(0:30)
It ain’t that simple,
cuz to change is to rip away
what’s engrained.
It can cripple you in different ways.
But the truth ain’t fickle, it remains the same...//
Your choices ripple through the pixels on your frame,
but the picture that you paint,
ain’t equipped to come alive and face the pain..
So you plot a path / or ya sought escape,
but at last
you will find, your just runnin’ in circles in one place…//
You ain’t comin’ with purpose, your soul’s chained
to the surface where illusion is sown, nurtured and raised…
You alone choose to smother or foster the flame
that’ll burn away
the veils that shroud and cover the Aim.
In the past, /we have failed and our brothers and sisters have suffered in vain.
There’s been enough devastation, let’s sever these chains./
Whatever it takes,
let’s build
‘til heaven is evident, clear as the day.
Hold them dear in remembrance,
those who weathered the tempest to rip some fetters away.
(1:33)
But it ain’t that simple,
cuz we’ve more than kinda sorta settled with the idle evil of societal aims.
It’s like we’re fortified inside a barricade,
keepin’ us divided from our purpose and a broader vision for what God ordains.
Ain’t no solace if we’re only seekin’ to return from whence we came,
where the ties that bound were fitted tight to choke so many lives away.
It’s time to plot a brighter day.
We gotta a lot a’ modest efforts, but we needin’ strength
if we wanna step up to build without the bias and the hate.
I ain’t tryin’ to block the pointin’ fingers, but I’m tryin’ to move beyond just blame.
I’m tryin’ to find the way to build up a new frame
on a foundation that won’t rot away.
It’s about the whole system that has gotta change.
Even when I’m feelin’ weak, I gotta honor truth and guard the flame.
Cuz there’s been a lot a’ time to learn, but the path is not ablaze.
And its time to finally change.
(2:36)
Cuz it ain’t that simple,
and we gotta lotta obstacles
that stop our optics from seein’ what is possible.
We gotta foster what’ll blossom; this we’ve sought to know,
but we’ve adopted nothin’ different, just more rocky roads…
If we livin’ to uplift a system rooted in the truth,
then why we fallin’ flat into indifference? Where’s our movements fruits?
What we doin’ if we ain’t uprootin’ what we used to view as fixed.
If we refuse to move, there ain’t no time or place where it’ll fit.