Telegram-Saul Williams

[ti:Telegram] [ar:Saul Williams] [al:Saul Williams Live at Double Door 11/08/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Telegram - Saul Williams [00:00.68]Written by：Saul Williams/Miller Jenifer [00:01.27] [00:48.97]I'm fallin' up flights of stairs [00:50.89]Scrapin' myself from the sidewalk [00:52.19] [00:52.69]Jumpin' from rivers to bridges [00:54.30]Drownin' in pure air [00:55.82]Hip hop is lyin' on the side of the road [00:57.64]Half dead to itself [00:58.65]Blood scrawled over its mangled flesh like jazz [01:00.81]Stuffed into an over sized record bag [01:02.48]Tuba lips swollen beyond recognition [01:04.43]Diamond studded teeth strewn like rice at karma's wedding [01:07.87]The ring bearer bore bad news [01:09.11] [01:09.62]Minister of information wrote the wrong proclamation [01:12.08]An' now everyone's singin' the wrong song [01:14.55]Dissonant chords find necks like nooses [01:16.84]That ni**a kicked the chair from under my feet [01:19.01]Harlem shakin' from a rope but still on beat [01:21.64]Damn that loop is tight [01:22.95]That ni**a found a way to sample the way the truth the light [01:25.57]Can't wait to play myself at the party tonight [01:27.83]Niggas are gonna die [01:29.33]Cop car swerves to the side of the road [01:31.53]Hip hop takes its last breath [01:32.94]The cop scrawls vernacular manslaughter on a yellow pad [01:36.16]Then balls the paper into his hand decidin' he'd rather freestyle [01:39.54]You have the right to remain silent [01:41.16]You have the right to remain silent [01:42.89]An' maybe you should have maybe you should have [01:45.57]Before your bullshit manifested [01:46.79]These thugs can't f**k with me they're too thugged out [01:50.15]Niggas think I'm bugged out 'cause I ain't sean john or lugged out [01:53.09]This ain't hip hop no more son it's bigger than that [01:56.13]This ain't ghetto no more black it's bigger than black [01:59.16]So where my aliens at girl we all illegal [02:02.36] [02:02.89]This system ain't for us it's for rich people [02:06.16]An' you ain't rich dawg you just got money [02:09.22]But you can't buy sh*t to not get hungry [02:11.90]Telegram to hip hop [02:13.47]Dear hip hop stop [02:14.84]This sh*t has gone too far stop [02:16.73]Please see that turntables an' mixer are returned to kool herc stop [02:19.70]The ghettos are dancin' off beat stop [02:21.91]The master of ceremonies have forgotten [02:23.38]That they were once slaves and have neglected [02:25.25]The occasion of this ceremony stop [02:26.94]Perhaps we should not have encouraged them [02:28.34]To use cordless microphones [02:29.42]For they have walked too far from the source [02:31.34]An' are emittin' a lesser frequency stop [02:33.12]Please inform all interested parties [02:35.51]That cash nor murder have been included to list of elements stop [02:39.13]We are discontinuin' our line of braggadocio [02:41.37]In light of the current trend in 'realness' stop [02:44.23]As an alternative we will be confiscatin' w**d supplies [02:46.82]An' replacin' them with magic mushrooms [02:48.52]In hopes of helpin' niggas see beyond their reality stop [02:52.20] [02:53.05]Give my regards to brooklyn [02:54.46] [03:07.83]These thugs can't f**k with me they're too thugged out [03:10.81]Niggas think I'm bugged out 'cause I ain't sean john or lugged out [03:13.67]This ain't hip hop no more son it's bigger than that [03:16.74]This ain't ghetto no more black it's bigger than black [03:19.72]So where my aliens at girl we all illegal [03:23.44]This system ain't for us it's for rich people [03:26.88]An' you ain't rich dawg you just got money [03:29.85]But you can't buy sh*t to not get hungry [03:33.27]These cats can't f**k with me I purr purple [03:36.67]Sold increased toe shell like a turtle [03:39.73]I walk the streets like the lie that I'm tellin' [03:43.22]One listener grips me and starts yellin' [03:46.47]I see through speakers I speak what's seen [03:49.07] [03:49.60]I eat and shed I sleep and dream [03:52.78]I walk the streets of london like 'know what I mean [03:56.16]An' chillin' rack a momma eatin' crib soy beans [03:59.17]It's like that