Pull myself together, put on a new face Climb down up the hilltop, baby - ooh, I get back in the race Cause I've got dreams, yeah, dreams to remember Yeah, yeah, I've got dreams, oh dreams to remember Help me out Yo, my destiny rules everything around me, dream, get the money Dollar, dollar bill y'all Everybody put their palms in the clouds, get your hands in the sky So it's not a problem to feel, y'all Even if I was broke as fuck I would lend you my last so you can holla at me still PMC in the place to be on the M.I.C still spitting that real Yo, you know the limericks are limitless, not limited in sentiment But incriments of infinite potental in the scenes You could benefit from getting off of the internet For just a minute, it's a simple song You could sing or Memorex, I meant mimic it When it hits the spirit it pulls the heartstrings Infamous and kindred, it's intrinsic when it's still in us From the genesis when we remember to dream, just... dream (That means you) I've got dreams to remember I've got dreams, yeah dreams to remember Help me out Yo, my determination runs every aspect mentally, I'm no dummy This scholar got skill, y'all Can't take what I visualise from it, you pull the wool over my eyes I swallowed the red pill Even if I was broke as fuck I would lend you my last so you could holla at me still Everybody put your palms to the clouds, get 'em up in the sky So it's not a problem to feel Welcome to the Age of Aquarius in the stages of various schemes Precariously I escape when I dream Each scene should win an Academy, put it up on the screen My strategy: Pharoahe's the king of Queens Who fiends for teens to view it as the new theme music Use it to shape their futures when they daydream to it Never elusive, never claim stupid Lucid, boost your recruits when you sing to it and just... dream (That means you) I've got dreams You know I'm down right excellent, about my scrilla, get the money Dollar, dollar bill, y'all I got you strung out on the music so I'm sort of like a dealer to a junkie Swallow that pill, y'all Sometimes it rains in Southern Cali and Philadelphia ain't always sunny Just keeping it real, y'all Talib Kweli in the place to be, yeah, you better believe Come on, you know the deal, y'all Five o'clock in the morning, just getting home from last night's performance When I'm dead tired from touring I hit the coffin I'm like a vampire required to stay dormant Out of the range, the sunlight with a doubt it'd remain I used to smoke so much weed that it clouded my brain I took a break, had to find life's meaning again Without the smoke in my lungs I started dreaming again I dreamed of candy-coated cars and panties that go with bra's Hurricanes named Sandy, I'm floating on Noah's ark, what? Police'll bleed blue cause he staying true to the uniform Dennis Rodman in North Korea looking for unicorns (that's ridiculous) The truth is I'm one of the best And when you snooze that's when you meet the cousin of death So when I say I never visited the cousin, I don't sleep I stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deep (dream) I've got dreams to remember I've got dreams, yeah dreams to remember Help me out

Hey, hey, hey man I strike the empire back I strike the empire back Fuck the empire High flyin' like the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo I never roll for dolo, frontin' on me's a no-no Understand? Doin' this for my family Ha ha, check it out y'all Yo, I'm tryin' to make a dollar out of what makes sense Add it up, told my daddy I'd be a rich man You never know when your fate gon' switch hand Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand I was a young boy, who dreamt about being a big man On small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan Gotta handle business properly, boost up my economy Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property Yesterday was not for me but nowadays it's time for me The streets is watchin' me, I watch back, that's the policy Movin' along my oddesey like blood through the artery Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless Let those who make the exodus seekin' the North beacon From beatin' and hog-eatin', from punishment all season From hands cracked and bleedin' cotton thorns in your palms It's for y'all that I sketch these songs, and it goes Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow I fear no man, because faith is the arrow My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano Kweli is you wit me? Let's make it happen (Whattup whattup?) I burn through your argument with action My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin' for a brighter day When y'all wanna leave y'all? Right away Shout it out from East-West, from South to Northern From Cakalak' to California From the coldest to the warmest To the borders 'cross the waters, understand And know that I love you We got love in the place Shout out to all the Queens all the seeds To all the teams that's gettin' cream From outlaw to emcee's Make it happen do your thing, understand And know that I love you Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen Guess who? The illest MC in the atmosphere, yeah the Soul Controller Who roam the frontier like a Buffalo Soldier I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna Never disrespect no women 'cause I love my momma These cats be givin' us praise but it ain't that accurate I give it up to God, all that, love and attachment, get Scary well-prepared with the shears when it get hairy Like how these niggaz is lookin' like some fairies And singin' like canaries to the beast And anybody who will listen to 'em clearly Y'all don't hear me though, even when I'm comin' through in stereo You make a mockery of what I represent properly Yo, why you startin' me? I take that shit straight to the artery Intellectual property I got the title and the deed I pay for rent, with the tears and sweat, and what I bleed MC's imitate the way we walk, the way we talk You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought Plus your flow a little bit off, you come across soft Back in the days, niggaz like that on stage got tossed off Need to get crossed off the guest list It's like you gotta be disrespected And thrown out the exit to get the message Sometimes your sunshine get snatched like a necklace When you get too drunk on power and your drive get reckless Check it, MC's in my face after I slug you then I hug you If I gotta dead you know it's only 'cause I love you Shout it out from East-West from South to Northern From the richest to the poorest To the elders in the coffins Livin' native dyin' for it, understand And know that I love you Yeah, yeah, we got love in the place Shout out from up top to the middle To black bottom, sky high Whether you colder than December or hotter, than July It don't stop 'til we complete this And know that I love you keep this fly It's so much to life when you just Stay black, stay black Stay black, stay black Stay black, stay black Stay black, stay black Stay black, stay black My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, my people, my people people p-people My people, oh oh oh oh ohh, oh ohh

Yeah, I was floatin' for sure I've never known a thing so pure I'd like to think I don't sink no more And with the shade of flamingo (flamingo) For a while, she won't get my lingo (get my lingo) Of all the faces you could perfect I never knew you was an architect Of all the places, who woulda guessed? I woulda found, I got it, now we are the blessed, sayin' I don't stop thinkin' about you Every day I just can't wait to show you Everything Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in love with you Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in lovе with you Hey love, how ya doin', how your day goin'? We makе a symphony, your love is like Beethoven I'll follow you across the seas and every great ocean The outsider tellin' Ponyboy to stay golden They stay holdin' on the grudges while we grow together Haven't felt like this since junior high, it's like we go together It's better than I know myself sometimes I know you're spiritually inclined 'cause I felt divine Across the room when I felt your eyes I just started to melt, no wonder I fell right under your spell See, the club the meat market for the single people But in love, the beggar and the king are equals, uh I don't stop thinkin' about you Every day I just can't wait to show you Everything Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in love with you Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in love with you I don't stop thinkin' about you Every day I just can't wait to show you Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in love with you Maybe it's true Maybe I'm in love with you Maybe I'm in love with you

We be blazin' So amazin' Everybody get down Everybody get down We be blazin' So amazin' Everybody get down Everybody get down New year, new record, time to do bigger shit Caught a plane to Cali linked with my nigga Quik I figure with the combination we bomb the nation But stay calm and patient As the world get hyped from hearin' our musical conversation This a beautiful situation right here Given birth on the track 'cuz the cypher stay pregnant with ideas And we rockin' it, rock, rock, rockin' it Tell the hater players put a sock in it Proper shit, that you got to get, 'cuz we properly document How cats look more like dicks than the Washington monument Phallicaly tryin' to challenge me, but who you racin' wit' It's amazin' the lyrical lingerie I be lacin' shit, we be blazin' it Put it in the air with the chronic My lyrics like drugs got you hooked on my phonics From Brooklyn to Compton the lounge of Soundbombing Still rockin' over "Balance and Options," now If you got a spliff then put it in the air If you want a rift then put it in the air If you shakin' yo' ass, put it in the air If you makin' it last, put it in the air If you leave the crib strapped then put it in the air Take ya hand of your gat and put it in the air Snook your bud in the club, put it in the air Got nuttin' but love, put it in the air They say my rhymes is too heavy, I come thicker than the fog You get it when I retire and battle my catalogue Writin' rhymes in my Captain's log, BlackStar date MC's fake like Egyptian Gods in Stargate Lovin' the hate, bubble all types of weight in they rap I draw blood like mosquitoes y'all annoy like gnats Pop that around the wrong cat get laid flat Concrete adjust to the contours in your back Quik where you at? Yo I'm in the back room makin' a run Ain't even touched her 'n makin' her cum Now you can catch me out in' Portland wit Stoudamire Everybody doin' shows but I'm the hottest flier Bitches say honest, I swear to God So how come then believin' them is so damn hard Could you really blame a nigga if I fucked a skate You didn't even pay that's why you flunked the date All you did was eat salad, talk shit about niggas and drink wine And your answer kept changin' 'cuz bitch you keep lyin' Talkin' 'bout 'he make me sick All he do is disrespect me keep callin' me bitch And he only wanna fuck me when he all full of dope What the fuck you think I'm here for not to love you I hope All I'm 'bout to do is listen for a minute While I get my drink in n'duce you to my dog Kweli 'n go up in it If you got a spliff then put it in the air If you want a rift then put it in the air If you shakin' yo' ass, put it in the air If you makin' it last, put it in the air If you leave the crib strapped then put it in the air Take ya hand of your gat and put it in the air Snook your bud in the club, put it in the air Got nuttin' but love, put it in the air C'mon We be blazin' So amazin' Everybody get down Everybody get down We be blazin' So amazin' Everybody get down Everybody get down Now let me tell you how I am I'm mild-mannered at day but superhero at night I got the special invite to make your spot look right No ice, no rain, not bottles of champagne 'n Half these motherfuckers can't pronounce my name I'm so cool while you hyper in' the coffee shop Hype niggas make girls be like 'get off me stop' Real niggas like thirst so of course we rock 'Cuz the game unauthordox, off top You got cold feet like I pulled off your socks Always goin' down town pullin' all the stops Your breath smellin' like fish from straight off the docks Dats how you lost your spot, you too hype If you got a spliff then put it in the air If you want a rift then put it in the air If you shakin' yo' ass, put it in the air If you makin' it last, put it in the air If you leave the crib strapped then put it in the air Take ya hand of your gat and put it in the air Snook your bud in the club, put it in the air Got nuttin' but love, put it in the air Yea, we be blazin' So amazin' Everybody get down Everybody get down