《Pen To Paper》歌词

[00:00:00] Pen To Paper (动笔) - Brother Ali/Amir Sulaiman

[00:00:00] I am not beautiful I am an elegant beast

[00:00:05] A well-mannered monster a charming barbarian

[00:00:09] I will pillage your heart with language so lavishly violent

[00:00:12] You will curse me for coming and curse me for going

[00:00:16] Your crying and your moaning will share the same sound

[00:00:47] Put pen to paper the first time when I was barely eight or

[00:00:50] Maybe nine that was the late eighties Reagan time

[00:00:54] Put in the freshest tape rewinds wait let me take my time

[00:00:57] The entire landscape of that blank page was mine

[00:01:01] Created space to climb inside escape the crazy times

[00:01:04] Reshape the climate break it down that was my frame of mind

[00:01:08] Thank the divine great designing this as my sacred shrine

[00:01:11] I made myself a place to shine wait let me spray this rhyme

[00:01:15] When I was thirteen I met KRS he put me on the stage

[00:01:18] Suggested I read up on Malcolm X y'all know the rest

[00:01:21] So much pushing down on my chest

[00:01:23] Both my folks got laid to rest

[00:01:24] Loved ones wishing me all the best

[00:01:26] I'm a ball of stress yet I digress

[00:01:28] I've spent my every hopeless dream and my unspoken secret

[00:01:31] You hear it floating through your speakers in my old releases

[00:01:35] My fanbase began to grow beneath crowd around me

[00:01:39] I never tiptoed 'round here shy I spit it loud and proudly

[00:01:42] The u s government profiled me and the sponsors dropped me

[00:01:45] Some of my listeners felt a way so they no longer got me

[00:01:49] I knew that telling that truth is costly no one alive can stop me

[00:01:52] I rolled that flag out on the ground and prostrated my body

[00:01:56] This is more than music to me this is ancestors

[00:01:59] Speaking through me at the tomb of Rumi

[00:02:01] My mic's a rifle I'm honor bound to fire my weapon truly

[00:02:04] Whether they jeer me cheer me boo salute me or just shoot me

[00:02:08] Let it be known my whole life I break that cycle set it in stone

[00:02:12] I'd still rather be known as a man that stand on my own

[00:02:14] Rather than beg at a throne cold

[00:02:16] You know I still honor my own code that go down to the bone

[00:02:19] We just want to get it on shooting at the devil

[00:02:21] With a megaphone till we dead and gone

[00:02:23] Boom