In Tune (feat. Amir Sulaiman)

I heard him call out

I heard him call for his mother

And I didn't even call my mother

I wanted to avoid talking about

The elephant in the room

The pig on my neck

The devil on detail

We were born of a people

Who were torn from their people

For the root of all evil

From it sprung the trunk

The branches and the fruit of all evil

Unless they need you

They act as if they don't see you

Besiege you and tell you to cooperate

As if it's something you agreed to

But for a criminals constitution nothings illegal

Except people

Who were once property destroying property

Upheaval

Keep your eye on the sparrow

The bald eagle

Defeathered and beheaded at the stoop of the steeple

Guarded by soldiers, stupid yet lethal

It doesn't matter if a liar has a republic or democracy

Or monarchy, it's malarkey

Don't mind me if I seem a little off key

Or I sing a little off key

But when we're on keys

We can unlock things

Souls freed otherwise held hostage

On the ebony and ivory with the heart of a gnostic

But hands of a locksmith

A pharmacist

A prescription for the toxic

Eating away at our subconscious

8 ball in the corner pocket

8 ball on the corner cop it

How can we stop it

When the cops and the robbers

Money is their religion, they follow the same profits?

So don't mind me if I seem a little off key

If I sing a little off key

But once we get intune

Oh, we can conduct the cosmos

Conductor of the orchestra

Conductor of the underground railroad

Don't you see the kick, the thump, the heart?

The crashing cymbals as symbols of shields?

No Captain America

No cap in America

If you're black

In a finger snap, fade to black in America

So don't mind me if I seem a little off key

Or I sing a little off key

More than mere melody

Using horn and string to quarantine from a disease

That sees us less as human more as things

So we don't play music

We pray music

Those same nooses hang useless

Raise the dead like Jesus did

We don't play music

We pray music

Vivid lucid

Dreams

Let loose in the pure heart with divine acoustics

We lay blueprints at the Blue Note

I come from a people transmuted

Transformed by song

Until the musicians are translucent

Until you see through them

And see through this

And bear witness to the Oneness

That from nothingness brought forth all of existence

So don't mind me if I seem a little off key

Or I sing a little off key

It's more than mere melody

I'm in tune

We're in tune