Take Heed

[Verse] Another baby born, another stolen life To claim the day as yours, to see through open eyes He say he know the truth, I know who told him lies The tree with deepest roots, when lightning struck it died How can I be of use? My limit is the totem size In the event of your demise we cried And kept it pushing, its peaks and valleys The totality I'm overlooking That nigga did his dirt in secret, I'll let karma whoop him Where it took him ain't no secret It's an art to being decent, nothing partial when it's even Oddly ought to find a reason say The odyssey is sleepless, safe Too many are in need of sage It's hard it ain't no easy way to god, who doesn't need a face I remember bleeding, I I remember seeing things, I'm forever singing praises Journeyed through too many facets Many phases, done worn too many faces Too many masks, too many men with lack of demonstration Let the past inform the present, like the future ancient Was led astray, he disobeyed then put in place a sanction Full of joy and full of rage and simultaneously thankless He never knew his feelings spoke a language I saw ninety like a angle Alternating universe, at five l saw an angel Playing bata for Orisha at the toque with the Kangol That's how I see my father through the lens I choose to paint through Water at my ankles and grief at my Achilles Nowadays I choose to thank you 'Cause voids need filling Healing and hurting, on the surface are the same thing Blame is for a person, and learning is the great deed, take heed [Outro: Martín Prechtel] I remember you Remembering us, remembering you I remember it every time we eat I remember, you, spirits, all of the spirits that give us life Remembering us I remember all these spirits, remembering us, remembering you It's a loop And you make a song out of [scats] The back and forth dialogue You give a gift to them They're givin' a gift to you Givin' a gift to you Givin' a give to them Givin' a gift to you Givin' a gift to them [?] So you're not alone