Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand my friend my friend
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 neighborhood 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 Quran
Like the kingdom of Suleiman
You done lost your mind
Trying to call me a mulignan
'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 vials
And 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 the seventh train
Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand my friend
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 chief of another creature
Breakin' and entering to the
Theater the search and seizure
Is the birth 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 crept in 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
Is what the message advised
What's the threat
Behind the vest
Is where the testament lies
Everything's burning down
When I close my eyes again
Enemies all around
I don't understand my friend my friend
