The Darkest Part

Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you find the worst thing they can't see Though they say they'll take your pain Don't give it away Yo I'm like Thelonious at the underground piano Dressed in camo, the grenades, guns and ammo Death to sambo, send 'em a bouquet and a candle I came to take back that of the two-fifths of a man, so From a silhouette standing in the aperture To a figure-head standing in the path of a killer Young gorilla just scrambling for Africa Crept and will accept nothing but a massacre Premonition of intuition is a bitch Y'all, a message from the heavens, all it sins to be this Keep it brief like a elevator pitch Or delegate a switch 'cause the spirit is a snitch In America, the rich love to wear it on they wrist They call it shots, they don't wear it on they lip Jingling of the chains, I can still hear it on the ship One hand loads the clip, fill the rubber on the cliff Me and my reflection sending one another on a trip I'm under 21 and fit, now you know what punishment, listen It ain't a easy odyssey for you to follow me We do come-easy-ology with no apology Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you find the worst thing they can't see Though they say they'll take your pain Don't give it away Yo, the deeper the breath, the louder the scream I cower between the two monsters out of my dream A Cadillac, a limousine, an anti-nigga machine And if I wake up alive, I bet they woke up clean Umpteen times, the warning signs went unseen To me, they done something, they tried to clip my wings But not before I understood how any caged bird sings The soul was something before we became earthlings Freedom is better than heroin, morphine or methadone They force-feed their fears into our flesh and bone Inside of my confessional, I decompress alone I'm more skeptical to following the metronome I guess technically I'm on another echelon It just gets to me to where they lay the pressure on It ain't a easy odyssey for you to follow me We do come-easy-ology with no apology Shine the light into the darkest part of me (Right, right, right) All around you find the worst thing they can't see (Start the wave, God) Though they say they'll take your pain (Talk your talk, nigga, let's go, nigga) (And that shit go) Boy grown, hands like Roy Jones King Tut bracelet on, encrusted, flooded in stones, bro Hardest and the sharpest Merge like three-bedroom apartments Pick one room, they all movin' Let me start this, my art retarded kids The arsonists and ostrich The moon is the park, we been partners, shit Say no other, we the jungle brothers Out in Kenya, how we did in December, loading in cartridges The lines is like Nas, D.A. we ain't babies Word to mama, poor llamas, paper we seein' crazy Louis Ritchie the drummer Thoughts from the black boy, boy mama call ya See the numbers, they matchin' and relaxin' Chump jewelry and 2027 Hummers, new song I seen the stunners getting busy on the bridge Headed out, clean, yo dope dealer Stop wasting time, take some shine Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you find the worst thing they can't see Though they say they'll take your pain Don't give it away