Waiting for the Moon

[Verse 1: Quelle Chris] Yo, one city defines the state of a cold country 8:50, the night devours the day hungry Provide a light for freaks who precede from the rosters of 1/5th of club hoppers rocking their favorite outfits 1/5th of dopeheads tipping a fifth of vodka 1/5th of big fella thug niggas lifting the block up The other two vary in hoods throughout various projects Middle class areas carrying angels and monsters This is life, hip-hop's most dangerous topic Embedded in prophets who preach in the presence of moshpits But even in it’s most hectic the city is precious The powerful pressure felt when learning a hard lesson Confessions of first times in your lifeline Came with the sunshine after nights far from your right mind and Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's not Sometimes it's knucklehead niggas, lotta times it's the cops Some brothers live in the dark all day Rotting between the rock and a hard place 'Cause the light of day is a hard way to chase ya liquor up And it takes a hard shake to wake a nigga up Working the graveyard shift to get ya figures up Hitting the str-- Dollars weighing them strippers down Er'body waitin' for the moon to come around Like er'body waiting for the moon to come around Er'body waiting for the moon to come around Like er'body waiting for the moon to come around Like er'body waiting for the moon to come around Like er'body waiting for the moon to come around Er'body waitin' for the moon to come around [Chorus: Anna Wise] Don't waste your dreams It's never gonna be perfect (Perfect) Know how it seems Doing now is always worth it Sometimes it feels like (Feels like) You can't hold on, but hold on Don't let today bring you down Baby don’t you wait for the moon to come around [Verse 2: Jean Grae] Fernanda's mama said work hard Live hard because your time is short Exactly why I kicked my life into high-gear when my mama died Less traumatized than apologetic For all the times I waited on some kinda rise up Revolution from the people forget to make me equal To level the playing field at least to let me play the game But these two could never play the same I should have known it from her own shit How polarizing bullshit get, gender get, race get Perception get, stay in your place, get Know your role, no regrets Connection of your faith in yourself, and owning it Wish she could've lived out all her wishes fully without all her ties to us I say that with the understanding that I never could've lived out all my wishes even partly without all her ties to us But I'm alive, so thus I never wait for tomorrow 'cause it's the future Man this linear times a vacant suture Praise Tesla, never wait for shit to happen is the primal lesson So you best to get down now, come on [Chorus: Anna Wise] Don't waste your dreams It's never gonna be perfect (Perfect) Know how it seems Doing now is always worth it Sometimes it feels like (Feels like) You can't hold on, but hold on Don't let today bring you down Baby don’t you wait for the moon to come around [Verse 3: Mosel] Moon, scratch that Muna In Arabic, that be desire, a frequent flyer Fixing up my discipline, the days reveal my destiny Niggas can't eff with me, like Nasir's daughter Better get your money up, the Rap Gods taunt us Mistakes from the previous generation still haunt us The age of awakening's upon us But they don't really want us to tap into Ubuntu, regardless Folks waiting for the moon I'm waiting for my son to come around 'Cause my BM on her BS, what a fucking clown What I'm gon' do now? Be stressed? Sike, we blessed to travel peaks and valleys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is keeping the tallies of life's test So reverence your testimony with glory Al Rahman ir-Rahim authored the story Abdul Jabbar used to spit bars in cars with Corey Mosel been that nigga since I was dating Midori Rewind Selectah! But time flies I done seen thousands of moons in my lifetime I done seen it from both sides of the globe clothed under luminous night skies They'll be plenty more moons Insha’Allah Everybody waiting for they moon to come around I'm just praying that my son can hear me now [Chorus: Anna Wise] Don't waste your dreams It's never gonna be perfect (Perfect) Know how it seems Doing now is always worth it Sometimes it feels like (Feels like) You can't hold on, but hold on Don't let today bring you down Baby don’t you wait for the moon to come around