Be Like Water (inspired by the ESPN 30for30 "Be Water") - RZA

Boundless, yet when it’s surrounded, it appears to be bounded

It takes the shape of that which bounded it

Then imprints it’s old shape and before it evaporates and move on

Leaving a new landscape behind it

So we’re reminded

Be like water, don’t be bonded

Sometimes we gotta dig deep into our inner selves

Our own hurt to find it

Intercept the fist, Jeet-Kune-Do

Fluid movements, even flow

Even though, that it sounds like a lethal blow

We should know what it simply means to simplify

To re-simplify the best version of yourself

In light then, synthesize all days into one

We all one, under the same sun

So why you gotta fight against him and he gotta fight against Dun?

Be like water, water crosses over every border

From the mud of the Yangtze River to the sand beaches of Florida

My mental caught up

Turn my brain storm into a rain storm

You know if it’s uninspired then, here’s the new Wu-Tang song

(Be like water)

(Be like water)

Hollywood begins to realize what it is he actually has to offer

There was more to Bruce Lee than they’d originally imagined

Bruce comes on to the screen, he ignites it

His very presence on screen is a protest

(Be like water)

(Be like water)

Adaptations to situations

Before evaporating back to vapor

Then return back through precipitation

Cascading and pervading, existing as a mist

The one-inch punch is being drawn from the formless

I use that same Chi style to perform this

To understand the fury inside of Bruce Lee’s fist

Be like water (Water, water, water)

Be like water

Be like water

Be like water (Water, water, water)