Nword Gem
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[hook] they say that you should be the change you wanna see.
Iโm looking in the mirror,
Canโt even say if who i see is me.
& who can tell if that image is what i want or what iโve been told,
What i have bought or what iโve been sold?
So, i canโt really even tell you if itโs mine.
No, i can only speak to what i find
& lose along the way, & seeing i
Might move differently & decide
If history donโt repeat then it rhymes.
Yes, yes.
[1] back when jay was telling me,
โniggas gonโ hate us because they jealous.โ
I never thought to connect that to how them people
Would jail us.
They was coming for us all,
Them public speeches had failed us,
Just like them teachers that held us
In classes & tried to tell us
Bout the
Red, white, blue.
Looping heads right through sentences we was reading,
Being led by noose,
To the gallows
Pistols & bibles, lead-like, too.
Aftermath of the scene leave a red bright hue
On the trees & the ground,
In the breeze is the sound
Of the screams. this account
Is a means to announce
Allegory to the story that would lead to my route
& can maybe, sort of, explain the degrees of my doubt.
I wasnโt even around when they kicked the door to the ground,
Search, then seized, whatever it is they found
I wanted to try & ask him the reason he didnโt break,
Then i remembered ... he told me it was hate.
[hook] they say that you should be the change you wanna see.
Iโm looking in the mirror,
Canโt even say if who i see is me.
& who can tell if that image is what i want or what iโve been told,
What i have bought or what iโve been sold?
So, i canโt really even tell you if itโs mine.
No, i can only speak to what i find
& lose along the way, & seeing i
Might move differently & decide
If history donโt repeat then it rhymes.
[2] when he was writing me letters โbout how itโs gonโ all get better,
I was still drinking liquor & wishing that that could help me drown.
Feeling it canโt be right.
Inspired me through the wire,
Hearing this canโt be life,
Knowing better than trust what i havenโt known to be true,
Questioning if a lesson is less if itโs not a bruise.
Whoโd have known a disaster was brewing?
Iโm teaching school
While trying to make me a master of arts,
& my compositions start getting some recognition.
Linking with preme,
Thinking through things,
But really skipping ahead.
Before that happened, i put my foot on that gas,
Then i pressed it,
& when i woke i was living,
& i was mad.
Or thatโs the way i would choose to remember
Losing & given another shot,
So, i learned to aim with precision,
Gained me some vision,
& told myself that i should learn to listen.
[hook] they say that you should be the change you wanna see.
Iโm looking in the mirror,
Canโt even say if who i see is me.
& who can tell if that image is what i want or what iโve been told,
What i have bought or what iโve been sold?
So, i canโt really even tell you if itโs mine.
No, i can only speak to what i find
& lose along the way, & seeing i
Might move differently & decide
If history donโt repeat then it rhymes.
[3] after he was released, & i was out speaking to people asking
โbout how my rapping had turned from a passion to an action
Analogous to my crafting a future
After my crash, & i used it
As a way to not lose me,
What did i gain?
It seems the game he was playing was just a race in that place.
Now iโm reacting to starter pistols where i am.
I told my nephew, โthey hate you because they jealous.โ
& wondered if he would ever really understand what iโm saying.
[laughter]
... thereโs a lively spirit in decatur that makes decatur people worth knowing. for, their town is a town where everybody plays.