On Your Shoulders - Urthboy, Solo, Jimblah

I see em talkin like I talk it

I can walk it if I’m cautious at times

Fumblin words a verse is imperfect

Yet to define or explain

It’s kinda hard rather simple an plain

We maintain by ourselves do gooders seek the change

Go about it the wrong way like

It’s been a long day

We all in this struggle together

These are the breaks that we face

We can change but ourselves then others as well

Lead the example then follow they shall

So young Padawan, word, get ya battle on

Respect is a two way street, remember what up

Knowledge is the key to the treasure we possess, hold ya head

We in it for the long haul respect, uh huh

My mother said «think before you says», word em up

My unc said «look before you step», so ahh

I let the music speak for itself

One love to each their own and everybody else

You can carry it all on your shoulders

Like you’re the only one to resolve it

Let’s just try to be, to be

What’s your motivation?

Is it yourself or the change you’re making?

Let’s just try to be, to be, to be

Believe they hype

Moving faster than the speed of light

Each day it’s getting harder to sleep at night

Still it’s funny

Trying to appease the guilt and worry

That comes with sunny living in the land of milk and honey

As fate would have it, we inhabit an era where

Activism’s considered sharing a facebook status

Cover the night and make Kony famous

Simplistic ideas and benevolent strangers

(So what you’re saying is)

Who gave you the authority?

Put you in a position of superiority?

You got to ask yourself, what’s the priority?

The change you wanna see or who you want to be seen to be?

Straining under the weight of a heavy conscience

But people got to solve their own problems man

Won’t ever accept what’s forced on em

Best we can do is lend a helping hand

Cos you’ve seen first hand what people can do

How it defies the beliefs that’s feeding you view

It’s like you didn’t know the devil was sleeping with you

And sleeping with me too it’s gotta be better anew

Afresh, and we ain’t set up a a colony yet

On Jupiter and Mars batten down the hatches

And bars we get

A little protective of our patch of turf and yet

Apparent we’re not apparent of it

Or more clever than it

Come here we’ll tear you to bits

How many lessons can you fit in a classroom of kids?

How many billions could you reach that you care to convince?

And those you hold dear, are they there in your midst?

Do they know you battle with pen or the fist?

Trying to make everything right

Trying to make everything fix

As if everything you consider wrong wasn’t meant to exist

But to somebody then that’d be this