Black Thought, Danger Mouse, Michael Kiwanuka - Aquamarine lyrics

Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand, my friend, my friend

We go from Lira to Libra
From cold water to fever
To World War I I I from
The treaty signed in Geneva
The biology teacher said we
Used to be amoebas
The neighborhood preacher said we
Emerged from the ether
We converged from urethra and struck gold
Eureka
The morning star Tariq
I was born to be a teacher
Whether scorpion or the frog
The nature of the creature
Is to evolve
Though it's the savage beast we truly are
My words should be studied up
In Berklee and Juilliard
All my bars is hard as solid gold bullion
My name in the Quran like
The kingdom of Suleiman
You done lost your mind trying
To call me a moulinyan
'Cause in 2-1-5 where folks fight depression
And wives pack protection
Lives lack direction
I'm a king
I'm dipped in God's Black complexion
Survival of the fittest is
The natural selection
Now, bear down on the scene like I'm Saladin
The stone courage esteem is aquamarine
You mask how you really
Feel like it's Halloween
Where they ask how you really
Feel about my machine
In a class that I'm only in
Alien, horsepower like a Mongolian
Tryna find soul again
But my thoughts corrupt the files
That contaminate the console again
It's a shame, but I cannot complain
Though I am not the same
My bandwidth is a canvas cut from His frame
When I present ideas, naked and unashamed
It's handwritten in Sanskrit on a 7 Train

Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand, my friend, my friend

I've been through hoodies and sneakers
To beepers and record features
Hustlin' nicks of reefer to
Tusslin' with the reaper
Sensory deprivation to ultimate synesthesia
Freein' our brothers' keeper from
Teeth of another creature
Breakin' and enterin' to the theater
The search and seizure
Is the worth of genius
Somewhere between Earth and Venus
At her convenience
Even non-believers make prayers
Haters and naysayers is buried in cake layers
I take day as a blessing and
See the night as a lesson
Twilight is a message for me
To write a confession
The matrix, a dominatrix seeking to be served
Ever patiently waiting with the
Demons we deserve
Better be willing to pay with
Every dream that you deferred
If the vehicle should swerve
Learn to lean into the curve
After workin' up the nerve
Almost equal in size
I walked around with the iron
For any wrinkle in time
I pay the piece of my mind
For every nickel and dime
But never less than a five and
Never slept on the job
A killer dumped on your squad
Yet never left the garage
When your God was close enough to
See the flesh of his eyes
Get to the button and press
It's what the message advised
What's a threat? Behind a mess
Is where the testament lies

Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand, my friend, my friend