Quelle Chris, Chris Keys, Big Sen, Merrill Garbus, Denmark Vessey, Earl Sweatshirt - MIRAGE lyrics

Stepped out like Scooby-Doo and the gang
With a sack of treats as the case completes
The villains knew the name
We was stuffin' chillums with that lame
Back when dime sacks was the thing
Now we glide 'cross skies like Liu Kang
No shame we carried the state on our back
Like new quarter change
Rats was at 'em like Elmira to Maximillian
I was focused on the craft
I knew racks was in the cards (I knew it)
Sorta mutant
I seemed to see through the ceilings
Some homies hid under tables
My head was up in the stars
(Up in the stars, nigga) that's real large
I know niggas that caved in but still gods
Some said it's pre-programmed
Some state it's up to Allah
You ask me, it's all part the mirage
Ah ha ha!
Who's that? It's Chris and Q in the Subaru

Don't think that far who's that?
No, whoa said it's the cure and the super
Ooh ooh, hey mirage yeah yeah, hey hey hey
Mirage yeah yeah, uh, ooh mirage

I thought I saw a fountain
I thought I saw me on the
Other side of the see-saw mounted
Bouncing, on the up-and-up, countin' downers
The rate flounder-flat to bring you
'round the bend and back but now what?
The hour's not a alibi, doesn't add up
You outta time
Fried like halibut with two sides
Smizing for the camera, I surmise
The lie what did the damage
Had to leave you with a treatise, was signed
And switched the plan up
Boundaries get redefined
I read the vines, it's a
Madness, we hacking limes, sink my teeth
Way past the meat into the
Rind when I grab it
The bittersweetness of times I
Wish to capture abandon reason for the slime
Of greener pastures they tried to leave me
Couldn't find me when I finally answered
Tiny dancer
Hold me closer, don't be sliding backwards
Forward further like AKAI told
Me on the tollway
The soles planted, the hands scrape the sky
(yeah yeah, oh)
When the chances that the Medevacs
Left was hella high
We hit the tavern for some gin and rye
Whiskey gingerly applied (Ooh, ooh)
The image shifted side to
Side in the distance
You tripping over lines (Ooh, hey)
Slipping, we been to

Yeah yeah, hey
Don't think it wasn't when it was
He's no mirage mirage in the darkness
Yeah yeah, oh we all wise

Oh yeah, hit me in the heart one day
It's just words
A string of letters I smashed together
Some random sequence calls to
Cast the weather
InSh'Allah could last forever
I don't have to be here
But I made it through through a maelstrom
The director's cut might not even
Make the album cut
That's where the melanated
Melancholy style's from
Fly, birdie, fly, be as wise as the owl
Keep the eye of the falcon
That's eyein' the sparrow
I know my daughter's watching
I know you watch me i know the times rocky
I know it's hard to remember, it blurred
December was brrr (Mm, mm)
My ten toes dig in the dirt
Feeling the earth
I'm willing to merch, fourth quarter, final
Moxie (Ooh ooh, hey)
It was dark, like the light forgot me
Oh Lord, then a spark (Hey hey hey)
Innocent of sins, rosemary when reality bit
It pierced my heart
But lifted hardships, my soul carried
A voice close near me, said
"Don't be so scary" "Enjoy your thirties"
Listen, I'm still looking for father figures
(Ah ah, ah)
Around me, in even niggas who clowned me
(Ah ah, ah) the last laugh is a nectar
But the sweetest get back
Is being completely free (Facts)
Completely me
The smell of burnt sage, let the seasons reap
Don't overthink it, breathe deep frequently

Don't think it wasn't when it was
He's no mirage the mirage
Yeah yeah, yay mirage
The mirage yeah yeah, ahh
Mm-mm, yay yeah yeah, yay
Yeah yeah, ahh do do hmm mmm, yay
Yeah yeah, yay yeah yeah, aww

Yeah, feels good to be back i spend most
Of my days now in my garden, growing
Food and medicinal plants and
Shit that we smoking
On now-type-of-thing, and pondering
The next moves, you know what I'm saying?
Like, what the fuck is going on out here?
We all know something is, you know
Around the corner and we
Feel it in our souls it's
Manifesting it'self in our
Art, even the movies we
Make are largely dystopian
Post-apocalyptic i think we all
Just trying to make sense of it somehow and
That's cool sometimes
It just be them seasons
Predatory capitalism and all the -isms
You know what I'm saying? And err'ybody's
Fed up and people don't know what to do
So we make our art and art is beautiful but
Art is also the truth so we
Know you know come on
You know you know you know you know
So what are you doing about
It? Most people's just waiting
For something to happen without
Even preparing for anything
You know what I'm saying?
Right now, Ukraine, power off venezuela
They shut the power off just this week, 44
Million people, South America, power off
That's how we start modern warfare
Nowadays we just cut your
Power and your internet off
Give that one week
Without the little faucet running
And your little water
Coming out and your 'frigerator not being
On and shit and your diabetes medication not
Being cold and you assed out
Make your actions match your
Ambitions to survive you
Need to get ready like we are that
Means being in shape that means being in
Touch with your ancestors
And your spirituality, you feel me?
What’s gon’ come to pass is what’s
Gon’ come to pass all that
Voting and all that shit you
Can do that, that’s cool, but
That ain’t gon’ stop it it’s
It’s already on the way, you know
What I’m saying? So, just buckle
Up have a good time
You know? Security is largely a superstition
It does not exist in nature
Life is either a grand adventure or
Nothing, baby go have your adventure
'cause I’m having mine
Big Sen, peace out, one love

Yeah yeah, yay yeah yeah, aww