one song
i'll ask god like,
please, me, be free,
help me heed the call right
i will speak sweet rhymes
that define life
one shot
promise i'll make good with the limelight.
i want an audience that's open to a message
spit it, one song glory, which is something wholly different
from everything i've written and although it's reminiscent of
the gibberish they're given, suddenly they're listening

cause it is rich and speaks to you and speaks to me,
it's a miracle you witness every time you wake from sleep
get it? one song glory, straight from jah into my teeth
from allah up in you
up from you into the trees, so breathe!
it's the music of the storm over the water,
you got it, you're forming thoughts on stuff i never woulda spotted,
and honest, you're stronger than i thought you ever coulda gotten,
your father is watching over you, he said you were a prophet
so stop with all this bickering and fighting with each other,
leviathan is big, let's unite because we're brothers
and otherwise we won't have a chance for another try
i want a song that can make you don another tie
one that binds you to the glory of the essence of the world and the everything
that's resting on the precipice of death cause we don't know our history
we're just a mirror, reflecting what we see
and peace will be impossible as long as we concede to the will of ourselves
over everything we need

i want one song
that says it all right
like Nasir coulda did with his "One Mic"
but it would focus on the glory that the planet is
and all the gory details of how we have mismanaged it
it would bandage our brains while we banish the bane
of our existence that we've spent in our graves
shatter the chains, make us scatter and change
back into something that would magically be okay
and it would end babylon just by being made
and it would render us a garden in which we could lay
and you could memorize it all and sing it every day
and ineffably it would say what i can't say
like the virus really lies in our civilized state
the structure is insane and can never be sustained
what really works is Earth,
but we're spurning her embrace.
Have faith in her,
stay with her,
and we will be saved,