Closer Encounters

[Verse 1: Jay Electronica]

Flashing lights on a shiny object

I felt three feet tall, like a hobbit

It moved at a speed that my eyes couldn't di-tect

My stomach felt queasy and I couldn't dodge it

No, this ain't logic

Belief in the unseen is hard

Because the seen leaves scars

It dance like the stars

My ears went ring-ring

Incoming message from Supreme Being

Then light provoked my body

I'm drifting off, I'll have a heart attack probably

I'm lifting off, beam me up into the cockpit

Swift and soft, I can't see the pilot

Man, it must be heaven, it feels like heaven

A real bright presence carried me home

Swing low, sweet chariot

I'm married to the throne

I'm carrying my cross with a crown full of thorns

Hosanna Hosanna, 20 miles from Atlanta

Please rain down manna

[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]

They promised not to harm me

A beautiful woman with hair wrapped around her body

Tucked in her garment

Led me to a room with a view for observation

A dark-skinned man told me all about creation

He shed a few tears, said he feared for the nation

I stood in a trance with a feeling of elation

Crying his eyes, this is what he said

"America, America, how great thou art

Oh, why did you have to go and break my heart?"

I couldn't understand, I said "I don't comprehend"

Then we flew to an island off the coast of Japan

He took me by the hand, and showed me things

I got dizzy as the info overloaded my brain

He said, "in 1909, construction began

With the wheel shaped airplane that's built like a planet

A few years before the federal reserve went off the gold standard

The wheel went up

Then the stock market crashed and the seal went up

This is 1929, the deal was up"