First In Flight

Chorus:

First in flight (repeated 4x)

Gil scott-heron:

(cause all we got is rhythm and timin'

We go beyond the edge of the sky)

[gift of gab]

Free! like a bird out in the wind in the night

Like a 747 to la that's in flight

Free! like a garden flourishing in the wind

Like a student bout to do it when he's graduatin

Free! from any of the energy perception

Can never be defined create the definition within

Free! just lovin life itself and never pretend to be

Anything other than the man i was meant to be

Travel through time and get a glimpse of the centuries

To come a better day is promised remember

Free! like my nephew in a few months about to be out the

Penitentiary

Meditation(repeated 9x)

Chorus

[gift of gab]

Uh! i never hesitate about a reluctant mind

Just put the peddle to the metal see what ya find

You back there slouchin over won't you pick up your spine?

Let's make it really really happen live up this time

Cause you can choose to say "good morning god" or

"good god, morning"

With black clouds storming

I walk without umbrellas into these woods

Don't need em cause the mighty trees will shelter me good

I'm eating berries from the bushes of the heavenly good

From the ?stakes/steaks? the power came to us whenever we stood

Reverberatin out we're reachin each and every hood

Whenver we could the spiritual anatomy fool

But never take the credit for it b cause that'd be rude

It's just the way in life we searchin for that had to be new

You gotta work it though cause everyday ain't saturday fool

Evolve into a better life and be happy with you and me

Chorus

[gil scott-heron]

The first to fly

The first to strive

The first to fight to stay alive

The first to win

The first to strike

The first to live

The first in flight

[gift of gab]

Rise! like the sun up at the crack of the dawn

Like a wakin child in the morning stretchin and yawnin

Rise! like an infant being held in the light

Like the smoke from an incense when it's ignited

Rise! if you're sleepin won't you open your eyes again

The greatest high be that natural high within

No need to force the progression just ride the wind

You'll know the answer to the where and why and when

If you keep workin for your search you will find the end

Though at the end you find it only begins again

See at the end you'll see it only begins again

And everything you learn you're only rememberin

Cause you're

Chorus (repeat 4x)

[gift of gab: repeat 2x]

It's me

Let your mind and your soul be free

Work to shine meet your goal believe

Spread that kind of l-o-v-e

Take some time off the lonely

[gil scott-heron: repeat to end]

Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'

We go beyond the edge of the sky