Akua Naru - The Offering lyrics

The blackest joy
(The newborn, the elder, the sage
The televangelist)

Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
What do you have to offer?
Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
Lay it at the altar

Uh, I was born an elder in a young world
Thus the terror seasoned ancestor return
Karmic trial and error the debt collector
That birth mark in the mirror find a record
Climb giant steps under the chandelier
Laments for real, your golden seal
Heal broken hearts, carried like
Somebody heard Naima whisper up
In 'Trane's ear
Life and death lovers hidden trained seers
Know your weapon when the rain clears
Choose this body 'cause the spectrum of
The pleasure and the pain fears
That bigger set for this domain to fear
Politics, passionate, poetic, Farrakhan
Shakespeare
Pen the ruckus, ain't no games here
Young Marie used to sing
When Mama say she can't hear
She tuned out when you figure it's time
Reclaim still

Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
What do you have to offer?
Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
Lay it at the altar

National treasure
Stable hand fan the flame better
Into the set, Anita Baker
"Love You to the Letter"
Supreme measures, space and time between eras
Rare phenomenon, prophecy sellers
They ain't tell us
Warning is foreign to the naked eye
Seven points activate at the base of spines
Feed the time
Twenty-two cards waitin' to confide
Mine are savage
Confuse twerk for Jamaican whine
Lord, 'member the night the
Fortune teller died?
Mama heard him callin' over mortals
Our daughters from the other side
Force of the whisper turned to loud cry
Made the baby laugh in his bubble
Bath on a cloud nine
Lives hold the song close
Used to hide my palms behind
Sacred scripts and long chords here and now
Offer it all as you
Standin' at the crossroad, come on

Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
What do you have to offer?
Is you gon' get it right this time?
Is you gon' get it right?
So you gon' get it right this time?
Lay it at the altar