Upstairs

[Verse 1: Rakaa]

Yeah

I seemed to drive you crazy, memories are hazy

Physcians sling prescriptions cause they're greedy and they're lazy

Now our roles switched, heart breaking as it is

We both miss who we were, frustrated how we live

I admit at times, I can't help but feel ashamed

For the fury and the tone of the truth I spit in flames

Venting in infernal fires, hard to keep contained

You brought lights into the world, out the ash the phoenix came

Love that came from war, change your language and your name

Then came the disrespect of your brain and your frame

A outsider, living in a land so strange

But I know for a fact you have the strength to beat the pain

Whispered you were sorry, I found you that way

How far away the siren sounded that day

Violence in my chest, pulse banging in my ears

Percussion of the Calvary, running up the stairs

Confused you with every question

They looked at you with judgement, like maybe she learned her lesson

Then the oxygen mask, then the field testing

All of us were on our knees but I was praying for a blessing

They asked for your language and name

Then came the disrespect of your brain and your frame

Didn't even try to hide contempt, with no concern

They snatched you off the carpet, then strapped you to the gurney

Scared, embarrassed, then mad

Please be careful, YO BE CAUTIOUS

Of Fairfax traffic, block to Pico

I floated back upstairs, feeling nauseous

Thinking back to the farm where demons can never follow

O'ahu near Honolulu, Bawa manalo

Amai iki but really Aloha and mahalo

Nuiloa ukuloa, I could inherit some of your sorrow

I can't sleep either

Dreams too extreme

Eye lids, eyes closed, IMAX movie screen

If I did drift off, my body would do this thing

Where I'd get stuck with my mind away but couldn't move a screen

Stream of consciousness running through the L.A. Zoo

I also understood more about you then you knew

After decades, a part of you were still a child confused

That barely made it out a makeshift home and so without her shoes

You saw a party turn into a riot for my crew

And smiled when the crowd went wild for Babu

Pride was in your eyes but really I was proud of you

When you made it upstairs, center table, House of Blues

From the Far East to South Central, California

To the castle off of Crenshaw by the palm trees on Victoria

Darkness to the dawn more chapters to the story

You're a blessing, not a burden

I love you

Cause you're a warrior