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Raised to be Lowered
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Saul Williams
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To manifest your dreams before you manifest your fears
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To navigate beyond the treachery of self-despair
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To find the balance between all you sense and all you see
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To find the patience and the strength it takes to let it be
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To stand amongst the crowd and have the strength to hold your own
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To throw away the pen and pad and simply be the poem
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To rise above hatred to love through seeming contradiction
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To seldom take a side and learn to compliment the friction
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To bring about the change within that we can't live without
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To shift and rearrange ideals and learn to deal with doubt
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To voice the victory and unlearn ways of self-defeat
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To learn the value of, "Yo, fuck the words, just ride the beat"
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To leave the comfort zones of all you know to all you feel
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To step beyond the void and realize the unknown is real
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To reimagine every obstacle as just means
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Of honing craft and learn to laugh at failures funny dream
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There has to be some other way to stop the fight
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I was raised to be lowered
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Each day we sing and pray for guidance through the night
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I was raised to be lowered
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To not allow the worshipers to take up all the space
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To dance at funerals and grieve when true love shows it's face
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To meditate upon the lesser things like hair and nails
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To find new meaning in your freedom when your freedom kills
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To walk the runway on the one day when you've lost your stride
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To show your face when you feel more inclined to run and hide
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To keep it gutter when you utter, "No, it won't stop"
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Until the ones that point their guns at get got
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You're gonna get got, let these niggas get got
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Lying on the blacktop you're lying on the have not
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You're gonna get got, get popped, get cocked
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Let these niggas get got, let these niggas get got
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There has to be some other way to stop the fight
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I was raised to be lowered
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Each day we sing and pray for guidance through the night
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Hallelujah, all these other suckas make me sick
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Inshallah we've come this far, the past can suck my dick
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Blessed be the virgin especially if she's nice and thick
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May your first time be full of grace respect and not a trick
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First communion, sacred as the day you were conceived
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Born in sin? Nah, think again, repent and disbelieve
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Heaven is between your thighs there lies the trick, deceived
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Holy blood shed once a month until you nurture seed
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