seen how they ran
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She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand
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Tupac in lotus form
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Ennis'[?] blood on his hands
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She woke up on a vessel
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The land behind her
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The sun within her
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Water beneath her
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Mushed corn for dinner
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Or was it breakfast
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Her stomach turned as if a compass
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She prayed towards east and lay there breathless
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They threw her overboard for dead
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She swam silently and fled
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Into the blue sea
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La soh fa mi, re do, si
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The seventh octave
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I don't mean to confuse you
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Many of us have been taught to sing
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And so we practice scales
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Many of us were born singing
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And thus were born with scales
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Mermaids, cooks, and fieldhands
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Sang a nightsong by the forest
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And the ocean was the chorus
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In Atlantis where they sang
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Those thrown overboard had overheard
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The mystery of the undertow
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And understood that down below
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There would be no more chains
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They surrendered breath and name
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And survived countless as rain
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I'm the weather man
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The clouds say storm is coming
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A white buffalo was born
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Already running
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And if you listen very close
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You'll hear a humming
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Beneath the surface of our purpose lies
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Rumors of ancient man
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Dressed in cloud face minstrels in the sky
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The moon's my mammy
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The storm holds my eye
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Dressed in westerlies [?]
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Robed by robes ol' man river knows my name
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And the reason you were born
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Is the reason
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That I came
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Then she looks me in the face
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And her eyes get weak
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Pulse rate descends, hearts rate increase
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Emcees look me in the face and their eyes get weak
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Pulse rates descends hearts rate increase
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It's like "beam me up, Scottie", I control your body
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I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
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We all rocked fades, fresh faded in ladidadi - and when we rock the mic
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Ignore the feminine side - we rock the mic
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I presented my feminine side with flowers
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She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat
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And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes
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