Song | Always Shine (feat. Lupe Fiasco and Bilal) |
Artist | Robert Glasper |
Artist | Lupe Fiasco |
Artist | Bilal |
Album | Black Radio |
[00:38] | Hook: Bilal |
[00:52] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[00:55] | You’re the star that will always shine |
[00:58] | Forever you’ll be with me |
[01:03] | Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco |
[01:04] | Uh, it go like |
[01:06] | You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul? |
[01:08] | Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes? |
[01:11] | This is balance |
[01:12] | Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge |
[01:14] | Between the solitary and the conference that I examines |
[01:18] | That I imagine was a figure |
[01:20] | Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas |
[01:24] | Like the transubstantiation of liquor |
[01:25] | But that’s just turnin’them into blood |
[01:27] | And we’ll be right back where we was |
[01:29] | Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors |
[01:32] | So I can cut |
[01:33] | Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners |
[01:37] | For advancement of human suffering |
[01:39] | And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials |
[01:42] | That’s gon’ bring it back to us again |
[01:44] | A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s |
[01:47] | Hook: Bilal |
[01:48] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[01:50] | You’re the star that will always shine |
[01:52] | Forever you’ll be with me |
[01:57] | Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco |
[01:57] | Shotgun |
[01:58] | Even though independent cars ain’t got one |
[02:01] | I got some and more to spare |
[02:03] | No more despair |
[02:05] | My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate |
[02:08] | Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there |
[02:11] | My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here |
[02:14] | I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit |
[02:16] | Affion on the Drake skit |
[02:18] | Now how many more can I make with just one voice |
[02:21] | They might call it fake shit |
[02:23] | This some deep shit |
[02:24] | It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit |
[02:27] | Vicariously in every rap I speak with |
[02:30] | I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless |
[02:32] | Cause I’mma be you |
[02:34] | Even though you’re not here to be with |
[02:36] | I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers |
[02:38] | Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream |
[02:40] | In a world so Martin Luther King-less |
[02:43] | Hook: Bilal |
[02:43] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[02:45] | You’re the star that will always shine |
[02:47] | Forever you’ll be with me |
[02:53] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[02:56] | You’re the star that will always shine |
[02:58] | Forever you’ll be with me |
[03:06] | Outro: Lupe Fiasco |
[03:08] | And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott |
[03:15] | In a discourse with Baldwin |
[03:17] | On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’ |
[03:20] | But wishin’ it never lands |
[03:22] | Reminiscent of the dream time |
[03:24] | Presently en route to the rise of the machine time |
[03:28] | Magazine times |
[03:29] | With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee |
[03:32] | Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks |
[03:35] | Roads as bumpy as braille books |
[03:37] | Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door |
[03:42] | Gourmet food at the starving soiree |
[03:44] | A choice of one easy woman at a time |
[03:47] | I’ll take three the hard way |
[03:50] | Trying to be as abstract as possible |
[03:52] | And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable |
[03:55] | A baby fed molten gold |
[03:57] | And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls |
[04:00] | How to describe this |
[04:03] | Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence |
[04:08] | Some more technically impressive |
[04:09] | In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic |
[04:14] | Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby |
[04:18] | Might as well not even exist, not even a bit |
[04:21] | In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor |
[04:25] | And to the oppressors, I leave a war |
[04:28] | And so on and so forth |
[00:38] | Hook: Bilal |
[00:52] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[00:55] | You' re the star that will always shine |
[00:58] | Forever you' ll be with me |
[01:03] | Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco |
[01:04] | Uh, it go like |
[01:06] | You ever see the inner depths of a man' s soul? |
[01:08] | Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes? |
[01:11] | This is balance |
[01:12] | Between a comic and a conscious, that' s the challenge |
[01:14] | Between the solitary and the conference that I examines |
[01:18] | That I imagine was a figure |
[01:20] | Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas |
[01:24] | Like the transubstantiation of liquor |
[01:25] | But that' s just turnin' them into blood |
[01:27] | And we' ll be right back where we was |
[01:29] | Not a peacesign, but a fascination with scissors |
[01:32] | So I can cut |
[01:33] | Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners |
[01:37] | For advancement of human suffering |
[01:39] | And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials |
[01:42] | That' s gon' bring it back to us again |
[01:44] | A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ing and huh' s |
[01:47] | Hook: Bilal |
[01:48] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[01:50] | You' re the star that will always shine |
[01:52] | Forever you' ll be with me |
[01:57] | Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco |
[01:57] | Shotgun |
[01:58] | Even though independent cars ain' t got one |
[02:01] | I got some and more to spare |
[02:03] | No more despair |
[02:05] | My motorware don' t match my motivate to mate |
[02:08] | Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there |
[02:11] | My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here |
[02:14] | I' m Aries Spears on my JayZ shit |
[02:16] | Affion on the Drake skit |
[02:18] | Now how many more can I make with just one voice |
[02:21] | They might call it fake shit |
[02:23] | This some deep shit |
[02:24] | It' s my me impersonatin' we shit |
[02:27] | Vicariously in every rap I speak with |
[02:30] | I hope you' re speakin' for me, if I' m ever speechless |
[02:32] | Cause I' mma be you |
[02:34] | Even though you' re not here to be with |
[02:36] | I hope I see these gangsters actin' like teachers |
[02:38] | Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream |
[02:40] | In a world so Martin Luther Kingless |
[02:43] | Hook: Bilal |
[02:43] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[02:45] | You' re the star that will always shine |
[02:47] | Forever you' ll be with me |
[02:53] | Your inner heart, your inner mind |
[02:56] | You' re the star that will always shine |
[02:58] | Forever you' ll be with me |
[03:06] | Outro: Lupe Fiasco |
[03:08] | And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott |
[03:15] | In a discourse with Baldwin |
[03:17] | On a jet plane with no fear for fallin' |
[03:20] | But wishin' it never lands |
[03:22] | Reminiscent of the dream time |
[03:24] | Presently en route to the rise of the machine time |
[03:28] | Magazine times |
[03:29] | With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee |
[03:32] | Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks |
[03:35] | Roads as bumpy as braille books |
[03:37] | Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door |
[03:42] | Gourmet food at the starving soiree |
[03:44] | A choice of one easy woman at a time |
[03:47] | I' ll take three the hard way |
[03:50] | Trying to be as abstract as possible |
[03:52] | And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable |
[03:55] | A baby fed molten gold |
[03:57] | And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls |
[04:00] | How to describe this |
[04:03] | Insightful remarks such as the best thing I' ve ever heard is silence |
[04:08] | Some more technically impressive |
[04:09] | In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic |
[04:14] | Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby |
[04:18] | Might as well not even exist, not even a bit |
[04:21] | In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor |
[04:25] | And to the oppressors, I leave a war |
[04:28] | And so on and so forth |