Hold On

 Weave yourself a way out of this cave

The water's rising to your feet

The hours speed and time is ticking

All alone you started out but

Listen to the breeze the sky is

Coming in to see how you are doing

Hold on

Open-eyed and eager you have

Followed every siren now you're

Stuck here in the dead and born and gone

Small and silent hands are waiting

Simply say the word, oh there is

Reason to believe the morrow's dawn

Hold on

And in and out the needle goes

The rise, the fall, the rest, the note

The in between, the never seen

And out and in the tidal waves

The pull, the push, the knife, the blade

The marks we make, the line won't break

Hold on

Hold on

Are You Gonna Rise (For LeVar)

If you get that call are you gonna rise?

If you get that call are you gonna rise?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

If you get that call are you gonna rise?

If the children sing will you harmonise?

If the children sing will you harmonise?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

If you hear their song are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

If faith comes in disguise will you recognize?

If you hear their call are you gonna rise?

If the ancestors call are you gonna rise?

If the ancestors call are you gonna rise?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

If the ancestors call are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

If faith comes in disguise are you gonna rise?

If you hear their call are you gonna rise?

It echoes from the skies are you gonna rise?

It echoes from the skies are you gonna rise?

All the birds and butterflies, and all the stars in the skies?

If you hear their song are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

Are you gonna rise?

If faith comes in disguise will you recognize?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

If you hear their cries are you gonna rise?

Time is a River

    

Rushing by my door 

I hear the babble

Hidden inside the war

The mystery of existences

Dances in my dreams

Closing the distances

Nothing's what it seems

The call of possibility

Gives me the courage to be free

To open up my mind's eye

To see what I can see  

And I don't have to go there

Cos I'm already here

On the road to nowhere as it disappears

When I'm feeling low down

Like I'm just about near the end

I listen to the sound and it picks me up

And takes me home again

Takes me home again

Takes me home again

With songs of another world

Painting pictures in my mind

Travelling towards infinity

I leave this world behind

I don't need a TV screen 

To carry me away

I've got Frieda, Jack and Mojo Sam

To take me where they may

And I don't have to go there

Cos I'm already here

On a moving road to nowhere as it disappears

When I'm feeling low down

Like I'm just about near the end

I listen to the sound and it picks me up

And takes me home again

Takes me home again

Takes me home again

They say a picture's worth a thousand words

But for me I know that isn't so

Cos the pictures come to me in a woven tapestry

Amadeo

On the radio

Change or Die

On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
Connecticut gray
Wraps me in its carcass  
Where the fall meets fall from grace
I’ll never come up with a life hack or anything to save me from this place

Nah

I seek change not a savior
Some days living off loose change in the sofa
Don’t know the exact day that I became a grown up
Just know it was too soon
Live quick like a throw up

Graffiti or the bile
Since I was a child
Been breathing wild style
From heaters to the dome
To cooking rock  on stoves
With black & gold  kings as kid
To make a few bones  

Like

Jack Skellington
Mother fought hard to give us everything she did
Nightmares still stick to skin
Like my sins
And fucked up plenty times but tough like Ocean Vuong

Don’t ever say the homie’s soft
Mother is a hoarder
Mother raised a boss
Never disrespect me in my city little cop

I promise you the ending won’t  be pretty
So stop

Baby
I’m a Hartford Wells Fargo heist
1983
Swimming
In my dirty blood for life
Trying to get free

Boricua Machetero in my soul
Independent as fuck

Company Flow 

She's a Teacher

I can see you, bright as the sun

Oh you're a teacher, yea she's a teacher

Clear as I see

Wave after wave, space after space

Oh She's a teacher, yea she's a teacher

Taking the lead

In a million pieces, my thoughts dissolve

Time is an ocean, my body's a sail

It's illuminating, and I feel so small

Hold hands with creation, a profound ideation

Color me pink, color me black

Oh she's a teacher, yea she's a teacher

keep me on track

Is it the drugs, or is it in me

Or are you my teacher, oh you're a teacher

Clear as I see

Painted on the ceiling, show me what you mean

Glitter and thunder, pulls me down under

Tell me how much further, my brain can stretch

Hold hands with creation, a profound ideation

Hold hands with creation 

Threads

 A book is never just a book

there's always a backstory

an uphill climb that's overlooked

or something grim and gory 

Someone had to find the pieces

and put them together

Write a letter, get on a plane, go out and find the answers

There's so many stories to be told

all the threads that connect us

so many things we can't control 

all the different perceptions

Gotta let perfection go 

before it breaks us

On your desk, something grotesque

we hold hidden seasons

a paperweight, the skull of a snake

tell me all your reasons

So many stories to be told

all the threads that connect us

so many things we can't control 

all the different perceptions

Gotta let perfection go 

before it breaks us

It's okay to take some time

have the room to yourself

to make up your mind

Every look is just a look

we get to share the stages

take what we know and what we learn

and read between the pages

So many stories to be told

all the threads that connect us

so many things we can't control 

all the different perceptions

Gotta let perfection go 

before it breaks us

Rest Between Breaths

 CHORUS
 
C Am F
What the world needs now is a rest
G
Between breaths
C Am F
All the world needs now is a rest
G
Between breaths
 
G
 
Verse
F
When you’re feeling upside down
G
If you’re longing for higher ground
C
Might be with you all along
F
Just a breath to bring you home
 
Am
Butterflies and bumblebees
C
Feel the wind move through the trees
F
Settle with the flow of life
G
Finding treasures deep inside
 
CHORUS
What the world needs now is a rest
Between breaths
All the world needs now is a rest
Between breaths
 
One chorus Instrumental (theme) C Em F G
 
VERSE
Some might say that we are lost
Overwhelmed with such exhaust
Let each breath restore your soul
As you share that inner glow.
 
Butterflies and bumblebees
Feel the wind move through the trees
Settle with the flow of life
Finding treasures deep inside
 
Chorus Instrumental (theme)
 
MIDDLE
Am
Where you go
Em
Now here you are
F
You found yourself
G
You come so far
 
Em
There you are
Am
Now here you were
F
All this time
G
Glowing in stir
 
Dm Am Em F
There you’ll find..... me
 
 
CHORUS x2
C Dm Am Fm
 
Dm Em/C F G
 
C Dm F G
 
Am G F