Talib Kweli - Everything Man lyrics

I don't
Remember the first time I heard Kweli
I don't remember what I was doing
There were no remembered witnesses
To my doings
But it seems like I've known him, forever
He who has
Moved through mornings and midnights
Through, deaths and dawns
To document our bones our blood our lives
Listen, listen to his exact wings
Strumming mists from clouds
Listen, listen a man always
Punctual with his, mouth
Listen to his, revolution of syllables
Scoping lightning from his pores
Keeping time, with his hurricane beat
Asking us to pick ourselves
Up and become thunder

Yeah, they say you can't please, everybody


Let's go! yeah, ay
They ain't know what that sound like
Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat
On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat
Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat
On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat

Yo, what becomes of a dream deferred
That never makes it to the world
To be seen or heard do it breathe? Do it got
A heartbeat? Is it alive?
Do it leave only to become a star in the sky?
I believe, no scratch that I know
This ain't my full potential
Only usin' 10 percent of
My mental on instrumentals
But incidentally my, energy heavenly
Can he be so ill there ain't no
Pill or no remedy
The maker of memories posess the
Recipe to your fate
Make no mistake there ain't
No escapin' your destiny
Especially when, 'til death do us part
Like wedding rings
I'll be here forever, put that on e'rything

You're everything, man
You're everything, man

Your Alpha and your Omega
Your beginning and your end
Your father, your brother, your lover
Your friend
The blood in your vein that gets spilled and
Runs in the drain
That's right my flow one and the same
The joy and the pain my name
The burner that destroy the toy and the train
All city all night I'm enjoyin' the fame
I'm a hustler
I'm a gangster and a rebel with
The rank of a general
In the battle between God or the Devil
I lay claim to your spirit, your religion
Your belief system i'll do your hittin'
Your catchin' and your relief pitchin'
This kid proficient in, every position
The man of your dreams and
Your nightmares commandin' your vision
'Til it's quite clear like light beer
Yeah I'm standin right here
I get you hot but stay
Cooler than the night air
I try to fit it in the same rhyme
But realize
I can't be everything to everyone
At the same time

You're everything, man
You're everything, man

First time I heard him, I was in Japan
Seems like the first time I heard
Him was like, the Reflection
Reflection Eternal
Like when Kanye came out I guess
Was when I started to listen
I hate to say that but
New York native, and serious Talib fan
I came all the way from Puerto
Rico just to see Talib Kweli
Him, Mos Def all of them man
I need them out here in my life
It's a rainy morning in New York City