Butterfly

[Intro - Talib Kweli]

Yeah. You know. Make it work

Summer rain is like my ad-lips???

???

Right Chris?

(sound like)

Extra precautions when they not needed

We do it like this like...

I'm still awake... in the middle of the night

Try to lay it down, try to close my eyes

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

At night I can't sleep

Cause my heart skip a beat

I can see it cause my heart on my sleeve

I can see the deceased

Tear into the flesh of the weak

Currency bear the mark of the beast

Never stand for the bull

Even when the market asleep

Anything I want is in arms reach

And the score is so sweet

But the consequence is that

I got to wear the mark of the thief

I am the man with one hand

Stranger in a foreign land

New identity cost a grand

It's the miracle worker

Serving up the offering

So make the disabled walk again

Got the melatonin, pouring in from the pineal gland

Like the blind man that saw again

Like el-Hajj Malik

Street cats fought for him

And they never ate pork again

Bear witness to the

[Hook]

Power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

Make it clap like they're giving you a standing ovation

The adulation is such a powerful high

And as sour as my transportation

When I am heading for the clouds in the sky

Stay clean as the department of sanitation

Even though we from the gutter right

That's the power of transformation

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn (x3)

At night I can't sleep

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

At night I can't sleep

Cause my heart skip a beat

I can see it cause my heart on my sleeve

I can see the deceased

Tear into the flesh of the weak

Currency bear the mark of the beast

Never stand for the bull

Even when the market asleep

Anything I want is in arms reach

And the score is so sweet

But the consequence is that

I got to wear the mark of the thief

I am the man with one hand

Stranger in a foreign land

New identity cost a grand

It's the miracle worker

Serving up the offering

So make the disabled walk again

Got the melatonin, pouring in from the pineal gland

Like the blind man that saw again

Like el-Hajj Malik

Street cats fought for him

And they never ate pork again

Bear witness to the

[Hook]

Power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

That's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

It's the power of transformation

Make it clap like they're giving you a standing ovation

The adulation is such a powerful high

And as sour as my transportation

When I am heading for the clouds in the sky

Stay clean as the department of sanitation

Even though we from the gutter right

That's the power of transformation

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

Caterpillar to the butterfly

At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn (x3)

At night I can't sleep

[Outro: Talib Kweli and Steffanie Christian]

Change is God

Survival requires transformation

No one said it would be easy

But ain't nothing worth having, easy to get

So run towards the challenge

I love the challenge

Every challenge is a new opportunity

Of self-transformation

So run towards the challenge

I run towards the challenge

I run towards the challenge

I run towards the challenge

(fade)