[00:00:00] Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali [00:00:01] We'd like to capture your minds right now [00:00:04] What you say [00:00:06] Take you a little bit higher [00:00:10] What you say [00:00:12] What you say [00:00:15] What you say [00:00:20] I like the snares loud enough [00:00:21] To make your eyes blink from it [00:00:22] Only male with the holy grail drink from it [00:00:25] I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street [00:00:28] And spread a thick layer of blood [00:00:30] Sweat and tears on the beats [00:00:31] My brain rest upon the hiphop lexicon [00:00:34] That I acquired in the decade of work [00:00:36] That people slept upon [00:00:37] I don't rap I recite the prayers of the inner soul [00:00:40] Of the slaveships' human cargo [00:00:42] Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market [00:00:45] With shit that make me pace in my room [00:00:47] Until I rip the carpet [00:00:48] I'm fit to start up this next millennium [00:00:50] Swingin' the grappling hook [00:00:52] At cackling crooks to finish em [00:00:53] The city dweller singin' telegrams from neverland [00:00:56] The better man kind now kindly join the caravan [00:00:59] We're like a rock band that pack contraband [00:01:02] And won't hesitate to stomp [00:01:03] A man into the rocks and sand [00:01:05] Brother Ali and if you haven't heard about me [00:01:07] I'm flyin' just beneath your [00:01:09] Radar so y'all can doubt me [00:01:10] Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds [00:01:13] There's a ladder you're supposed to climb [00:01:15] Approach a rhymesayer with a buggsy siegel sized ego [00:01:18] You gon' get yourself snatched out [00:01:20] The sky you know the steelo [00:01:21] By now where what why and how [00:01:24] We start the revolution real time right now [00:01:26] Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:01:30] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [00:01:33] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:01:35] My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun [00:01:38] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:01:41] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [00:01:44] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:01:47] My inner soul shall my inner light shall [00:01:49] I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights [00:01:50] Prayin' they don't starve tonight [00:01:52] And stay positive in the face of a harder life [00:01:54] My chorus light the torch [00:01:56] For those on whom the sun set [00:01:57] Verses meant to speak for the voiceless [00:02:00] So let us never be dismayed or afraid [00:02:02] The ground we're walking on is stained [00:02:04] With the blood of those before us who came [00:02:06] Soldiers in this freedom [00:02:06] Movement are too numerous to name [00:02:08] Cause the human soul yearns [00:02:10] To be free it's all the same [00:02:11] I rhyme for runaways prayin' [00:02:13] That they see another day [00:02:14] You gotta make it through [00:02:15] The winter to feel some summer days [00:02:17] It's for my natives [00:02:18] It's history in the way their hair is braided [00:02:20] Elephants never forget that's how they say it [00:02:22] Tell my man hasim in prison [00:02:24] Keep grinnin' because he's innocent [00:02:25] And tell him that the tests we get are heavensent [00:02:28] Listen I rap for the ones that [00:02:29] Johnny cash wore the black for [00:02:31] Black and white women [00:02:32] That were turned to crack whores [00:02:34] And I empty everything in the bank to give for it [00:02:37] I empty all the days of my life to live for it [00:02:39] And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it [00:02:42] So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it [00:02:44] Yes leave it to me to create [00:02:46] Hope where there was none [00:02:48] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [00:02:51] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:02:54] My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun [00:02:56] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [00:02:59] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [00:03:02] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none