The Vols

So I guess it must have started way back when

when I came to this earth like lightening

or else I wouldn't even be here still writing down

the thoughts to break the world down, how frightening

the way fate twists your arms to make you

come face to face with your people

in need of a voice and you must make a choice

to heed the call or you drop the ball

I didn't want to be the latter, of course the former

therefore I transformed to become, one with the sun

the son of a salary man now off to a path of

salvaging men from Babylonia

I walk on the streets of California yeah

bless an accent that's our slang

Asiatic and Pacifica Islander twang

from the main land to the archipelago

volcanic ashes to the desert blow

no matter how harsh, nomadic in nature

nocturnal senses razor sharp like a ninja

I camouflage with society, never mean to assimilate

more like assassinate and dissipate, no need to medicate

I levitate like when I mediate, let it marinate

(kensho)

From the town of civil rights and protests

where young men and women strived to protect

our freedom of speech some died in process

know it's a priveledge took time to progress

my past projects are tips of the iceberg

even if I get filthy rich off these tight words

still can't buy, or save with cash

what my people lost since the A-bomb blast

dead shoguns and warlords killed by the

blowguns and short swords, who paved the path

send me these deep verses,

lost identities keep searchin'

don't ever behave or act like no fashion mag

Ken Kuma's reincarnated ronin,

where other replacements at?

clubs to basements packed

of course I'm wilden' sippin' kirins

chillin' with women from foreign islands

V-O-L-S

stay on the current like electric volts

speak without fear with selected quotes

from the U.S. to A-S-I-A

yes I, volunteer working night and day

V-O-L-S

Kensho Kuma here to serve the masses

Shing02 represent the classes

(kensho)

In this game, pay yo dues and yo tuition

no man could ever take my use of intuition

I gained through drug abuse and institution

this music, help youth with they confusion

the truth is, only few men are ruthless to influence

a kid like ken, who's in pursuit of improvement?

true skills ain't amusment, it's gruesome we be lootin'

like a viking, manuever through the deep ruins

the tombs and monuments prove that war is an ill artform

and the battles of the past were real hardcore

to fight today why I keep my skills sharp for

my life's worth more then a sealed barcode

more then any amount of cash or Louis Vuitton

more then the fattest ass on groupies seen on

dance floors in the 'Sco, Berkeley, to Shinjuku

I feel soooo worthy I've been through crews

but haters still hate lookin' hard at my shows

ladies be like 'you gotta charmin' tight flow

far as life goes did harm to right folks

the bars that I wrote reverse karmic cycle

Jovian's beats knock, I'm ready for deep thought

get our remedies from medical weed spot

pay our dues, we got elected to speak up!

(shing02)

While y'all downloading that digital junk

I'm up uploading that critical funk

I got the hopes of a nation of a hundred mil'

plus when I bust on stage I reflect the will

like a giant mirror ball pure crystalline

I'm a breath of fresh air mean lysterine

front row get a dose of some extra spit

flow over any riddm and I got to split

'cause I found the kit that will fix the glitch

in a code full of bugs and some dirty script

try flipping on the tube another what? old news

a whole generation feels confused

I see clear now that the war is on

legally any land is a military zone, gotta hold my own

firing off on-point lyrics from the clip on me microphone

V-O-L-S

stay on the current like electric volts

speak without fear with selected quotes

from the U.S. to A-S-I-A

yes I, volunteer working night and day

V-O-L-S

Kensho Kuma here to serve the masses

Shing02 represent the classes