Extended Control verse (performed in Miami)

[Verse 1: Jay Electronica]

Entirely off the record

The messiahs of society quietly walk with lepers

But when they plugged into the matrix

The babies have dreams of making love on a spaceship

You can hear atheist cries in the sub when the bass hit

My grandmother died last year and although i cried a lot

I thought about my sins and

The demons of my past and

The skeletons i hide and all the things I lied about

And every line of coke and pub I sat and emptied bottles out

Tell me what's it all for

Coming down the next morning groveling on all fours

It takes place in transit

The story of Oz we know, takes place in Kansas

But when the picture's in black and white, we take things for granted

Signs on the highway, a stranger on the train

That tiny voice inside your stomach begging you to change

We on a non-stop voyage through space and time

I fall on my knees and pray to heaven that i stay sublime

Pigs look me up and down with a frown

Is it because I'm brown or is it because I'm from uptown

My life story is etched in the bricks of the projects

I'm everywhere but never expected like disc-shaped objects

Aliens will never get it

Those that's in the know say I'm the greatest to ever spit it

But that's arguable, any y'all keep arguing

I 'Fee Fi Foe' with the flow they all keep gargling

All the way to Parliament

You could check my name on the books

I Earth Wind & Fire’d the verse, then rained on the hook

The legend of Dorothy Flowers proclaimed from the roof

The tale of a magnificent king who came from the nooks

From the wild magnolia, mother of many soldiers

We live by every single word she ever told us

Watch over your shoulders

And keep a tin of beans for when the weather turns the coldest

The Lord is our shepherd, so our cup runneth over

Put your trust in the Lord but tether your Chevy Nova

I’m spitting this shit for closure

And God is my witness, so you could get it from Hova

To all you magicians that’s fidgeting with the cobra

I’m solid as a rock, ‘cause I came from a rock

That’s why I came with the rock, then signed my name on the Roc

Draw a line around some Earth, then put my name on the plot

Cause I endured a lot of pain for everything that I got

The eyelashes like umbrellas when it rains from the heart

And the tissue is like an angel kissing you in the dark

You go from blind sight to hindsight, passion of the Christ

Right, to basking in the limelight, it take time to get your mind right

Jay Electricity, PBS Mysteries

In a lofty place, tangling with Satan over history

You can’t say shit to me, الحمد لله‎

It’s strictly by faith that we made it this far