[00:11.124]Light as a feather when I'm floating through[00:13.010]Reading through the daily news[00:14.366]Measuring the hurt within the golden rule[00:16.618]Centimeters of ether I'm heatin' the speaker[00:18.882]Motivational teacher with words that burn people[00:21.740]Seeing the headlines lined with discord[00:24.046]It's either genocide or the planet in uproar[00:26.967]Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice[00:29.637]The best laid plans of mice and men are never right[00:32.521]I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon[00:34.941]An average joe who knows what the f*** is goin' on[00:37.740]Its the hope of my thoughts that I travel upon[00:40.197]Fly like an arrow of God until I'm gone so[00:43.049]Driftin' away like a feather in air[00:45.154]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair[00:47.790]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator[00:50.612]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm[00:53.777]Driftin' away like a feather in air[00:55.727]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair[00:58.398]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator[01:01.259]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm[01:04.143]Taking chances word tap dancing with wolves[01:06.682]In an ice arena out there deep in the woods of arizona[01:10.174]The sun be high life's ironic[01:12.177]Ain't tryin' to be talib when I write[01:13.700]Surreal life I paint it vivid, Habitat, crazy, insane[01:17.294]Watchin' propaganda six o' clock news that are sayin[01:19.909]Cultures clash, poor black folk and white trash[01:22.542]They revel in the cyberspace that might crash[01:25.671]Dash to millennium a million miles of runnin[01:28.022]At the speed of now they'll return gunnin[01:30.757]Rambo style gun-ho child gunning,[01:32.869]Ammo blaow two times loud stunnin[01:36.250]Stunnin' when it hit ya, lift ya off the earth like[01:38.854]Ayo take you right back to birth[01:41.835]And Ni**** wonder why[01:42.981]They might wonder why this sh** might happen but it does, it goes[01:46.379]Driftin' away like a feather in air[01:48.828]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair[01:51.860]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator[01:54.567]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm[01:57.487]Driftin' away like a feather in air[01:59.524]Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair[02:02.367]So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator[02:05.253]Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm[02:07.871]Treat you, better than me 'cause that's the heavenly key[02:10.121]To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be[02:12.825]It's the knowledge of self, understanding of the things around me[02:16.152]That becomes the wisdom that I need[02:18.653]Livin' this life to the best of my ability[02:21.133]Channelin' energy to my thoughts attain symmetry[02:23.935]Remember me, because my proses remain gold[02:26.479]I got the gift of gab like them pimps in Kangols,[02:29.210]It never ends, I keep it rollin' like a cipher[02:31.873]The first cave man bringing fire, innovating it higher[02:35.028]To blast mistakes I raise the stakes[02:37.551]It's double or nothing in this vacuum of space[02:39.949]I will, survive, divine, the time to cry[02:42.328]F*** a hold or hide I'm alive with pride[02:44.827]And I drove the chevy to the levee but the levee was dry[02:48.000]Singing "this will be the day that I die"