The Craft

[Chorus]

This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe

This style, they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show

This life, I've been given a gift tonight

And for that, I vow to be a vessel

[Gift of Gab - Verse One]

I didn't have to be, given the gift to rip

I'll never master me, I know that it's from Him

or Her or It, dimensions that sit

Waitin' to sift through me, I fall short, still it hits me swift

I didn't have to see, I coulda hit the lick

I coulda drifted it quick, I coulda quit so quick

It's really a trip, I guess I was picked

I don't know what I did to deserve a ride like this (Damn!)

I didn't have to eat, I coulda been so thin

I didn't have to be, quoting these sentences

I didn't have to reap, the work put in but then

even the work in itself was such a blessin

I didn't have to see, the planet lip to lip

I didn't have to make, a livin' writ to writ

I didn't have to dream and then begin to live it

And for that, I vow to be a vessel

[Chorus]

This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe

This style, they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show

This life, I've been given a gift tonight

And for that, I vow to be a vessel

[Verse Two]

I give thanks for my rhymin' ability

I don't front like it's not a responsibility

I can open a mind, if the youth will listen to me

I'm not goin' to front, like I'm on some killin' spree

and as hard as the times are, God is livin' through beats

that come not from minds, but that travel through spiritual reasons

Some of the time, I feel like, it's not even me

No mon-ey can buy gateways to infinity

Still I'm hun-gry to shine, when I know I should let it be

I want but I have, every single thing that we need

So help me align self with soul and then I'll be free

To sculpt and design verbal styles and experience freedom

[Chorus]

This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe

This style, they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show

This life, I've been given a gift tonight

And for that, I vow to be a vessel

[Chief Xcel samples]

"Let go, do what's in front of you"

"Then, let go, then do what's in front of you"

[Verse Three]

This ain't leisure, although it feels

It is a duty, a way to live, another way to give

Another way to just, have communion

With the source of the sun and moon and, a way to pay the bills

Displayin' skills, I take it REAL serious

The vibe's so mysterious, not just one more day to kill

..and I could lose my connection

if I do not respect it enough, fffade away it will

Day to day it gives energies

That replenish me, if I believe and I say it will

and act on it, 'cause action is the key to freedom

Only way to be a leader, lead by the way you live

[Chorus 3X]

This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe

This style, they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show

This life, I've been given a gift tonight

And for that, I vow to be a vessel