Talk to Strangers-Saul Williams

[ti:Talk To Strangers] [ar:Saul Williams] [al:Saul Williams] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.62]Talk To Strangers - Saul Williams [00:01.85]Written by：Serj Tankian/Saul Williams [00:03.47] [00:07.04]Nah [00:07.21]I wasn't raised at gunpoint and I've read too many books [00:09.67]To distract me from the mirror when unhappy with my looks [00:12.89]And I ain't got proper diction for the makings of a thug [00:15.87]Though I grew up in the ghetto and [00:17.75]My niggers all sold drugs [00:19.12]And though that may validate me for a [00:20.75]Spot on MTV [00:22.10]Or get me all the airplay that [00:23.82]My bank account would need [00:25.18]I was hoping to invest in a lesson [00:27.27]That I learned [00:28.29]I thought this fool had jumped me [00:29.87]Just because it was my turn [00:31.51]I went to an open space 'cause [00:32.98]I knew he wouldn't do it [00:34.12]If somebody there could see him or [00:36.01]Somebody else might prove it [00:37.67]And maybe in your eyes [00:38.66]It may seem I got punked out [00:40.14]'Cause I walked a narrow path and [00:41.96]Then went and changed my route [00:43.40]But that openness exposed me to a [00:45.00]Truth I couldn't find [00:46.17]In the clenched fists of [00:47.38]My ego or the confines of my mind [00:49.46]Or the hipness of my swagger or the swagger in my step [00:52.50]This scowl of my grimace or the meanness of my rep [00:55.49]'Cause we represent a truth [00:56.48]Son the changes by the hour [00:58.70]And when you open to it vulnerability is power [01:01.71]And in that shifting form you'll find a truth [01:03.63]That doesn't change [01:04.66]And that truth is living proof of the fact [01:06.71]That god is strange [01:07.38]Talk to strangers [01:08.49]When the family fails and friends [01:09.69]Lead you astray [01:10.71]When buddha laughs and jesus weeps and [01:12.37]It turns out god is gay [01:13.80]'Cause angels and messiahs [01:15.15]Love can come in many forms [01:16.76]In the hallways of your projects or [01:18.39]The fat girl in your dorm [01:19.89]And when you finally take the time to see what they're about [01:22.78]Perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom [01:25.02]Trips you out [01:25.88] [01:27.71]Maybe you'll find where cycles end [01:29.00]You're back where you began [01:30.37]But come this time around [01:31.44]You'll have someone to hold your hand [01:33.20]Who prays for you who is there for [01:34.89]You who sends you love and light [01:36.78]Exposes you to parts of you that you [01:38.41]Once tried to fight [01:39.28] [01:39.88]And come this time around [01:40.81]You'll choose to walk a different path [01:42.49]You'll embrace what you turned away and [01:44.11]Cry at what you laughed [01:45.83]'Cause that's the only way we're going to make it [01:47.65]Through this storm [01:48.59]Where ignorance is common sense and [01:50.49]Senselessness the norm [01:51.90]And flags wave high above the truth and the two never touch [01:54.81]And stolen goods are overpriced and [01:56.44]Freedom costs too much [01:57.92]And no one seems to recognize the symbols come to life [02:00.91]The bitten apple on the screen and jesus [02:02.81]Had a wife [02:04.06]And she was his messiah like that [02:05.33]Stranger may be yours [02:07.18]Who holds a subtle knife that carves [02:08.75]Through worlds like magic doors [02:10.13] [02:11.40]And that's what I've been [02:12.25]Looking for the bridge from then to now [02:14.57]Just watching bet like what the f**k son [02:16.72]This is foul [02:17.59]But that square box don't represent [02:19.16]The sphere that we live in [02:20.67]The earth is not a flat screen [02:21.98]I ain't trying to fit in [02:23.75]But this ain't for the underground [02:24.92]This here is for the sun [02:26.85]A seed a stranger gave to me and [02:28.27]Planted on my tongue [02:29.98]And when I look at you I know [02:31.72]I'm not the only one [02:33.10] [02:33.76]As a great man once said [02:35.28]There's nothing more powerful [02:37.13]Than an idea [02:38.55]Who's time [02:40.14]Has come