[00:00:00] Own Light (What Hearts Are For) - Brother Ali [00:00:17] You're not using your heart for [00:00:20] What hearts are for [00:00:21] They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [00:00:25] I thank god for healing [00:00:26] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:00:30] Thank god for listening listen [00:00:32] You've been trying to build me up my whole life [00:00:35] I thank god for building [00:00:37] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:00:41] I thank god I'm living [00:00:42] Sometime I feel like a stranger maybe I ain't from here [00:00:45] World going crazy how could that be unclear [00:00:48] Know that I'm a soldier heart's on my battleground [00:00:51] Sword in the holster had to come back around [00:00:54] I ain't trying to hide away I just had to meditate [00:00:56] I ain't got a lot to say but the ancestors may [00:00:59] Speaking to the whole globe numbers don't occur to me [00:01:02] You can listen solo 'cause you're the whole world to me [00:01:05] I jump in with both feet nothing low key [00:01:07] You can find me where I'm s'posed be where my folks be [00:01:10] If you listen very closely you know who chose me [00:01:12] Nothing that I own owns me and so I'm so free [00:01:15] I remember being hungry needing groceries [00:01:18] Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed [00:01:21] Got a message to the police [00:01:22] You're not using your heart for what hearts are for [00:01:26] They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [00:01:30] I thank god for healing [00:01:31] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:01:35] Thank god for listening listen [00:01:37] You've been trying to build me up my whole life [00:01:41] I thank god for building [00:01:42] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:01:46] I thank god I'm living [00:01:48] Not for one second I believe what you're telling me [00:01:51] I know you invented disease and sell the remedy [00:01:53] Universe is sending me centuries of memories [00:01:56] So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need [00:01:59] I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree [00:02:02] Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies [00:02:04] Ain't worry bout ya threatening me I'm just being honest [00:02:07] I ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left [00:02:10] We just want to make love 'til we wake up [00:02:12] I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness [00:02:15] And you know they want to paint us with the same brush [00:02:18] Wanna interchain us 'til we fill our grave up [00:02:20] Alright okay but when it's all said and it's all done [00:02:24] And I look back at the trophies I won [00:02:26] I will only count one [00:02:28] I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [00:02:32] They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [00:02:35] I thank god for healing [00:02:37] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:02:41] Thank god for listening listen [00:02:43] You've been trying to build me up my whole life [00:02:46] I thank god for building [00:02:48] You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:02:52] I thank god I'm living [00:02:53] And I know who I am [00:02:54] I know whose I am [00:02:56] On your wings I fly [00:02:57] And in your shoes I stand [00:02:59] I'm animated by love I don't move by chance [00:03:01] Any stage I touch or any place I stand [00:03:04] There y'all land living in the world as it is [00:03:07] Cracked vessel I am no more and no less than a man [00:03:10] Any po-sessions that I have are just in my hand [00:03:13] I'm balancing the best that I can [00:03:15] I'm not making no claims but [00:03:17] I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [00:03:21] All the beauty in this whole life uh [00:03:24] I thank god for healing [00:03:26] And you ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:03:30] I thank god for listening listen