Own Light (What Hearts Are For)-Brother Ali

[ti:Own Light (What Hearts Are For)] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:All The Beauty In This Whole Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Own Light (What Hearts Are For) (自己的光（内心为了谁）) - Brother Ali [00:17.71]You're not using your heart for [00:19.15] [00:20.19]What hearts are for [00:21.38]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [00:23.38] [00:25.05]I thank god for healing [00:26.45]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:28.65] [00:30.56]Thank god for listening listen [00:32.35]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [00:34.07] [00:35.90]I thank god for building [00:37.32]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:39.61] [00:41.44]I thank god I'm living [00:42.42] [00:42.92]Sometime I feel like a stranger maybe I ain't from here [00:45.80]World going crazy how could that be unclear [00:48.57]Know that I'm a soldier heart's on my battleground [00:51.31]Sword in the holster had to come back around [00:54.23]I ain't trying to hide away I just had to meditate [00:56.76]I ain't got a lot to say but the ancestors may [00:59.62]Speaking to the whole globe numbers don't occur to me [01:02.07]You can listen solo 'cause you're the whole world to me [01:05.15]I jump in with both feet nothing low key [01:07.30]You can find me where I'm s'posed be where my folks be [01:10.10]If you listen very closely you know who chose me [01:12.87]Nothing that I own owns me and so I'm so free [01:15.48]I remember being hungry needing groceries [01:18.25]Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed [01:21.03]Got a message to the police [01:22.10] [01:22.74]You're not using your heart for what hearts are for [01:26.73]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [01:28.80] [01:30.44]I thank god for healing [01:31.88]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [01:34.08] [01:35.93]Thank god for listening listen [01:37.68]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [01:39.63] [01:41.29]I thank god for building [01:42.76]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [01:44.93] [01:46.85]I thank god I'm living [01:47.83] [01:48.56]Not for one second I believe what you're telling me [01:51.19]I know you invented disease and sell the remedy [01:53.97]Universe is sending me centuries of memories [01:56.20] [01:56.70]So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need [01:59.46]I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree [02:02.15]Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies [02:04.71]Ain't worry bout ya threatening me I'm just being honest [02:07.64]I ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left [02:10.38]We just want to make love 'til we wake up [02:12.87]I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness [02:15.65]And you know they want to paint us with the same brush [02:18.39]Wanna interchain us 'til we fill our grave up [02:20.94]Alright okay but when it's all said and it's all done [02:24.04]And I look back at the trophies I won [02:26.48]I will only count one [02:27.58] [02:28.82]I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [02:32.22]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [02:34.27] [02:35.91]I thank god for healing [02:37.25]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [02:39.49] [02:41.33]Thank god for listening listen [02:43.22]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [02:45.00] [02:46.78]I thank god for building [02:48.21]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [02:50.46] [02:52.21]I thank god I'm living [02:53.54]And I know who I am [02:54.99]I know whose I am [02:56.42]On your wings I fly [02:57.69]And in your shoes I stand [02:59.23]I'm animated by love I don't move by chance [03:01.93]Any stage I touch or any place I stand [03:04.63]There y'all land living in the world as it is [03:07.35]Cracked vessel I am no more and no less than a man [03:10.72]Any po-sessions that I have are just in my hand [03:13.81]I'm balancing the best that I can [03:15.48]I'm not making no claims but [03:16.75] [03:17.73]I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [03:20.98] [03:21.66]All the beauty in this whole life uh [03:24.98]I thank god for healing [03:26.27]And you ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [03:28.57] [03:30.07]I thank god for listening listen [03:32.12]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [03:34.12] [03:35.80]I thank god for building [03:37.25]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [03:39.44] [03:41.26]I thank god I'm living [03:42.70]Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life