Black Boy - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Black boy

Lost in the dust

And found in the heavens

You understand what I’m saying?

That your destiny is in eternity

You never were originated

And you’ll never be destroyed

Your destiny is with the people of the earth

Who came out of you

And now they are returning

So does your job to prepare yourself

For what is to come

What is past is past

But it’ll last forever

Because it prepared for you

The future that you have before you

When I was a little boy in Mississippi

We sang every morning when we went to school

And I could feel the energy of all my students

We enjoyed school so much

Because we sang every morning before we started

At sundawn we would play a game called «hide and seek»

And in that game

One person would say this riddle

Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door

I got up, and let 'em in

Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin

And then we could go

And seek out the first person we could find hiding

And that person became it

And then they would go and sing

Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door

I got up, and let 'em in

Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin

Now, when I was maybe 30, something

I looked up at the stars one night

And it startled me because I felt something

And no one told me that the stars have feelings

And so it took me out of the world that we were all

Sequested in

And it allowed me to go on to the world of eternity

And I’ve been there now, 50 years coming

And it’s taught me

This, rolling pin gives us that authority

Because it is the only symbol in the hands of Orion

In ancient Egypt, Archimid

It was called a scroll

In the Bible, in the fourth and fifth chapter of the revelation

It’s called a man with a book in his hands

But we found out it was the rolling pin that we were talking about

The 24 robbers are the 24 stars surrounding the constellation called Orion

And so, I got up, and let 'em in

Means that he crossed the milky way

Which is the galaxy that we are part of

And I hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin

Meant that, in that rolling pin is the knowledge of our eternity

I think that, it’s what it means to be a black boy

To be lost, to be envious, and selfish

To be misguided and confused

But, somehow, to realize, that you’re the whole package

And it’s your responsibility to find your eternity on this earth