I Own The Night
Christian Scott, Saul Williams
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If I'm just born once in a lifetime
Who am I to make things up?
I count the stars, but will they count me?
Who am I to lift them up?
Who am I, the soldiers ask me
Who am I, ask the police
Who am I but a reflection
Of that uniform beneath?
I was born in a forgotten day
Born in a forgotten day
But I own the night
I own the night
I snuck back through time-hacks
A mountain of stars over the sea
The rippling torment of solitude I will reach you
If only to shake you awake
Beneath the crust and mantle of this planet is a birthplace
A crystal of light peering through ocean breath and form
I am as conscious of its eye as in my essence I and I
Am both the music and the boom bass of the storm
I own the night
And the stars bright as suns of distant galaxies
I am the darkness of my earthform holding space
I own the night
In the spectrum of awareness and fatality
I take the form of every lover's face
Deep in the eye, in the moonlight satellite
Of every pupil, I am the light
In its waveform I am grace
I own the night
In the dreamspace of a planet in a planet
I own the night
That each day works to erase