Release - Blackalicious, Saul Williams, Lyrics Born

Release

Release

Release

Prevalent melanin elephant bailin'

And carrying sedatives that’ll give average lettermen callouses

Wrecking with savageness, catalyst

Battling rappers’ll stagger right after the dagger is left in it

Cherish this caliber (Release) Atticus

Shatter your algebra with calculus (give it up)

Damage your patterns I’m pounding you so fabulous (give it up)

Enough is enough is enough and I’m busting up outta this shell

An eruption that ruptures your structure to fuck with you (Release)

Up in ya gut, you a costumer

Huffing and puffing, discussing absolutely nothing, disgusting me

Plus infinity’s up in me rushing your country percussion

No wonder you’re struck in the boundaries

Wake up if you’re lunging, I’m something, you’re nothing (Release)

Now come see me grunting

I’m hunting for what emcees want

And I’m stomping my foot through your armies

They couldn’t have stopped me with shotties

Oddity, why did he, why do these entire societies inside of societies

And survivors still remain alive (Release) emcees

Thriving to flow, opting to go

Five hundred and fifty-five syllables to go

Split em' with the subliminal intentional digital pro

Unlimited flows unriveted, inhibited, visited

Now you can’t get rid of it like (Release) what is this

This magnificent, intimate, inner wit, in a minute finna be antonyms

In it with a gig, big fat heads like eggs Benedict

Pigs lick shit, rip with words and abysmal energy

It’s time I (destroy the beast, release)

Inner breathlessness, outer restlessness

By the time I caught up to freedom I was out of breath

Grandma asked me what I’m running for

I guess I’m out for the same thing the sun is sunning for

What mothers birth their youngens for

And some say Jesus coming for

For all I know the earth is spinning slow

Suns at half mast cause masses ain’t aglow

On bended knee, prostrate before an altered tree

I’ve made the forest suit me

Tables and chairs

Papers and prayers

Matter versus spirit

A metal ladder

A wooden cross

A plastic bottle of water

A mandala encased in glass

A spirit encased in flesh

Sound from shaped hollows

The thickest of mucus released from heightened passion

A man that cries in his sleep

A truth that has gone out of fashion

A mode of expression

A paint splattered wall

A carton of cigarettes

A bouquet of corpses

A dying forest

A nurtured garden

A privatized prison

A candle with a broken wick

A puddle that reflects the sun

A piece of paper with my name on it

I’m surrounded

I surrender

All

All that I am I have been

All I have been has been a long time coming

I am becoming all that I am

The spittle that surrounds the mouth-piece of the flute

Unheard, yet felt

A gathered wetness

A quiet moisture

Sound trapped in a bubble

Released into wind

Wind fellows and land merchants

We are history’s detergent

Water soluble, light particles, articles of cleansing breath

Articles amending death

These words are not tools of communication

They are shards of metal

Dropped from eight story windows

They are waterfalls and gas leaks

Aged thoughts rolled in tobacco leaf

The tools of a trade

Barter’s bard, barb of barters

Catch phrases and misunderstandings

But they are not what I feel when I am alone

Surrounded by everything and nothing

And there isn’t a word or phrase to be caught

A verse to be recited

A mantra to fill my being in those moments

I am blankness, the contained center of an «O»

The pyramidic containment of an «A»

I stand in the middle of all that I have learned

All that I have memorized

All that I’ve known by heart

Unable to reach any of it

There is no sadness

There is no bliss

It is a forgotten memory

A memorable escape route that only is found by not looking

There, in the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless

They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness

But then, who else can speak of thoughtlessness with such confidence

Who else has learned to sling these ancient ideas

Like dead rats held by their tails

So as not to infect this newly oiled skin

I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane

I can think of no greater conglomerate of steel and metal

I can think of nothing less likely to fly

There are no wings more weighted

I too have felt a heaviness

The stare of man guessing at my being

Yes I am homeless

A homeless man making offerings to the after-future

Sculpting rubber tree forests out of worn tires and shoe soles

A nation unified in exhale

A cloud of smoke

A native pipe ceremony

All the gathered cigarette butts piled in heaps

Snow covered mountains

Lipsticks smeared and shriveled

Offerings to an afterworld

Tattoo guns and plastic wrappers

Broken zippers and dead eyed dolls

It’s all overwhelming me, oak and elming me

I have seeded a forest of myself

Little books from tall trees

It matters not what this paper be made of

Give me notebooks made of human flesh

Dried on steel hooks and nooses

Make uses of use, uses of us

It’s all overwhelming me, oak and elming me

I have seeded a forest of myself

Little books from tall trees

On bended knee

Prostrate before an altered tree

I’ve made the forest suit me

Tables and chairs

Papers and prayers

Matter vs. spirit.

Through meditation

I program my heart to beat breakbeats and hum basslines on exhalation

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The heaven-sent benevolent medicine man reverend

Peddling deliverance that resemble amphetamines to

The residents in the meadow of pestilence

Who developed a chemical dependence on pessimism, now

Is he is, or is he ain’t

The most distinctive speaker seeping through your sleepy speakers

Yes he is, oh, yes indeed

So distinguished, so close some people think he’s half

Ain’t no secret, people, trust me it’s mostly hustling

That moves me upstream but just focus on the unseen

Boasting and fussing, they both so unproductive

Suppose it go in my blood stream, Let me pose this question

Ask anybody, that’s anybody

They’ll tell you that the antibody to the petty

Potty mouth gossiping is

Success at something, to be the best at something

And not to stress the dumb shit, 'cause you ain’t missing nothing

You got to

Motivate, accelerate, never wait, know your weight, throw away hate

Grow and make weight of your older days

Elevate, concentrate, get your focus straight, aim, orchestrate fate

Just motivate, accelerate, never wait, show the way, no escape

Take hold and shift shape, live a longer day

Elevate, concentrate, get your focus straight, aim, orchestrate fate

Astrologists, colleges follow this through the metropolis

The dominant brown bomber, I’m in it, being prominent

Walking it mean, talking it, clean the scene, stalking it

Volcanic, got ya’ll panicking, false canyon

And always all day outlandish bandits

Be slandering what we mastering cause they can’t catch us

They all pray for our downfall, maybe one day, sike!

You never get no balance if you’re crooked so play right, snake

I’m mongoosin' on you, stormtroopin' through your form

bar none oncoming, onslaught

On one chopping you, I’ll tomahawk, trauma hawk

Long running champ and rocking shit 'till I’m gone

You’re a Tom Thumb and I’m King Kong Bundy strong

Thunder all summer long, keep on coming dawn

Dusk, night, morning I’ll bust tight poems

Raw, just mic zoning ya’ll with the right mode of motivation

Motivate, accelerate, never wait, know your weight, throw away hate

Grow and make weight of your older days

Elevate, concentrate, get your focus straight, aim, orchestrate faith

Just motivate, accelerate, never wait, show the way, no escape

Take hold and shift shape, live a longer day

Elevate, concentrate, get your focus straight, aim, orchestrate faith