Read Deep

Know it. Show it.
This light of mine, I glow it!
Star matter - life matter.
My rhymes and patter get phatter and phatter.

Before I burn out, I'll churn out
Tracks that make 'em turn out.
On a quest for the best
I look North, South, East, and West,
In the library - 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor
Then the test - walk out the door

To reality
Mix knowledge with vitality,
Culture, wit, and geniality
Erudition over banality.
If I stutter, sputter, end up in the gutter.
Get so embarrassed I call for my mudder,
Ain't no thing - my words have bling
Elevate, escalate - much in life to anticipate.

Lecture on the street just to draw a crowd.
My words have power and my voice is loud.
Human rights and motivation
Rise up strong and restore this nation.
Who would listen? Who would care?
Their minds on money, guns and underwear.
Curiosity sated, lulled and sedated,
People think genius is to be hated.

They cruise through life.
Their choices are sound.
Why would they want to keep looking around?
Improvement - a delusion
Peace - an illusion
Violence - a contusion
Amusement is their solution.
A piece of cake sitting on a plate -
Who will take that soft sweet bait?
To easy street - ease your mind?
All you've done is waste your time.
Looking for love?
Find yourself first.
Discover your mission here on Earth.
Heaven sent - Earthly born -
Perfect logic, human, warm.

Our collective objective is highly selective,
Excluding the views we cannot use.
Pay your dues, but don't refuse
To listen to opinions lit like a fuse.

I pry style from form and function
Abstract, reintegrate, generate a new junction
Decontextualize, rematerialize
Break it down, build it up, watch my rhymes rise:

Small axes and saws put their lives to a cause
Truth is raw within the law
Not some jabber in your jaw.
I refrain to explain
You can't get their with your brain.
Know it! Show it! This light of mine, I glow it!
People say they're good enough.
They stay away from better stuff.
Take the time to dedicate,
And boredom you'll eradicate.

Read deep - travel
Read deep - unravel
Read deep - wonder
Read deep - come out from under.

Breathe in - out.
Breathe in - out.
Breathe in - out.
Now, everybody, shout!

Write it - scripted me.
Write it - I hear and I see.
Write it - I gotta be free.
Safety first, now!

[dance sequence]

Heroes bring out the best in us.
Losers bring out the rest in us.
Throw down - on the paper.
Bring it, 'til you can't do no more.

You're brilliant. You're brilliant.
You're strong, yet supple - resilient.
Pain can't haunt me
I conquered it gallantly.
I put the past in the past.
It doesn't taunt me.