Aquamarine (feat. Michael Kiwanuka)

作词 : Brian Joseph Burton/Tarik Trotter/Barry Stoller/Dean Josiah Cover/Michael Kiwanuka/Jean-Pierre Alarcen/Berrie Wilson

作曲 : Brian Joseph Burton/Tarik Trotter

[Chorus: Michael Kiwanuka]

Everything's burning down

When I close my eyes [?]

Enemies all around

I don't understand, my friend, my friend

[Verse 1: Black Thought]

We go from Lira to Libra

From cold water to fever

To World War 3 from the treaty signed in Geneva

The biology teacher said we used to be amoebas

The neighbourhood preacher said we emerged from the ether

We converge from urethra and struck gold, eureka

The morning star Tariq, I was born to be a teacher

Whether scorpion or the frog, the nature of the creature

Is to evolve, though it's the savage beast we truly are

My words should be studied up in Berkeley and Juilliard

All my bars is hard as solid gold bouillon

My name in the Qur'an, like the kingdom of Shurima

You done lost your mind trying to call me a [?]

'Cause in 215 where folks fight depression

And wives pack protection, lives lack direction

I'm a king, I'm dipped in God's black complexion

Survival of the fittest is the natural selection

Now, bend down on the scene like I'm Saladin

The stone courage esteem is aquamarine

You mask how you really feel like it's Halloween

Where they ask how you really feel about my machine

In a class that I'm only in

Alien, horsepower like a Mongolian

Trying to find soul again

But my thoughts corrupt the files that contaminate the console again

It's a shame, but I cannot complain though I am not the same

My bandwidth is a canvas cut from His frame

When I present ideas, naked and unashamed

His hand written in Sanskrit on [?]

[Chorus: Michael Kiwanuka]

Everything's burning down

When I close my eyes [?]

Enemies all around

I don't understand, my friend, my friend

[Verse 2: Black Thought]

I've been through hoodies and sneakers to beepers and record features

Hustlin' nicks of reefer to tusslin' with the reaper

Sensory deprivation to ultimate synesthesia

Freein' our brothers' keeper from teeth of another creature

Breakin' and entering to the theater, the search and seizure

Is the worth of genius, somewhere between Earth and Venus

At her convenience even non-believers make prayers

Haters and naysayers is buried in cake layers

I take day as a blessing and see the night as a lesson

Twilight is a message for me to write a confession

The matrix, a dominatrix seeking to be served

Ever patiently waiting with the demons we deserve

Better be willing to pay with every dream that you deferred

If the vehicle should swerve, learn to lean into the curve

After workin' up the nerve almost equal in size

I walked around with the iron for any wrinkle in time

I pay the peace of my mind for every nickel and dime

But never less than a five and never slept on the job

A killer jumped on your squad, yet never left the garage

When your God was close enough to see the flesh of his eyes

Get to the button and press, it's what the message advised

What's the threat? Behind a mess is where the testament lies

[Chorus: Michael Kiwanuka]

Everything's burning down

When I close my eyes [?]

Enemies all around

I don't understand, my friend, my friend