Shadows On The Sun-Brother Ali

[ti:Shadows On The Sun] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Shadows On The Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali [00:01.03]We'd like to capture your minds right now [00:03.61] [00:04.58]What you say [00:05.26] [00:06.63]Take you a little bit higher [00:07.90] [00:10.24]What you say [00:10.73] [00:12.99]What you say [00:13.45] [00:15.72]What you say [00:16.18] [00:20.03]I like the snares loud enough [00:21.01]To make your eyes blink from it [00:22.77]Only male with the holy grail drink from it [00:25.88]I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street [00:28.45]And spread a thick layer of blood [00:30.04]Sweat and tears on the beats [00:31.02]My brain rest upon the hiphop lexicon [00:34.48]That I acquired in the decade of work [00:36.04]That people slept upon [00:37.36]I don't rap I recite the prayers of the inner soul [00:39.93] [00:40.59]Of the slaveships' human cargo [00:42.75]Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market [00:45.09]With sh*t that make me pace in my room [00:47.24]Until I rip the carpet [00:48.11] [00:48.70]I'm fit to start up this next millennium [00:50.53]Swingin' the grappling hook [00:51.43] [00:52.11]At cackling crooks to finish em [00:53.98]The city dweller singin' telegrams from neverland [00:56.58]The better man kind now kindly join the caravan [00:58.87] [00:59.76]We're like a rock band that pack contraband [01:01.54] [01:02.11]And won't hesitate to stomp [01:03.63]A man into the rocks and sand [01:05.27]Brother Ali and if you haven't heard about me [01:07.68]I'm flyin' just beneath your [01:09.41]Radar so y'all can doubt me [01:10.83]Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds [01:13.80]There's a ladder you're supposed to climb [01:15.71]Approach a rhymesayer with a buggsy siegel sized ego [01:18.54]You gon' get yourself snatched out [01:20.30]The sky you know the steelo [01:21.40]By now where what why and how [01:23.64] [01:24.34]We start the revolution real time right now [01:26.95]Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none [01:30.29]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [01:33.07]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [01:35.98]My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun [01:38.62]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [01:41.55]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [01:44.22]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [01:47.06]My inner soul shall my inner light shall [01:49.30]I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights [01:50.80]Prayin' they don't starve tonight [01:52.67]And stay positive in the face of a harder life [01:54.99]My chorus light the torch [01:56.28]For those on whom the sun set [01:57.96]Verses meant to speak for the voiceless [01:59.85] [02:00.49]So let us never be dismayed or afraid [02:02.60]The ground we're walking on is stained [02:04.25]With the blood of those before us who came [02:06.14]Soldiers in this freedom [02:06.92]Movement are too numerous to name [02:08.99]Cause the human soul yearns [02:10.16]To be free it's all the same [02:11.57]I rhyme for runaways prayin' [02:13.10]That they see another day [02:14.07] [02:14.58]You gotta make it through [02:15.53]The winter to feel some summer days [02:17.04]It's for my natives [02:18.20]It's history in the way their hair is braided [02:20.34]Elephants never forget that's how they say it [02:22.81]Tell my man hasim in prison [02:24.24]Keep grinnin' because he's innocent [02:25.89]And tell him that the tests we get are heavensent [02:28.16]Listen I rap for the ones that [02:29.82]Johnny cash wore the black for [02:31.64]Black and white women [02:32.48]That were turned to crack whores [02:34.12]And I empty everything in the bank to give for it [02:37.00]I empty all the days of my life to live for it [02:39.70]And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it [02:42.60]So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it [02:44.99]Yes leave it to me to create [02:46.99]Hope where there was none [02:48.33]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [02:50.67] [02:51.25]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [02:54.02]My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun [02:56.72]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [02:59.01] [02:59.61]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [03:01.98] [03:02.51]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [03:05.16]My inner my inner my inner my inner [03:07.62]Yes I glance in the sky and see [03:09.16] [03:09.67]The same cloud configuration [03:11.16]That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him [03:13.00]Resisted in the face of adversity [03:14.51]With a fist and it was raised [03:16.73]One finger extended meaning allah be praised [03:19.25]Spent days in heaven's embassy [03:21.14]On Koran pages allah explains this legacy [03:24.67]Angels doubted adam Jacob's brothers clapped him [03:27.09]And ancient pharaohs were too brutal to fathom [03:29.21] [03:29.71]If all the earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pens [03:32.55]You could never write the knowledge of god it never ends [03:34.91] [03:35.58]And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend [03:38.26]But it's the way of god makin' the oppressed prevalent men [03:41.05]We standin' with humanity at destiny's door [03:43.79]Chanting the war cry it goes never no more [03:46.03] [03:46.58]So if y'all tryna talk about the horrors you see [03:49.33]Feel free to tell your stories through me [03:51.32] [03:52.22]Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none [03:55.39]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [03:58.16]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [04:00.40] [04:01.00]My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun [04:03.25] [04:03.76]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [04:06.56]The human being shall cast shadows on the sun [04:09.23]Leave it to me to create hope where there was none [04:12.11]My inner soul shall my inner life shall [04:14.35]There's only one God and he's not just above [04:17.42]There's only one man and there's only one love [04:19.61] [04:20.18]Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed [04:23.02]For that y'all we willing to bleed [04:24.60] [04:25.69]There's only one God and he's not just above [04:28.56]There's only one woman and there's only one love [04:31.35]We doin' this till all of Adam's children are freed [04:34.07]And for that y'all we willin' to bleed