Protocol

[Verse 1: Black Thought]

Yo, I'm from another planet, though currently, I'm stranded

Here where I see people clearly takin' every day for granted

Where every time I lift my ship up off the ground, it's landed

To my disadvantage, though maybe I am but a gambit

And held to another standard, if I'm completely candid

I fell in love with the language like a hopeless romantic

I display the dynamics at play and pray it's organic

This has been my reality, maybe I'm schizophrenic

Maybe I'm just a candidate havin' his chip implanted

Maybe this is a fantasy, maybe I'm disenchanted

What if they just abandon me? Maybe it's how they planned it

Crazy there's still a scar on my shoulder where I was branded

The protocol is overhaul, I am not a know-it-all

But I need more than motor oil, signage on a broken door

Said sayonara, au revoir, I'm already spoken for

Focusing on finally doin' somethin' on my own accord

[Chorus: Son Little]

These trees know me

At ease, I'll forever be

My soul, you could not keep

You probably don't know how to read

These gifts know trees know me

At ease, I'll forever be

My soul, you could not keep

You probably don't know how to read

These gifts, they're part of me

[Verse 2: Black Thought]

Calling Orson, come in, Orson, they must be blind as fortune

To make such major offers and give just a minor portion

Then die, one of the corpses inside a designer coffin

We find on Philly's Northside that Susquehanna–Dauphin

Sometimes they try to soften the blow, but it's not as often

This life'll have you starvin' and sufferin' from heat exhaustion

Upon the line, I teeter, it's harder for me to cross it

Unless the universe take a hold of my hand and force it

The protocol is overhaul, show me what you zonin' on

How you gon' get in touch with your spirit when its phone is off?

How they back you into a corner, then hold that over y'all?

Then expect me to show this love that wasn't shown to y'all?

Signage on the closin' doors said, "This ain't even home to y'all"

Now I see that more and more, so sayonara, au revoir

Just get me to that pyramid my flyin' saucer floatin' towards

I'm laser focusin' on doin' somethin' on my own accord

[Chorus: Son Little]

These trees know me

At ease, I'll forever be

My soul, you could not keep

You probably don't know how to read

These gifts know trees know me

At ease, I'll forever be

My soul, you could not keep

You probably don't know how to read

These gifts, they're part of me