Nights of the Roundtable

[Intro: Jay-Z interview]

"I think that, uhh – you know...

For the most part, that was that old way of thinking, in that old guard

That 'this music is here, this music is here' – you know

If we take away all the titles of music

You take away that 'this is Rock & Roll,' 'this is Country,'

'This is Blues,' 'this is Jazz,' and we strip it down – it's just the same thing...

And, you know, at its core, it's just about human emotion

You know, it's about passion, it's about pain...

It's about fear, it's about aspiration, you know, 'cause...

You know, we're all basically the same."

[Sample: Winston Churchill speech]

"Never in the field of human conflict

Was so much owed by so many to so few"

[Verse 1: Jay Electronica]

It took a lifetime to learn how to live

Another lifetime to learn how to give

It took 34 trips around the hot sun to land me here

That's why every ear that hear, understand me clear

I'm not a rapper

I'm like an angel on the mountaintop

The healing power of God is felt in every fountain drop

(Mm-mm... something, something, something...)

{*mumbles*} –– you scared, money

[Chorus: Jay Electronica]

I was not myself last night

In the morning light, I can see the changes showing

(Keep it moving now)

(Uh, uh, keep it going now)

As I lay there on the floor staring at the door with jaded eyes

Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more

I could feel the hunger growing

[Bridge: Jay Electronica]

Our Father, take these wings

Show me a star that'll make me sing

And change lives like Kanye, JAY-Z, André

We can get fly and be free by Monday

[Verse 2: Jay Electronica – reference demo]

My mama paid dues in the church – ha

When it ain't on 'em, they tools in the dirt – ha

{*mumbles*} in the Earth – ah

Uh-uh-ah – Jésus in the church

My grandmother paid dues in the church

And for years, I paid dues in the dirt

Ha, like King --, I --- jewels in the Earth

I cried many tears, I had many fears, I had many fears

Ah, uh... I didn't have many peers

And it {*mumbles*} -- ears

[Chorus: Jay Electronica]

I was not myself last night

In the morning light, I can see the change was showing

(Ha, ha, I keep it going, I keep it moving)

(I keep it moving, I keep it moving now)

(I keep it moving, I gotta keep it moving, ah, ah-ah)

As I lay there on the floor, staring at the door with jaded eyes

Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more

I could feel the hunger growing

[Outro: Jay Electronica]

Uh-huh, I keep it growing, I gotta keep it moving

Uh, I keep it–

Uh, I keep it–

Uh-uh, uh...