[00:00:00] Innocence - Saul Williams [00:00:25] You could be the president and pop that [00:00:30] Pop that [00:00:31] Enter the establihment and warn that [00:00:36] Warn that [00:00:39] Take that give it up [00:00:42] Take that give it up [00:00:45] Take that give it up [00:00:50] I was a young boy [00:00:53] From the suburbs [00:00:56] Playing with gun toys [00:01:00] In an old church [00:01:03] Question how I learned to see [00:01:09] Angels in the skies [00:01:14] Was it the calm voice [00:01:17] From the outskirts [00:01:20] Was it the clear voice [00:01:23] Through the whispers [00:01:27] Contemplative misery [00:01:33] Angelic demise [00:01:37] You could be the president [00:01:40] Now pop that pop that [00:01:43] Enter the establihment to warn that [00:01:48] Warn that [00:01:51] Take that give it up [00:01:54] Take that give it up [00:01:57] Take that give it up [00:02:00] Take that give it up [00:02:02] It was a young day [00:02:05] In an old world [00:02:08] Digital Pompeii [00:02:11] And I am a squeen girl [00:02:15] Question how I learned to see [00:02:21] Beyond the disguise [00:02:25] You could be the president [00:02:28] Now pop that pop that [00:02:31] Enter the establihment to warn that [00:02:36] Warn that [00:02:39] Take that give it up [00:02:42] Take that give it up [00:02:45] Take that give it up [00:02:48] Take that give it up [00:02:50] You could be the president and pop that [00:02:54] Pop that [00:02:55] Enter the establihment and warn that [00:03:00] Warn that [00:03:03] Take that give it up [00:03:06] Take that give it up [00:03:09] Take that give it up [00:03:12] Take that give it up [00:03:13] Take that give it up [00:03:26] Presidential presidential [00:03:28] Let's make this day complete [00:03:30] I rose to find the setting sun beneath my feet [00:03:34] And as I stepped beyond that stone and [00:03:36] It stayed in its place [00:03:38] I felt a new warmth taking shape from [00:03:40] Deep in hidden space [00:03:42] I do not breathe the same [00:03:43] My chest is a cathedral [00:03:46] My ribcage frames stained glass [00:03:48] The story on each panel says [00:03:50] New suns are rising fast [00:03:51] And my means have more precision and [00:03:53] My needs are fueled by waste [00:03:55] And I'm channeling an alchemy that [00:03:57] Smells just like it tastes [00:03:59] And the depths that I am reaching are the heights [00:04:00] That I've foreseen [00:04:02] And the people give to nature [00:04:03] What was taken from the seed [00:04:05] And the children slowly gathered [00:04:06] None of them had ever seen [00:04:08] None of them haved dared imagine [00:04:09] How their lives look from a dream [00:04:12] There's no other way around this [00:04:13] It's internal buried deep [00:04:15] Beneath labyrinthine thought tunnels [00:04:16] Where the questions pile in heaps [00:04:18] Heaped upon that is a mystery [00:04:20] Heaped upon that is a plan [00:04:22] Heaped upon that [00:04:22] The simplicity of a river through the land [00:04:25] And the cows around that river [00:04:26] Do not graze into the sea [00:04:28] They are inland bred and treasured [00:04:30] Through their own complicity [00:04:31] And the answers are apparent [00:04:33] Difference is all the same [00:04:35] I'm a whale of deepest regions [00:04:36] Where the ocean floor's aflame [00:04:38] And the source of this great fire is internal [00:04:40] Buried deep [00:04:41] The blood of stars configure in volcanic memory [00:04:44] They push beyond the surface [00:04:46] They push upward and out [00:04:47] From the depths of our great sorrows [00:04:49] To the pucker of a mouth [00:04:50] Kiss kiss kiss [00:04:51] Another century [00:04:52] Kiss kiss kiss [00:04:53] Another year [00:04:53] Kiss kiss kiss [00:04:54] Another speech [00:04:55] He's kissed kissed kissed [00:04:56] To disappear [00:04:57] And we've kissed across a threshold [00:04:58] To our present state of mind [00:05:00] Where our feelings fry from memories [00:05:02] That rest behind the eye [00:05:03] And our dreams are deep polluted [00:05:05] By such tragedies of wealth