My Mind's Changed

[Chorus: Selah]

My mind’s changed

It’s part of living this life

So wrong or right

We expand our mind

'Cause my mind’s changed

I don’t know what to say

Along the way many wrongs in this place

'Cause my mind’s changed

The things were better before

I ain’t sure that they matter anymore

'Cause my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed, my mind’s changed

[Verse 1: Akala]

In my mind a thousand characters battle to be heard

Each one screaming at the top of their lungs, so I can’t make out a word

An odd occasion, one of the fools within my cranium

Recovers the rules, discovers the tools for good communicatin'

And the beatin' ceases, a million jigsaw pieces

Shard of my shattered childhood fit together so easy

And violence has meaning, poverty's honourable

That’s me projecting back from the space I am now

When you in it and you live it, it is more than just horrible

Any day you wake up your life can announce

Don’t quote me statistics, that won’t cure the fear

When I can see the life expectancy is half of my peers

I done made it to 30, further than my mother thought

Can't lie, I went off the rails but never did get caught

Maybe the strength from my mind or power's divine

Or good old fashion love will explain it just fine

That's why a teen never passed the stick that night, he squashed the beef

At time the logical promise was to just cock and squeeze

I weren't that guy, I was just acting

The pride and the confines of my mind, I was trapped in

Funny how shit work, the way how we grew up

See how the other brother face straight screw up

Now I see my brothers and I see my reflections

Don’t mean not prepared for the worst, that mean I just ain’t expecting

And the fear, and the crave and protecting, the need and direction

I no longer feel the need to mask those aggressions

[Chorus: Selah]

My mind’s changed

It’s part of living this life

So wrong or right

We expand our mind

'Cause my mind’s changed

I don’t know what to say

Along the way many wrongs in this place

'Cause my mind’s changed

The things were better before

I ain’t sure that they matter anymore

'Cause my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed, my mind’s changed

[Verse 2:]

In my mind I would die for the things I believe

One of the mind’s greatest powers is how it deceives

And you beliefs, is silent

Tell your people dialogue

Still you got to maintain conviction and never trying to stop

And I do not, know

No can I tell u surely

Surely, that pure speculation

That’s not put before me

But what the mind conceives

I strive to achieve

It’s cliche

As the phrase say, I believe it’s true indeed

Believe is powerful

The image of christ

Got half the entire planet believing that the saviour is white

And skin bleaching and such other sickness

Must be understood within us

Mind’s more evaded by

Multi purposed layered image

Ye many different mind’s resort the same

That we share a power switch

Soon cut this cord

Disconnect from our minds

Ye I called thind mind mine

The one, know nothing is in

Can’t define it much

Cause find it doesn’t reside in my brain

[Chorus: Selah]

My mind’s changed

It’s part of living this life

So wrong or right

We expand our mind

'Cause my mind’s changed

I don’t know what to say

Along the way many wrongs in this place

'Cause my mind’s changed

The things were better before

I ain’t sure that they matter anymore

'Cause my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed, my mind’s changed

[Verse 3: Akala]

In my mind is a nation of it’s own that I don’t condone

Much less control, the occupy the form

But know that I’m the servant, more like an observer

Powerless to stop myself witnessing the murder

It’s a curve and I’m recurving in, nothing's ever certain

'Cause the storytellers freestyling,  making up the wording

And as it goes along just to throw me off so I don’t know the plot

Even though I am on screen, take the credits from new open shops

And that may sound cryptic but I ain’t got a clue

How to explain to you the things that we go through

I know that you feel it too, you know more control than I

As a child, I swore they'd find a cure so I wouldn’t die

Same little child that you could call a loner

Alone, thinking with discipline is 20 years old

Yeah, I gone back but can't sit in quiet minutes

The chapter on my mind is why i produce

It’s an overload, it’s in the coded code

We know it’s on the only show

On the road

Been told, ever since it hit Rome

Never showing them the cause of the flow

That a force to change the course so we reaping and sewing

See the mind is the reason why we fooled up a lot

And if you troubling someone's loved ones then we fiending for blood

I want to grow up and grow down and go back into the ground

And some of the things produced by the mind might just stick around

[Chorus: Selah]

My mind’s changed

It’s part of living this life

So wrong or right

We expand our mind

'Cause my mind’s changed

I don’t know what to say

Along the way many wrongs in this place

'Cause my mind’s changed

The things were better before

I ain’t sure that they matter anymore

'Cause my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed, my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed

It’s part of living this life

So wrong or right

We expand our mind

'Cause my mind’s changed

I don’t know what to say

Along the way many wrongs in this place

'Cause my mind’s changed

The things were better before

I ain’t sure that they matter anymore

'Cause my mind’s changed

My mind’s changed, my mind’s changed