Baptize

I was born by the river Place I am delivered From all the sins that left my body quivered Walked in shivered Water was too cold A small price to pay for the Lord to save my soul He made the roads and paid the tolls I wanna stroll down those streets paved in gold Heaven is the prize In the event of demise A word to the wise Baptize Wash my sins away Soap is hope rinse and lather Fingerprints blood splatter Brain matter I rather gather facts to form conclusions Seclusion birthed in the midst of an intrusion What we see is an illusion Confusion leads to contusions As I drop more solutions Their rapport is collusion Police brutality bonds fund the officers shooting Black executions lead to looting They killed Fred Hampton They killed Huey Newton If only what we know now we knew then No representation at the UN Politician purses packed by the pursuing Suing through litigation Prolific proliferation of hateful reiterations from an evil population Insidious insinuations limit our liberation In this Indignant nation that robbed indigenous patrons Patience great things take time Can't divide the divine Lines crossed left many lost in their mind Sought to find that which was mine Refined my approach Against those who encroach, poach and coach all the cults A snake could never stand straight Dirty palms when they handshake They over tax and over push a vax that they mandate Expanded on the landscape Began to doubt the outlook Corporate crooks in cahoots with a government that now took More than a few lives truth lies in the optics Ate the forbidden fruit Opted to raise my octave Desperate for them to stop it No respite for their profit Inflation put our stimulus checks back in their pockets Plot twist Forced agendas out of the closet That mark won't be posh when they toss you in that mosh pit Posture of a prophet that persevered and prospered Remained proper without having the need to proffer Proctor my exam and be enamored by my genius From the genealogy of leaders never shown lenience Being greedy is not one of my ingredients Obedience is for the meek but I reek the mystique of an Iron Sheik Defiantly seek paradise with parasites Repairing what apparently caused them to be paralyzed Prepared my eyes for the mystery to come A litany of misery to some From slums I was born by the river Place I am delivered From all the sins that left my body quivered Walked in shivered Water was too cold A small price to pay for the Lord to save my soul He made the roads and paid the tolls I wanna stroll down those streets paved in gold Heaven is the prize In the event of demise A word to the wise Baptize