Are You Can You Were You-Shabazz Palaces

[ti:Are You Can You Were You] [ar:Shabazz Palaces] [al:Black Up] [by:] [offset:0] [00:56.97]It's a feeling x10 [01:13.93]I woke up to it [01:15.12]Heavy a light with trueness [01:17.36]Always a way of losing [01:18.98]Compelled to knew it [01:20.11]My body traveled [01:21.17]My mind waits behind the music [01:23.30]My crime bemuses [01:24.54]Relax inside my shiny blueness [01:26.61]Time: I understand it [01:28.24]But I never choose it [01:29.68]I can't explain it with words [01:31.98]I have to do it [01:33.18]The ship I came here on vanished [01:35.24]We automatic [01:36.36]Don't try to plan it [01:37.74]But chyeah just when it comes handle it [01:39.92]Behind the lessons [01:40.99]Miles beneath the slick dressing [01:42.99]Niggas is stressing [01:44.18]Bout sh*t they should be sure they guessing [01:46.36]I twirl and cool and peel the rear view cause they are arresting [01:49.61]But wear jumpsuit and chinese slippers--I'm still impressive [01:52.93]Up on the racks [01:54.24]Old school cat from way back [01:56.05]Gave him my meal cause he's not wiping off that's my impression [01:58.99]He asked me how you float all sharp and always have a fresh one [02:02.99]And seem to know the answer to the most proverbial questions [02:06.05]I told him Wangechi swirled it in a book of sketches [02:09.49]I find the diamonds underneath the subtlest inflections [02:12.93]Aw dude [02:13.93]The spicier the food [02:15.55]When you chew f**k they rules [02:17.30]It's a feeling x8 [02:32.48] [02:55.74]At a tender age [02:56.49]We learn to turn the page [02:57.93]To mind the screen and stage [02:59.31]To see who got the glaze [03:01.18]To hustle up or fade [03:01.99]Either get made or played [03:04.80]Find your spot in the shade [03:05.68]And ni**a get paid [03:06.30]So we internalize that [03:07.37]But then we customize that [03:09.05]By the relationship between where our ground and our sky's at [03:12.11]I slowed it down once [03:13.49]Everyone was going fast [03:15.06]So I sped up cause I ain't one to reach the end last [03:17.87]To where the grimy sparkles [03:19.11]Amongst the shiny talkers [03:20.62]The pistol-poppers that make pretty noise and get them dollars [03:23.55]And while the world watches [03:24.87]We send our street scholars [03:26.37]To bust some presidents in hundred-thousand-dollar watches [03:29.37]Some of the feds got us [03:30.81]Some of us dead 'lotta us [03:32.24]Still solid though using all the lips the streets taught us [03:35.24]And what that heat cost us [03:36.68]And what that loss gave us [03:38.12]F**king with the people is always gonna come back around [03:40.74]It's about to be [03:41.55]Big movements from below [03:42.74]The golden age lies ahead [03:44.17]Struck [03:45.24]Goes [03:45.74]Pro- [03:46.24]Ceed [03:46.74]You can't lie to yourself [03:48.37]You can't lie how it felt [03:52.43]No surprise how the cards gettin dealt [03:54.67]That's why [03:56.37]I won't be back for a long time