Homeboy Sandman - The Ancient lyrics

I be around brothers
Don't be around books enough to
Judge 'em by the covers
They been around cliques enough to
Judge 'em by the colors my inner circle
Circling right above us are the buzzards
Game is just a show, a game show
Look at all the buzzers
On either side of the great
Divide, what's gonna become of, us
False idols pop, something for the clobbers
The rest just need a title shot
Something for the Clubbers
Half these cats are spreading love
But they feeling hunger
Other half are feeling numb
But they're doing numbers
But how can they not feel like
Herbs saying "word to mother"
Then saying a bunch of words that
They'd never say to mother
I'm something like a sweeping
Tide quaking from asunder
I'm something like a sleeping giant
Waking from a slumber
It ain't like 'cause I know the
Ledge I'm talking down to others
It's more like I'm out on the
Ledge talking down the jumpers
If there ain't no God then how you nourished?
But, if you believe in God
Then why you nervous? That's word
It's obvious you better work
On your endurance
If you got trouble working under duress
For all the world to see
Don't get swept up with being current
All the world's a sea
Don't get swept up in the current
Conjuring depictions based on fiction
Takes no courage
If that's your affliction better figure
How to cure it
You could stay up on your little
Piggies or be a hermit either way
Watch out for the piggies like you Kermit
That's easier said than done atop
The Mount that's Vernon
Finding solid footing up atop
A mountain of vermin
Native Louisianans might be lost in
A bottle of bourbon
Visitors to Louisiana might be lost
While out on Bourban
Newark cats take chances out
On Chancellor and Bergen
Every country, every county
Every borough got a burden for certain

When you are blinded it is difficult to seek
It's difficult to dream when it
Is difficult to sleep
Anyplace that's worth going will
Be difficult to reach
That's difficult to learn
Even more difficult to teach
That's why so many characters get
Caught up in between
There's way too many characters to
Put it in a tweet
In days of old kids understood
The concept of a team
Before they were done sucking on the teet
But nowadays it's suckers always
Sucking on they teeth
Does any village wanna raise a child?
No, everybody's smoking
Sometimes I feel like Smokey crying
The tears of a clown enough to form a cloud
If only I could put you in
My shoes to walk a mile
I'll break you out your lust for ka
Ka ching and ka pow
There's no concern for Tao Te Ching
Also known as the Dao
Your peoples are down and out
Don't drown 'em out cause you up in the Dow