Reckoner (Akala's The War Mixtape - sampling Radiohead's Reckoner)
As I sit here at the end of the last few digits Fear (?) runs through my blood like spirits Same warm touch of a drink or a dream But the day's halfway and I'm staring at the screen Downloading progress, 2 minutes remaining 30 seconds, 10 seconds, save it Burn faster on disc but not yet play this Cos time cools and nine months abate it Plus, this is special so I've gotta prepare Let the day gaze past and watch for night stare Drive to the hills overlooking this metropolis A city like scene to reflect what's on top of it (?) like I feel calm as nowhere We close our eyes and perceive to go there Where words can't define, you can't quite find Put it somewhere between your soul and your mind See, if a picture paints a thousand words Then the song paints a thousand pictures Believe me, this is lost food So it is not crude, that we couldn't bar choose but make love to nude As much as I've fled, there's one thing you said Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head (Chorus) As much as I've fled, there's one thing you said Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head (Chorus) As much as I've fled, there's one thing you said Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head As far as we know, you only get one And what you got still stays here when you're done So is it nurture or nature? Trees or paper? Is it the less wise, the higher the skyscraper? Is it the times who inherit your mankind Catch up with the space but can't treat a man kind Seems, the only vision is the mind blind To see difference the only time we use our eyes But look at creation There ain't no borders or nations It's just that we make em Or even racist, that's just an idea I don't know the purpose of life but I know it's not fear Bombs are powerless, they can't stop time yet We are hourless if we can't find A better way of doing this Something that is true in this Is it not our fault that we pursue it till we ruins it You can take as much as Earth will permit you but (Chorus) As much as I've fled, there's one thing you said Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head (Chorus) As much as I've fled, there's one thing you said Kept going round and round in my head Kept going round and round in my head We don't need a watch and chain, we need freedom Anything that stops your brain that ain't freedom Cos you ain't clothed in chains, that ain't freedom All of this shit they feed us, we don't need em We don't need a watch and chain, we need freedom Can't you see we're dying aside, the (?) face that we're hiding behind? You see, we're not gangsters, just lost little boys We're nothing So we've got to find something to fill the void so empty that it's overflowing And you can't pay attention to any of the other's flowing There's no honesty, if I'm honest it bothers me By definition, opinions are positions to offeree Look and Martin or Malcolm Both johns the same fate They feed us food but we choose to scrape plates It tastes great, but does it have a great taste You can only build on a safe base Hip hop never started in 1975 This is African tradition that has managed to survive Through, thousands of years And all that is gone This is not why I'm hot, this is what I'm from