Opening
Headed to the crossroads
Time to make a choice
Three dimes in my pocket
Casting shells to hear his voice
All crossroads are my temple
All doors my altar stone
Paradox my native tongue
Pour me rum to call me home
Every choice we make, new possibilities
As libations pour
Find the door
… to set you free
You are the beginning
And always at the end
Going backwards to go forwards
This tricky path will bend
I am every doorway
Each entrance a guessing game
Once you cross a threshold
LIfe will never be the same
Every choice we make, new possibilities
As libations pour
Find the door
… to set you free
Everything
everything is darkness
everything is free
everything is river
everything’s memory
everything is ISIS
everything is breath
everything is Orisha
everything is death
Take a look about yourself
You’re a part of this song’s wealth
Close your eyes, the sounds you see
from me to you and you to we
hear your breath upon the wind
As the ageless cycle spins
know the love I sing is true
know this love from me is you
everything is Zami
everything is oak
everything’s vibration
everything is smoke
everything is reggae
everything’s possessed
everything is Obama
everything is blessed
Take a look about yourself
you’re a part of this song’s wealth
Close your eyes, the sounds you see
from me to you and you to we
hear your breath upon the wind
As the ageless cycle spins
know the love I sing is true
know this love from me is you
everything is everything
Truth and Lie
I hear you whisper
In the moonlight
In the twilight space of dreams
Your faces changing in the mirror
For nothing is as what it seems
Go into hiding in these dark times
And follow tracks across the sky
Run now deep into the forest
Where you can spread your wings and fly
Truth and the Lie
Walk the land together side by side
Truth and the Lie
From the two there’s no place you can hide
Truth and the Lie
Walk the land deceiving all mankind
Truth and the Lie
Behind one the other you will find
Truth and the Lie
When we speak how do you know what’s true
Truth and the Lie
Can you tell me which face speaks to you?
patakin:
When Olofi created the world
he made it complete.
He may the day and he made the night.
He made good things and bad.
Olofi made the Truth and also made the Lie.
He made the Truth beautiful and strong.
The Lie wasn't so pretty;
it was skinny and ugly, as if it were sick.
Olofi felt sorry for the Lie
and gave it a machete to defend itself with.
Time passed,
and everyone wanted to walk with the Truth.
No one wanted to walk the Lie.
One day, the Truth and the Lie
came across each other upon the road
and like enemies, they began to fight.
The Truth was stronger,
but the Lie had the machete that Olofi gave it
and when the Truth wasn't looking, the Lie
- soc! -
cut off the head of the Truth.
So the Truth had no eyes, no head.
And with its hands it looked
and looked for its head.
It eventually touched the head of the Lie
so … it wrenched off the Lie’s head
and put it where it's own head belonged.
Ever since, the Truth has walked the world deceiving all people.
The body of the Truth with the head of the Lie.
Walk Lightly 'Pon The Land
As I walk these roads alone this sleepless night
I feel you close, right next to me
You are my breath, my life,
my comfort in this world
The hurt I caused I could not see
We should not wait
the day the rivers all run dry
The coasts are lost into the sea
She cries for you to fight
instead of walking by
Our survival is ecology
Trod lightly ‘pon the land
The hurricane is coming
Trod lightly ‘pon the land
The wild fires glow
Trod lightly ‘pon the land
The oceans are uprising
Trod lightly ‘pon the land
or reap the seeds you sow
Force:
Every step I take
and breathe
It stings
it seems the seasons longer
See the conquerors
the ones who write the history
The mystery is this
how'd we miss the signs
Amidst the rising falling,
call it tides (tied)
rope provided by on high
Hanging dry your eyes it's dire times
The dialect selected
Natural progression
precipice
I'm pressed against it
Present tense the President
convinced the climate isn't climbing
I'm inclined to jest but just can't justify
or find a way to tie rants (tyrants) in.
Flint's flooded in lead pipe lines
government spending instead
Incentives are giving for companies drilling
Building a wall
when all is said and done
nowhere left to run and hide
seek the meek shall inherit what we reap so (sow....)
Hallowed Ground
This is the new Jim Crow
The ballot box filled with strange fruit
One of these mornings
you may find your brothers and sisters gone
Who’ll be there when they come for you?
The hills will sing our songs
But is anyone there to hear their sound?
so what you gon’ do?
(Your silence won’t protect you)
Plant your feet on hallowed ground
Hands Up
Here we are
Another mother’s boy
died in the streets today
By the hands of the man
who swore to serve and protect
Just in the park with a toy
It ain't no game we play
It's a two-way street
to live with love and respect
Put your hands up if you stand with us today
Against the hateful and corrupt
If you fight for the right of all to live free of strife
So march with us, put your hands up
Another senseless shooting
fills my mind today
And the rage from the page of the sage
lights my soul on fire
They won't convict the criminals
in this tragedy
And our dreams are left to smolder
on the funeral pyre
Put your hands up if you stand with us today
And see we drink from the same cup
If you fight for the right of all to live free of strife
Come walk with us, put your hands up
Catalyst:
Hands up!
I'm still tryna understand what the man want
Black man livin like he in a manhunt
Cant wait for the system to man up
From a place where they wont come
unless they roll up on you wit the big guns
Put ya team up inside the hand cuffs
Mama wishin that they would unhand us
Nappy hair dark skin they can't stand us
Stand up, fist up, lift up til my times up
Look like me get picked out the lineup
I swear the times suck
Stuck, inside a mindset of racism
So take it til we make it need to break the schism
Cant even give my son hope
for him to take wit him
Break system til my people ain't the worst victim
Its all a downward spiral
When we don't want reform
we just wanna go viral
Don't know who to hold liable
Feels like a solution ain't viable
In the end we all people
Wit a mind and a heart to speak to
Beat to police you look how they treat you
We just wanna be equal!