Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun lyrics

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(What you say)

(Take you a little bit higher)

(What you say, 3X)

I like the snares loud enough to
Make your eyes blink from it
Only male with the Holy Grail, drink from it
I keep an eye on heaven and
A ear to the street
And spread a thick layer of blood
Sweat and tears on the beats
My brain rest upon the Hip-Hop lexicon
That I acquired in the decade of
Work that people slept upon i don't rap
I recite the prayers of the inner soul
Of the slave ships' human cargo
Seemingly meaningless rappers flood


The market with shit that make me pace in my
Room until I rip the carpet
I'm fit to start up this next millennium
Swingin the grappling hook at cackling
Crooks to finish em the city dweller sendin
Telegrams from Neverland
The better man, kind now
Kindly join the caravan
We're like a rock band that pack contraband
And won't hesitate to stomp a man
Into the rocks and sand brother Ali
And if you haven't heard about me
I'm flyin just beneath your radar
So y'all can doubt me
Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds
There's a ladder you're supposed to climb
Approach a Rhymesayer with a
Buggsy Siegel sized ego
You gon' get yourself snatched out the sky
You know the steelo
By now, where, what, why and how
We start the revolution real time, right now

Yes, leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
Just leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall, my inner light shall

I rhyme for cats up in the harbor lights
Prayin they don't starve tonight
And stay positive in the face
Of a harder life
My chorus light the torch for those
On whom the sun set
Verses meant to speak for the voiceless
So let us never be dismayed or afraid
The ground we're walkin on is stained
With the blood of those before us who came
Soldiers in this freedom movement are
Too numerous to name
Cause the human soul yearns to be free
It's all the same
I rhyme for runaways prayin that
They see another day
You gotta make it through the winter
To feel some summer days
It's for my natives
It's history in the way their hair is braided
Elephants never forget
That's how they say it

And tell him that the tests
We get are heaven-sent
Listen, I rap for the ones that
Johnny Cash wore, the black, for
Black and white women that
Were turned to crackhores
And I empty everything in the
Bank to give for it
I empty all the days of my
Life to live for it
And I empty all the blood in
My veins to fight for it
So I empty all the ink in
This pen to write for it

Yes, leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
Just leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall, my inner light shall

I glance in the sky and
See the same cloud configuration
That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him
Resisted in the face of adversity with
A fist and it was raised
One finger extended, meaning Allah be praised
Spent days in Heaven's embassy
On Qu'ran pages Allah explains this legacy
Angels doubted Adam
Jacob's brothers clapped him
And ancient Pharaohs were too
Brutal to fathom
If all the earth's oceans were ink
And the trees were pens
You could never write the knowledge of God
It never ends and I know it feels like the
Whip wounds will never mend
But, it's the way of makin
The oppressed prevalent men
We standin with humanity at destiny's door
Chanting the war cry, it goes
"Never no more"
So if y'all tryina talk about
The horrors you see
Feel free to tell your stories through me

Yes, leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
Just leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
Leave it to me to create
Hope where there was none
My inner soul shall, my inner light shall

There's only one God and he's not just above
There's only one man and
There's only one love
Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed
For that y'all, we willin to bleed
There's only one God and he's not just above
There's only one woman and
There's only one love
We doin this till all of
Adam's children are freed
And for that y'all, we willin to bleed