Pedagogue of Young Gods

Are you afraid to have someone believe in you?

Can you commit to your ideals?

Even if you think nothing of it

Are you willing to allow others to think the world of it

And of you?

Pedagogue of Young Gods

All slavery ever does is free you

All anyone ever does is an example

All power is just collective energy

To abuse the privilege is to sell your soul

And that is to rent with the illusion of owning

We are the landlords

If you misunderstand us

You're dead and deserve your demise

Your dominion is your overthrow

The controllers are controlled

Spread the word

It will save you

And depends on you to be understood

There is no school bell, only nursery

Our heroes reward us with stars

Ever-still, ever-moving

We sing to ourselves in our cars

Music is our sanctuary

Anywhere you put it it's ours

Our living voice

Our living testament

We dream aloud

We scream and shout

Our courage will defeat them

Our struggle will unite us

Our wisdom is ourselves

Our resources our own

Our blood ocean

Our skin oil

We are mountain and waterfall

They cannot contain us

Their prisons will not restrain us

Their customs will not un-name us

We are what they know in their hearts

You guessed it

You knew that

You felt it

You tried to doubt it

Denied it

But you knew it

Ain't nobody had to tell you

We had them from the start

A world apart, a world within

Ancient and luminous

The before before and the hereafter

We are the essence of laughter

The comforting prayer

And the gatekeepers

And the street-sweepers

A mountain of ports outside of a city of dreams

A bird that prays, yet offers its wingspan to the wind

Things are not as they seem

We hover above while giving the appearance of scurrying below

All is as it should be

We are more than we know

More than we hoped and dreamed

A generation of generators

A power source and supply

The better we learn to live

The better we learn to die

Old as anything

Old as everything

We are participants in a ritual

Older than our collective memory

A marriage of heart and mind

Secular and divine

All is as it should be

Slavery carefully bred us

No child of Greece or Rome can behead us

We are ahead of our time

Slavery was simply a state of mind

Hip-hop reminded us of confidence

Overcoming now is simply common sense

You deserve the ice and the riches of Solomon

But don't let warped values turn you into hollow men

Education is the only thing given that cannot be taken

Learn to think for yourself

Analyze the forsaken

Pimp your fears

Surrender to love

Dance all night when you need to

Play this song for a thug

Let 'em know ain't no judgment

We all hustle and grind

Any system against us is against the divine

But there's no sense of glory in repenting

And repeating

Their mistakes

You have a greater calling

Answering it is all it takes

Take a second to hear this

And go back about your day

Know that laws don't govern us

We're governed by what we say

What we think, why we think it, how we handle

Place no blame, point no fingers, take your aim

Shoot to kill the bullshit