The Darkest Part

[Chorus: Kid Sister] Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you, find the one thing they can't see Though they say They'll take your pain Don't give it away [Verse 1: Black Thought] Yo, I'm like Thelonious at the underground piano Dressed in camo, the grenades, guns and ammo Death to Sambo, send him a bouquet and a candle I came to take back that other two-fifths of a man, so From a silhouette standin' in the aperture To a figurehead standin' in the path of a killer Young gorilla just scramblin' for Africa Crept and will accept nothing but a massacre Premonition of intuition is a bitch Got a message from the heavens, all it said is to resist Keep it brief like an elevator pitch Or delegate'll switch 'cause the spirit is a snitch In America, the rich love to wear it on they wrist They call the shots, they don't wear it on they lip Jinglin' of the chains, I can still hear it on the ship One hand loads the clip, feel the rubber on the grip Me and my reflection sendin' one another on a trip I'm under 21 and bent, now you know what punishment, listen It ain't an easy odyssey for you to follow me We do kinesiology with no apology [Chorus: Kid Sister] Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you, find the one thing they can't see Though they say They'll take your pain Don't give it away [Verse 2: Black Thought] Yo, the deeper the breath, the louder the scream I cower between the two monsters out of my dream A Cadillac, a limousine, an anti-nigga machine And if I wake up alive, I bet they won’t come clean Umpteen times, the warning signs went unseen To me, they done something, they tried to clip my wings But not before I understood how any caged bird sings The soul was something before we became earthlings Freedom is better than heroin, morphine or methadone They force-feed their fears into our flesh and bone Inside of my confessional, I decompress alone I'm more skeptical of following the metronome I guess technically I'm on another echelon It just gets to me the way they lay the pressure on It ain't an easy odyssey for you to follow me We do kinesiology with no apology [Chorus: Kid Sister & Raekwon] Shine the light into the darkest part of me (Right, right, right) All around you, find the one thing they can't see (Start the wave, God) Though they say (Talk your talk, nigga, let's go, nigga) They'll take your pain (How that shit go?) [Verse 3: Raekwon] Boy grown, hands like Roy Jones King Tut bracelet on, encrusted, flooded in stones, bro Hardest and the sharpest, merge like three-bedroom apartments Pick one room, they all boom, let me start this My art retarded, kids, the arsonist and ostrich The moon is the part, we been partners, shit Say no other, we the Jungle Brothers out in Kenya How we did in December loadin' them cartridges The lines is like nines, P80s, mean babies Word to mama, poor llamas, paper we seein' crazy Louis Rich, he the drummer Thoughts from the black boy, boy, mama call ya See the numbers stay maxin' and relaxin' Truck jewelry and 2020 seven Hummers, we saw I seen your stunters gettin' busy on the bridge Headed out fleein' You're dope D'ing, stop wasting time, take some shine [Chorus: Kid Sister] Shine the light into the darkest part of me All around you, find the one thing they can't see Though they say They'll take your pain Don't give it away