Jay Electronica - Nights of the Roundtable (first draft skeleton) lyrics
[Jay Electronica - Nights of the Roundtable first draft skeleton lyrics]
I think that, you know, for the most part
That was that old
Way of thinking that old guard
That this music is here
This music is here if we
Take away all the titles
Of music you take away that this is rock
And roll, this is country, this
Is blues, this is jazz
And we strip it down -it's
Just the same thing you
Know, at it's core, it's just
About human emotion, you know
It's about passion, it's about
Pain, it's about fear
It's about aspiration you know we're
All basically the same
Never in the field of human
Conflict was so much
Been owed by so many to so few
It took a lifetime to learn how to live
Another lifetime to learn how to give
It took 34 trips around the hot
Sun to land me here
That's why every ear that
Hears understand me clear i'm not a rapper
I'm like an angel on the mountaintop
The healing power of God is
Felt in every fountain drop (murmuring)
I was not myself last night
In the morning light
I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor staring
At the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor
Calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing
Our father, take these wings
Show me a star that will make me sing
Change lives like Kanye, JAY-Z, andré
We can get fly and be free by Monday
(murmuring)
My grandmother paid dues in the church
For years I paid dues in the dirt
(murmuring)
I cried many tears, I had many fears
I didn't have many peers (murmuring)
I was not myself last night
In the morning light
I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor
Staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor
Calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing uh, huh, uh
Keep it moving uh, gotta keep it moving
Uh, I keep it- uh, I keep it- uh uh, uh
That was that old
Way of thinking that old guard
That this music is here
This music is here if we
Take away all the titles
Of music you take away that this is rock
And roll, this is country, this
Is blues, this is jazz
And we strip it down -it's
Just the same thing you
Know, at it's core, it's just
About human emotion, you know
It's about passion, it's about
Pain, it's about fear
It's about aspiration you know we're
All basically the same
Never in the field of human
Conflict was so much
Been owed by so many to so few
It took a lifetime to learn how to live
Another lifetime to learn how to give
It took 34 trips around the hot
Sun to land me here
That's why every ear that
Hears understand me clear i'm not a rapper
I'm like an angel on the mountaintop
The healing power of God is
Felt in every fountain drop (murmuring)
I was not myself last night
In the morning light
I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor staring
At the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor
Calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing
Our father, take these wings
Show me a star that will make me sing
Change lives like Kanye, JAY-Z, andré
We can get fly and be free by Monday
(murmuring)
My grandmother paid dues in the church
For years I paid dues in the dirt
(murmuring)
I cried many tears, I had many fears
I didn't have many peers (murmuring)
I was not myself last night
In the morning light
I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor
Staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor
Calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing uh, huh, uh
Keep it moving uh, gotta keep it moving
Uh, I keep it- uh, I keep it- uh uh, uh