The Hilltop - Chick Corea & Return to Forever

As we proceed (as we proceed) To get you what you need (to give you what you need) As we proceed (as we proceed) To get you what you need (give you what you need) Che, ah-ight, like we always do about this time, ink lines for the sick rhymes inclined It's grimy shit but naughty that can't be fixed with a little bit of spitshine Big time like Frankie in Vages, inspiring like Ali and Frazier Spit it out 'til we spilling out onto the street start a party up with our neighbours I'd rather be part of your playlist, than ever be part of your A-list Harness the energy, heart of a pedigree with the scars of a sadist I go so hard on the pavement; I go so far with my statements That I don't know where they end and where I start it's all part of game it's The farthest I've came since I started to play it, I spar with these artists, the heartless and brainless We're harnessed by chains that are hard to escape And you change then they label us bastards and traitors They're charlatans, they're haters, they start on us but they're fake as Our parliament, but don't be disheartened by them pardon their failures If we don't forgive our enemies, we'll crawl the walls like centipedes Burn our energy like fossil fuels and fuel our own damn effigy And we'll all burn like Hennessey So keep on then and step with me John Lennon let it be, dead the beef like abattors, before these scavengers tear at me "I've been waitin' to come back", ("come back") "Like where the hell is the show?" ("The show") "Like a balloon on a thumbtack" "(thumbtack") "I'm gettin' to blow" ("to blow") "I've been waiting to come back" ("come back") "Like where the hell is the show?" ("The show") "Like a balloon on a thumbtack" ("thumbtack") "Getting ready to blow" ("to blow") And it might blow up but I won't go pop And it might blow up but it won't burst She might grow old but she won't grow up Well she might, but only if I go first She wears her heart on her sleeve like she's wearing a patch on her shoulder It's not a matter of whether I can catch her, more a matter of whether I can hold her She thinks out loud she's got me She laughs with her whole body I think about how she got it all figured out and wonder why she'd even want me? Each night I find it's the same ole, when I crawl inside in the evening I lie down next to an angel, fall asleep and fly with me demons They say don't live in the past and live each day like it was your last But I'd rather live each moment like it was my first, take it slow and sip from the glass Savour the moment, spit vicious bars, then pray for opponents sounds so serious, don't it? But I'm not concerned with a thing This is book three, Tolkien, Return of the King The Kings have arrived, we drink from the sky We fall from all 'cause we think we can fly But our wings have been tied, and the winging and lies Have me I'm wishing that I could bridge the divide You living the life? In the blink of an eye The shine of the bling and the rims that your ride Can all disappear so live for the rhyme Not material things your gifts can provide "I've been waitin' to come back", ("come back") "Like where the hell is the show?" ("The show") "Like a balloon on a thumbtack" "(thumbtack") "I'm gettin' to blow" ("to blow") "I've been waiting to come back" ("come back") "Like where the hell is the show?" ("The show") "Like a balloon on a thumbtack" ("thumbtack") "In getting ready to blow" ("to blow") Since 'State of the Art' we've stayed in the yard just waiting to start this shit all over Layin' in bars for a day and a half, had to switch from gin to soda And by like mid October, record was six month over due And I'm like, "dude what you expect? I'm only three month sober" Coming up turning tree trunks over, running up burning divas, posers Run amok 'til the sun is up or 'til one of us live la vidaloca I'm going ta roll until I fold, like I got a hold of Propafol So beautiful to know you all but for now... I don't wanna go, go, but I gotta go, go, go We won't go, no, we won't go I don't wanna go, go, but I gotta go, go, go No, we won't go, no, we won't go, no I don't wanna go, go, but I gotta go, go, go We won't go, no, we won't go I don't wanna go, go, but I gotta go, go, go No, we won't go, no, we won't go, no

I feel like I've been here before Real life or dreaming, unsure When all my travels could all unravel In a heartbeat or a thought And if my legacy's abolished Then whatever we accomplished Did it for the pedigree, I don't see an enemy Then to me y'all are potentially accomplice Cause some men rise above Some men fight enough Until there struggling becomes them and are defined as such Who the fuck then divided us It's like I'm born every morning, die every evening War at my door reviving my demon I'd rather die with my convictions than live a life with no meaning So I hold court like the king of the mountain hall Every one everything is accountable Face the music and embrace the truth of all that makes us human Then I think I'd be proud of y'all If I am, all I said I am And we are, all in together and From where I stand I'm just trying to get a plan To build a better man for this Neverland Maybe a dreamer, make believer, try escape the ether But the great deceiver lives inside to feed a basic need for Identity of own Set me in stone near my legacy to grow then I'll never be alone It's the music that will ferry me to home I'm not lost, I've been following my own path Not blind, been looking at my future not past Ain't done, staring into the abyss daily Until that man in the mirror ain't me I'm not lost, I've been following my own path Not blind, been looking at my future not past Ain't done, staring into the abyss daily Until that man in the mirror ain't me Feel like I've been here before, in the abyss Looking up to the great expanse Stars in the sky, stars in my eyes Won't stop till their stars in my hands Feel like I landed on Mars I feel abandoned in fact They're all on Dancing with Stars Making fun of artists who actually rap I lost my confidence Till I got on my flex Now can't tell me nothing, city all suffering Tell God he got a Suffa complex I'm draped in the belt of Orion I'm praying the truth rings out They're saying the loud things quiet We're saying the quiet things loud I wanna rock right now Want every single rapper on the block wiped out Everybody coming at the Hilltop, lights out You're running down seconds on the clock, time out What? Pipe down, we don't care what you think of us We're the shit and you can't sit with us You trying to fly by clinging to Icarus I'm trying to drive by liquor and cigarettes I'm trying to be a better man Ask Eddie Vedder man, I'm trying to be Clark I feel like Letterman, hiding my venom in A coffee mug with a broken heart Open bars probably going to kill me If all this touring don't From the heart sincerely All I want really, is to watch my children grow I'm not lost, I've been following my own path Not blind, been looking at my future not past Ain't done, staring into the abyss daily Until that man in the mirror ain't me I'm not lost, I've been following my own path Not blind, been looking at my future not past Ain't done, staring into the abyss daily Until that man in the mirror ain't me

I thought we had, Such a good thing going, Now the light you burned, Is dying out so slowly 1: PRESSURE For starters, aint heartless I don't hate them, But I was starving and parted our relations, I never live in the past like the forsaken, I was ill, you were never the master of your patience, We were martyrs for this mayhem, Now you're passing your ass out to artists as replacements, I know it's harder to father than to make friends, But you see I'm proud regardless where my day ends, It was a task to ask you just to pay rent, And you laughed cause my heart was in the basement, Never targeted the market just to make ends, Wasn't all scars there were parts of it that made sense, Walking away were the hardest conversations, Hope you learned if you're smart you shouldn't date friends, And I still don't understand you, So I gotta say fuck you, thank you I thought we had, Man I thought that we had, Such a good thing going, But we don't, but we don't, but we don't, Now the light you burned, Now the light that you burned, Is dying out so slowly, And we go, and we go, and we go 2: TRIALS Must be hard trying to keep the facade, Here we are, you nothing, me needing a laugh, Went from driving to not even a seat in the car, Still lying now to kissing every cheek of my ass, From family tree, to just another leaf in the park, Hope those bright ideas help you see in the dark, It's like first, you say something, second, you blame others, Third burn the bridge like the first Rage cover, But they don't know and they never will what we've been through, It's not you, it's me, nah it's you, I got a lot of love for things you did, If it only added up to all the things you missed, Guess that's it, heard that you were running with him, Saw you settled down now and had a couple of kids, Shit the world keeps spinning like a bottle top, See the light you burned started something that I aint gonna stop I thought we had, Man I thought that we had, Such a good thing going, But we don't, but we don't, but we don't, Now the light you burned, Now the light that you burned, Is dying out so slowly, And we go, and we go, and we go 3: SUFFA What a soulful old anthem, You used to burn brighter now you couldn't hold a lighter to a lantern, Went from fighter to a phantom, Invited inside of my life but you a bantam, Weight, with some heavyweight issues, Had to separate with you, get you heavy grade tissues, For all your mood swings, so not amusing, You could blow the rock out a mood ring, You can blow the rocks and the tubing, You can go super hoe the block for a shoestring, Budget for all I care and this is what I got, For all my caring? So fuck it, Nah I aint sleeping on the couch, you can sleep on the carpet, I'm a take the bed and sleep like a starfish, Hog all the blankets, and sleep off the lagers, And wake up in the morning like we feeling marvelous I thought we had, Man I thought that we had, Such a good thing going, But we don't, but we don't, but we don't, Now the light you burned, Now the light that you burned, Is dying out so slowly, And we go, and we go, and we go, I thought we had, Man I thought that we had, Such a good thing going, But we don't, but we don't, but we don't, Now the light you burned, Now the light that you burned, Is dying out so slowly, And we go, and we go, and we go

I'm satisfied with just a cottage below A little silver and a little gold But in that city where the ransomed will shine I want a gold one that's silver lined I've got a mansion just over the hilltop In that bright land where we'll never grow old And some day yonder we will never more wander But walk on streets that are purest gold Don't think me poor or deserted or lonely I'm not discouraged I'm heaven bound I'm but a pilgrim in search of the city I want a mansion, a harp and a crown I've got a mansion just over the hilltop In that bright land where we'll never grow old And some day yonder we will never more wander But walk on streets that are purest gold