Lyricist : C.Graham/A.Yai

Composer : Nujabes

Light as a feather when I'm floating through

Reading through the daily news

Measuring the hurt within the golden rule

Centimeters of ether I'm heatin' the speaker

Motivational teacher with words that burn people

Seeing the headlines lined with discord

It's either genocide or the planet in uproar

Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice

The best laid plans of mice and men are never right

I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon

An average joe who knows what the **** is goin' on

Its the hope of my thoughts that I travel upon

Fly like an arrow of God until I'm gone so

Driftin' away like a feather in air

Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair

So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator

Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm

Driftin' away like a feather in air

Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair

So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator

Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater

Taking chances word tap dancing with wolves

In an ice arena out there deep in the woods of arizona

The sun be high life's ironic

Ain't tryin' to be talib when I write

Surreal life I paint it vivid

Habitat, crazy, insane

Watchin' propaganda six o' clock news that are sayin

Cultures clash, poor black folk and white trash

They revel in the cyberspace that might crash

Dash to millennium a million miles of runnin

At the speed of now they'll return gunnin

Rambo style gun-ho child gunning

Ammo blaow two times loud stunnin

Stunnin' when it hit ya, lift ya off the earth like

Ayo take you right back to birth

And niggas wonder why

They might wonder why this **** might happen but it does, it goes

Driftin' away like a feather in air

Lettin' my words take me away from the hurt and despair

So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator

Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater so I'm

Driftin' away like a feather in air

Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair

So I'm keepin' it vertical forever elevator

Riding the escalator to a somethin' that is greater

Treat you, better than me 'cause that's the heavenly key

To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be

It's the knowledge of self, understanding of the things around me

That becomes the wisdom that I need,

Livin' this life to the best of my ability

Channelin' energy to my thoughts attain symmetry

Remember me, because my proses remain gold

I got the gift of gab like them pimps in Kangols

It never ends, I keep it rollin' like a cipher,

The first cave man bringing fire, innovating it higher

To blast mistakes I raise the stakes

It's double or nothing in this vacuum of space

I will, survive, divine, the time to cry

**** a hold or hide I'm alive with pride

And I drove the chevy to the levee but the levee was dry

Singing "this will be the day that I die"