We Are The Revolution-Amir Sulaiman

[ti:We Are The Revolution] [ar:Amir Sulaiman] [al:Like A Thief In The Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]We Are The Revolution - Amir Sulaiman [00:06.02]We are the revolution [00:07.19] [00:07.95]We are the changes in the seasons [00:09.35]Replenishing the earth of her love [00:11.61]We are the scorching hot sun to melt the frozen snow [00:14.88]And hearts turned to stone [00:16.68]We condense to air [00:17.82] [00:18.34]Even the birds make room for us to fly [00:20.85]Higher than they ever could [00:22.53]NASA has always been unnecessary; [00:24.84]Machines cannot take the flight of the Spirit [00:27.30]We are the revolution [00:29.05]Reaching inside ourselves to discard the waste of a destructive ingestion [00:33.05]Reorganizing the function of our organs [00:35.45]Filtering the air for our lungs to breathe [00:38.05]Allowing our ears to hear [00:39.67]Our tongues to taste our hearts to feel [00:41.88]Our minds to think our eyes to see [00:44.03]There isn't a hint of a scent [00:45.66]That we could not detect to prevent us from danger [00:48.09]And direct our anger [00:49.71]We are the revolution [00:50.98] [00:51.52]After having wallowed in the filth and frustration of a Toby experience [00:55.55]We embrace our Roots [00:57.26]Sturdy our stance [00:58.59]And solve this festering problem [01:00.59]That has lingered much too long [01:02.47]And out of the shadows of our divine blackness [01:04.88]A light appears [01:06.24]Hope returns to infancy [01:08.07]Wishes are whimsical limbs [01:09.88]Blowing in the benevolent breeze of change [01:12.29]The change has come [01:13.68]We are the prayers that have been answered [01:15.60]We are the gold refined [01:17.22]We are the climax of a love affair [01:19.51]The grace of a blessing [01:20.67]We are diamonds of a perfect cut [01:22.76]We are the solution [01:24.24]We are the revolution [01:25.68] [01:26.28]We are the revolution [01:27.62] [01:28.27]We are the revolution [01:29.90]Dearly beloved we are created to rise above this [01:33.17]Toxic product this corporate culprit [01:35.99]That's why I speak with a voice somewhere in between [01:38.45]Your pastor in a pulpit and a hijacker in a cockpit [01:42.08]Screaming [01:43.12]We are the revolution [01:44.76]We are the revolution [01:46.49]And my people are so sick [01:48.47]They never really spit so sick [01:50.82]And between brother and brother [01:52.66]The relationship is in crisis; [01:54.58]Our relationships are priceless [01:56.51]But we sell them cheap for whatever the price is [01:59.25]Like a young Cain and Abel [02:00.93]Or the houses of Ismael and Isaac [02:03.23]And we snitch on our brother [02:04.80]Cause thats how them devils entice us [02:06.81]Them cops press your buttons and you [02:08.79]Flip on your sidekick [02:10.12]Quicker than you press the button [02:11.65]When the screen flips on your Sidekick [02:13.88]I'm scrolling through my contacts [02:15.67]In search of the righteous [02:17.10]Praying the Lord send me someone g'd up like Jesus [02:19.97]Flipping over tables in the Temple [02:22.06]Cause that's how real Christ is [02:23.82]And that's how real life is [02:25.67]Al hum du Allah we are the revolution [02:28.21]When we live like this [02:30.47] [02:35.75]We are the revolution [02:37.04]Brothers and sisters ho's and niggas [02:39.67]Hold your soul and listen We are caught in a system [02:42.91] [02:43.74]From the 'hood to the 'burbs [02:45.41]From the church to the curb [02:46.93]From the colleges [02:47.74]Where they teach to the blocks where they serve [02:49.90] [02:51.05]Seeds by fathers are sheep to the slaughter [02:53.67]We've gotta hold our sons and our daughters [02:55.85]Although our fathers ain't bother [02:57.24] [02:58.31]You brothers you sisters [02:59.74]You ho's and you niggas [03:01.24]Hold your soul and listen [03:03.21]We all got to change this system [03:04.96] [03:05.95]From the 'hood to the 'burbs [03:07.55]To the mosque to the curb [03:09.04]From the colleges where they teach [03:10.64]To the blocks where they serve [03:12.45] [03:13.39]You brothers you sisters you ho's and you niggas [03:16.21]Hold your soul and listen [03:18.03]We all got to change this system [03:19.79] [03:41.31]We are the revolution [03:43.00]We are the revolution [03:44.10] [03:44.70]We are the revolution [03:45.78] [03:46.43]We are the revolution [03:47.34] [03:48.35]We are the revolution [03:49.36]We are the revolution [03:50.78] [03:57.25]We are the revolution