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Friday, June 25, 2010

We, Myself and I

One of my favorite songs off of Shad's new album.






Well there’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’, but there’s an ‘I’ in ‘win’
And every guy wanna win so folks is eyeing him
The ‘I’ in ‘pride’
They say pride puts the ‘I’ in ‘sin’ – puts self in the centre
I and I come in
’cause I am imperfect, none of us is iron men
Please be my third eye when the light gets dim
Even my story’s not mine, where do I begin
Not with ‘I’, I’m reminded see the ‘I’ in Him
In my enemy especially
Him and I are twins
Gotta love him as I love I
Him and I are kin
Take the thing outta my own eye
Then see if the word is where the world begin
Then at the end of the word ‘friend’ is where I end
And all men become I, and I them
So who am I then?
Just dust in the wind
With a pen and a grin
I’m goin’ in (you goin’ in?)
I’m goin’ in like, yes

Chorus: We all in agreement/ If you hear the song and you feel it/ put your palms to the ceiling like yes/ yes, everybody/ yes x 2

What can I say for myself?
Where I’m at ain’t where I stationed myself
So I’m grateful I do okay for myself
I wanna do better for y’all
I’m afraid of myself
God said, ‘You trust me,
now have some faith in yourself’
When I made my first record
I would say to myself
I’m glad to share this
I don’t wanna just play for myself
The thing with rappin is
It helps me get away from myself
Go put these thoughts and feelings out
So they don’t stay on the shelf
Stay in my soul
’cause I find the more I stay to myself
The less I find the real me
The more I stray from myself
And can’t relate to no one else
I don’t have to make a way for myself
Just make my thoughts point away from myself
And what else

(Chorus)

We are
Greater than the sum of us
All greater than the some of us
Greater than each piece or part
We are a body, an army
Greater than any single art piece (peace)
And love in our hearts
And we are who we are behind doors in secret
In our deep depths and recesses
We aren’t free yet
We are how we treat our sick folks and widows
The rich with broken hearts
The broke and the crippled
And the soul that’s weak
We are not what we eat
But what comes out of our mouths when we speak
Most of y’all don’t speak truth
Can’t play me, playboy
I’m no kid- I don’t play Wii
We are parents
Cherished
Proud and embarrased
We’ve come a long way, but we’re still not there yet
And we don’t always get along
Me, myself and I
When we do, we in tune like the song
Singing, yes…
(Chorus)

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