Love Letters

[00:14.76] The drum is never the enemy of the pen
[00:16.30] But when I'm meeting mentally with beat and melody then
[00:18.48] One of me can turn into ten of me
[00:20.00] If there's ten of me, tell me how many heavenly similes can we blend?
[00:22.69] Like women and men would fall with no friends
[00:24.67] Like a rose would fall with no stem
[00:26.35] Like most folks follow trends
[00:27.99] Like Os follow LMNs
[00:29.69] That's how well I know life flows with the elements
[00:31.73] As sunrise kills an evening
[00:33.80] As stars die and a night sky is grieving
[00:35.87] As man sees what he has when it's leaving
[00:38.30] You gone is as asthma to breathing
[00:40.47] That's how much I need you in my life
[00:41.89] I'm never gonna ever leave you in my lifetime
[00:44.24] Cause every time I hear line that shows me I'm not alone it's saving me
[00:47.40] Cause I know that that's a lifeline
[00:48.71] Like minds—this is our home and they won't ruin it easily
[00:51.10] Cause the wolf is gonna blow until he's blue in the cheek
[00:53.02] And me and you and the crew can go take a snooze in the street
[00:55.23] And the bulldozer can come chew on our feet
[00:57.00] We never let em through
[00:58.33] We'll build a levy
[00:58.85] Limit the river's level
[00:59.91] Steady the flood and begin with a pebble
[01:01.23] Lend me one syllable
[01:02.02] Come if you're ready to shovel
[01:03.05] Run if you're shaking
[01:03.82] But I know that today is not my Waterloo
[01:06.86] You've made a place where I'm welcome
[01:08.30] And although I give voice to it seldom
[01:10.69] Know I love you
[01:11.75] Nobody's above you
[01:12.89] And if you love someone then you tell them
[01:15.59] Every day the planet's losing IQ points
[01:17.26] But people still bumping Ice Cube joints
[01:18.95] So I've got hope
[01:20.05] And every day I'm seeking my true voice and looking up at a bright new choice
[01:23.24] Cause everybody's got a hustle and everyone's trying to push it
[01:26.14] It's tricky to find the kush hiking up a mountain of bullshit
[01:28.28] And there's another mountain of bullshit next to it littered with glitter, money
[01:31.34] And strippers they're selling as good shit
[01:33.02] It's nothing new up at the core though
[01:34.48] Everything same as it's always been only more so
[01:36.53] Of course so same token, while there's life there is truth
[01:39.03] While there's truth it demands to be spoken
[01:40.65] And someone's gonna speak it
[01:42.07] It's really not a secret
[01:43.17] You just need to search it
[01:44.19] You just need to seek it
[01:45.38] And though we like to worship a genius in a coffin
[01:47.33] We often forget that there's prophets among us walking
[01:49.52] And I know because I hear em when I am in the clouds
[01:52.08] And I got my music up and jamming it loud
[01:53.69] And dammit whatever I am or could ever become I'm positive that I will
[01:56.71] Always be a fan in the crowd
[01:58.11] So gimme gimme gimme
[01:59.27] Dylan and Biggy
[02:00.03] Hit me with Jimi, Emily Dickinson, Eminem, Niki Giovanni, Lennon, Kendrick, Gambino, Rafa, Chinaka, Dahlak and Missy, Saul and Beau and Paul and Kweli, Chali 2na and Chance and Seneca
[02:07.97] (Go in poet!)
[02:09.63] 86 I was thrown in the mix, saying
[02:11.55] (Go in poet!)
[02:13.26] 86 anyone who would stand in the path of a kid saying
[02:15.89] (Go in poet!)
[02:17.57] 86 bitches, 86 cups full of lean
[02:20.26] (Go in poet!)
[02:21.57] 86 bars, infinity ways to say what I mean
[02:25.17] You've made a place where I'm welcome
[02:26.93] And although I give voice to it seldom
[02:29.11] Know I love you
[02:30.15] Nobody's above you
[02:31.44] And if you love someone then you tell them
[02:33.69] So if you're blocking the future I wanna to walk toward
[02:35.65] Suit yourself we're gonna lock swords
[02:37.19] But it's a wash if you're saying "Watsky I could rock withcha if you didn't talk
[02:40.62] Like some nails on a chalkboard
[02:42.19] I can tell—that you're really on your dope writer tip
[02:44.34] But you'll trip if you don't try to fit
[02:46.09] Maybe you can make it if you ghostwrite a hit
[02:48.26] And sell it to somebody who can ghostride a whip"
[02:50.54] Shieeet—I say no sirree
[02:53.07] I can smell the weak shit through the potpourri
[02:55.38] So I'm just gonna do what I do
[02:57.35] You take a minute or two and Google "Tim and Magoo"
[02:59.56] I love the that life I picked even if it ain't plush
[03:01.77] I'm too glad complain much
[03:03.76] I'm in the lab in a drab world
[03:05.07] While these fuckers dab and do dabs and I dab on my pad with my paintbrush
[03:08.12] This is for the kids whipping up some home-cooked
[03:10.29] Spitting 86 bars, fuckin no hook
[03:12.64] Lying in the grass
[03:13.75] Passion in their chest
[03:14.84] And a ballpoint pressed in their notebook
[03:16.39] Listen to me, this is for the word
[03:17.74] Looking so fine I'm rubbing coconut oil up in the crack of that spine
[03:21.02] This is for the times I'm reminded my mind isn't mine alone
[03:23.95] This is for the poems and the lines
[03:25.30] (And the letters in em)
[03:26.68] (Go in poet!)
[03:28.08] 86 I was thrown in the mix, saying
[03:30.13] (Go in poet!)
[03:31.63] 86 anyone who would stand in the path of a kid saying
[03:34.23] (Go in poet!)
[03:36.12] 86 bitches, 86 cups full of lean
[03:38.79] (Go in poet!)
[03:40.01] 86 bars, infinity ways to say what I mean
[04:01.23] You've made a place where I'm welcome
[04:02.97] And although I give voice to it seldom
[04:05.55] Know I love you
[04:06.13] Nobody's above you
[04:07.33] And if you love someone then you tell them
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