《Shadows On The Sun》歌词

[00:00:00] Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali

[00:00:01] We'd like to capture your minds right now

[00:00:04] What you say

[00:00:06] Take you a little bit higher

[00:00:10] What you say

[00:00:12] What you say

[00:00:15] What you say

[00:00:20] I like the snares loud enough

[00:00:21] To make your eyes blink from it

[00:00:22] Only male with the holy grail drink from it

[00:00:25] I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street

[00:00:28] And spread a thick layer of blood

[00:00:30] Sweat and tears on the beats

[00:00:31] My brain rest upon the hiphop lexicon

[00:00:34] That I acquired in the decade of work

[00:00:36] That people slept upon

[00:00:37] I don't rap I recite the prayers of the inner soul

[00:00:40] Of the slaveships' human cargo

[00:00:42] Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market

[00:00:45] With shit that make me pace in my room

[00:00:47] Until I rip the carpet

[00:00:48] I'm fit to start up this next millennium

[00:00:50] Swingin' the grappling hook

[00:00:52] At cackling crooks to finish em

[00:00:53] The city dweller singin' telegrams from neverland

[00:00:56] The better man kind now kindly join the caravan

[00:00:59] We're like a rock band that pack contraband

[00:01:02] And won't hesitate to stomp

[00:01:03] A man into the rocks and sand

[00:01:05] Brother Ali and if you haven't heard about me

[00:01:07] I'm flyin' just beneath your

[00:01:09] Radar so y'all can doubt me

[00:01:10] Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds

[00:01:13] There's a ladder you're supposed to climb

[00:01:15] Approach a rhymesayer with a buggsy siegel sized ego

[00:01:18] You gon' get yourself snatched out

[00:01:20] The sky you know the steelo

[00:01:21] By now where what why and how

[00:01:24] We start the revolution real time right now

[00:01:26] Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:01:30] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:01:33] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:01:35] My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:01:38] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:01:41] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:01:44] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:01:47] My inner soul shall my inner light shall

[00:01:49] I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights

[00:01:50] Prayin' they don't starve tonight

[00:01:52] And stay positive in the face of a harder life

[00:01:54] My chorus light the torch

[00:01:56] For those on whom the sun set

[00:01:57] Verses meant to speak for the voiceless

[00:02:00] So let us never be dismayed or afraid

[00:02:02] The ground we're walking on is stained

[00:02:04] With the blood of those before us who came

[00:02:06] Soldiers in this freedom

[00:02:06] Movement are too numerous to name

[00:02:08] Cause the human soul yearns

[00:02:10] To be free it's all the same

[00:02:11] I rhyme for runaways prayin'

[00:02:13] That they see another day

[00:02:14] You gotta make it through

[00:02:15] The winter to feel some summer days

[00:02:17] It's for my natives

[00:02:18] It's history in the way their hair is braided

[00:02:20] Elephants never forget that's how they say it

[00:02:22] Tell my man hasim in prison

[00:02:24] Keep grinnin' because he's innocent

[00:02:25] And tell him that the tests we get are heavensent

[00:02:28] Listen I rap for the ones that

[00:02:29] Johnny cash wore the black for

[00:02:31] Black and white women

[00:02:32] That were turned to crack whores

[00:02:34] And I empty everything in the bank to give for it

[00:02:37] I empty all the days of my life to live for it

[00:02:39] And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it

[00:02:42] So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it

[00:02:44] Yes leave it to me to create

[00:02:46] Hope where there was none

[00:02:48] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:02:51] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:02:54] My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:02:56] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:02:59] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:03:02] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:03:05] My inner my inner my inner my inner

[00:03:07] Yes I glance in the sky and see

[00:03:09] The same cloud configuration

[00:03:11] That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him

[00:03:13] Resisted in the face of adversity

[00:03:14] With a fist and it was raised

[00:03:16] One finger extended meaning allah be praised

[00:03:19] Spent days in heaven's embassy

[00:03:21] On Koran pages allah explains this legacy

[00:03:24] Angels doubted adam Jacob's brothers clapped him

[00:03:27] And ancient pharaohs were too brutal to fathom

[00:03:29] If all the earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pens

[00:03:32] You could never write the knowledge of god it never ends

[00:03:35] And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend

[00:03:38] But it's the way of god makin' the oppressed prevalent men

[00:03:41] We standin' with humanity at destiny's door

[00:03:43] Chanting the war cry it goes never no more

[00:03:46] So if y'all tryna talk about the horrors you see

[00:03:49] Feel free to tell your stories through me

[00:03:52] Yes leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:03:55] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:03:58] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:04:01] My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:04:03] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:04:06] The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

[00:04:09] Leave it to me to create hope where there was none

[00:04:12] My inner soul shall my inner life shall

[00:04:14] There's only one God and he's not just above

[00:04:17] There's only one man and there's only one love

[00:04:20] Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed

[00:04:23] For that y'all we willing to bleed

[00:04:25] There's only one God and he's not just above

[00:04:28] There's only one woman and there's only one love

[00:04:31] We doin' this till all of Adam's children are freed

[00:04:34] And for that y'all we willin' to bleed