The Ancient

[Verse 1]

I be around brothers

Don't be around books enough to judge 'em by the covers

They been around cliques enough to judge 'em by the colors

My inner circle, circling right above us are the buzzards

Game is just a show, a game show, look at all the buzzers

On either side of the great divide, what's gonna become of, us

False idols pop, something for the clobbers

The rest just need a title shot, something for the Clubbers

Half these cats are spreading love, but they feeling hunger

Other half are feeling numb, but they're doing numbers

But how can they not feel like herbs saying "word to mother"

Then saying a bunch of words that they'd never say to mother

I'm something like a sweeping tide quaking from asunder

I'm something like a sleeping giant waking from a slumber

It ain't like 'cause I know the ledge I'm talking down to others

It's more like I'm out on the ledge talking down the jumpers

If there ain't no God then how you nourished?

But if you believe in God then why you nervous?

That's word, it's obvious you better work on your endurance

If you got trouble working under duress

For all the world to see, don't get swept up with being current

All the world's a sea, don't get swept up in the current

Conjuring depictions based on fiction takes no courage

If that's your affliction better figure how to cure it

You could stay up on your little piggies or be a hermit

Either way, watch out for the piggies like you Kermit

That's easier said than done atop the Mount that's Vernon

Finding solid footing up atop a mountain of vermin

Native Louisianans might be lost in a bottle of bourbon

Visitors to Louisiana might be lost while out on Bourban

Newark cats take chances out on Chancellor and Bergen

Every country, every county, every borough got a burden

For certain

When you are blinded it is difficult to seek

It's difficult to dream when it is difficult to sleep

Anyplace that's worth going will be difficult to reach

That's difficult to learn, even more difficult to teach

That's why so many characters get caught up in between

There's way too many characters to put it in a tweet

In days of old kids understood the concept of a team

Before they were done sucking on the teet

But nowadays it's suckers always sucking on they teeth

Does any village wanna raise a child?

No, everybody's smoking

Sometimes I feel like Smokey crying the tears of a clown

Enough to form a cloud

If only I could put you in my shoes to walk a mile

I'll break you out your lust for ka

Ka-ching and ka-pow

There's no concern for Tao Te Ching

Also known as the Dao

Your peoples are down and out

Don't drown 'em out cause you up in the Dow