Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali
We'd like to capture your minds right now
What you say
Take you a little bit higher
What you say
What you say
What you say
I like the snares loud enough
To make your eyes blink from it
Only male with the holy grail drink from it
I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street
And spread a thick layer of blood
Sweat and tears on the beats
My brain rest upon the hiphop lexicon
That I acquired in the decade of work
That people slept upon
I don't rap I recite the prayers of the inner soul
Of the slaveships' human cargo
Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market
With shit that make me pace in my room
Until I rip the carpet
I'm fit to start up this next millennium
Swingin' the grappling hook
At cackling crooks to finish em
The city dweller singin' telegrams from neverland
The better man kind now kindly join the caravan
We're like a rock band that pack contraband
And won't hesitate to stomp
A man into the rocks and sand
Brother Ali and if you haven't heard about me
I'm flyin' just beneath your
Radar so y'all can doubt me
Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds
There's a ladder you're supposed to climb
Approach a rhymesayer with a buggsy siegel sized ego
You gon' get yourself snatched out
The sky you know the steelo
By now where what why and how
We start the revolution real time right now
Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
My inner soul shall my inner light shall
I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights
Prayin' they don't starve tonight
And stay positive in the face of a harder life
My chorus light the torch
For those on whom the sun set
Verses meant to speak for the voiceless
So let us never be dismayed or afraid
The ground we're walking on is stained
With the blood of those before us who came
Soldiers in this freedom
Movement are too numerous to name
Cause the human soul yearns
To be free it's all the same
I rhyme for runaways prayin'
That they see another day
You gotta make it through
The winter to feel some summer days
It's for my natives
It's history in the way their hair is braided
Elephants never forget that's how they say it
Tell my man hasim in prison
Keep grinnin' because he's innocent
And tell him that the tests we get are heavensent
Listen I rap for the ones that
Johnny cash wore the black for
Black and white women
That were turned to crack whores
And I empty everything in the bank to give for it
I empty all the days of my life to live for it
And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it
So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it
Yes leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
My inner my inner my inner my inner
Yes I glance in the sky and see
The same cloud configuration
That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him
Resisted in the face of adversity
With a fist and it was raised
One finger extended meaning allah be praised
Spent days in heaven's embassy
On Koran pages allah explains this legacy
Angels doubted adam Jacob's brothers clapped him
And ancient pharaohs were too brutal to fathom
If all the earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pens
You could never write the knowledge of god it never ends
And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend
But it's the way of god makin' the oppressed prevalent men
We standin' with humanity at destiny's door
Chanting the war cry it goes never no more
So if y'all tryna talk about the horrors you see
Feel free to tell your stories through me
Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
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