Greenhouse, Angelica Lee, Toki Wright - Only You lyrics

I am the footprints of my ancestors
Throughout the sands of time
The lineage of the pyramids with
An axe to grind
The shards of the broken promises of
Mankind that slice the feet
Of the meek and those whose
Pros will never be defined
I am poet with verbiage and
Cursive on the frontlines
Blood of fallen soldiers
Glistening in the sunrise
Tomorrow's morning as tonight dies
Remnants of an evening breeze
The offspring of a moonlit sky
I am human being asinine
Lost on an endless search to find mine
I am truth fighting temptation
Alight with lies the more that I try
The harder it is to dismantle the disguise
My mother's tears, my wife's smile
My son's eyes
My father's fear, my brother's laugh
My grandma's drive
My friend's beef, the world's pain
I need sleep
I'm too deep when all I really need
To be is who I am

Only you know what you can be
What they do don't change what you can see
Nothing they can tell you
Everything is brand new

I grew up in South Bus Town
The youngest of four
Was taught to have class even if you was poor
Pops gone by middle school
He was drunk at the bar
You could smell it on his breath soon
As he walked through the door
To put food on the table
Mom's hustle was pure
I go hard 'cause I don't wanna
See you struggle no more she said, "Son
I like Ohio but it's time to move on
Your granddad's down south and
The weather is warm
If you can help me get there
I can sell you this home
Been here for fifty years
Puttin' up with this cold
It get deep in your bones
And your muscles is soar"
I made it happen, cap'n
When I got back from the tour
'cause when it came to the kids
Their only way was to give
And the way that she live is
Gonna shape who he is
I share a lot on record
But not my family biz
You can't invade where my sanity is
It's grown man shit

Only you know what you can be
What they do don't change what you can see
Nothing they can tell you
Everything is brand new

From the twelfth largest state
Twenty-first largest population
Mister Right Alright
You know me from my occupation
Almost died in '99, I had an operation
I been waiting for this moment
But, I lost my patience
Used to sneak out of the crib so I could
Kick it on the corner with these kids
'round the corner from the place I lived
Now I've grown and I don't really kick it
I just work to get my
Family to a safer place
Now let me state my business
No play an eighth of scrimmage
I got a baby I can only
See a couple times a week
Really it's kinda deep
And this economy got me out Econo
Lodge like I don't need
All of the stars to still
Get all of y'all's applause
Been in it for the cause
And never just because
Open scars inside my palms 'til
I adjust the gauze
Open scars on prison walls 'til
They adjust them laws
Get accosted by the law and ask 'em
"What's the charge?"
I've been abroad to Africa with children
From the war that have
Been forced to kill their brother
Right in front their ma
No one has me feeling funny
When I'm at the mall
I shoulda wrote that song long
Ago 'cause that's my job
I live inside the television
With the captions on
Feeling like I cracked the mirror
At the crack of dawn
And stay strong long enough to
Get my cap and gown
Toki Wright, Greenhouse Effect, ask around

Only you know what you can be
What they do don't change what you can see
Nothing they can tell you
Everything is brand new
Only you know what you can be
What they do don't change what you can see
Nothing they can tell you
Everything is brand new