SOUL

My take on a spoken word piece...inspired by Commons style influenced by clinging to art by the likes of Tupac and Saul Williams...the influence and passion that runs through the viens of individuals like these.

 Please

Give a black man the mic
        I need to hear him sing 
 say there’s more to life 
     than all that's been showing
I need some soul
      some struggle 
                 some real

 

                   I know you feel

we will never heal
till we love who we are
the pain the scars
make it worth the cost 
tell me

what you’ve lost
share your soul with me
and maybe we can be
       free

Together
we can whether

any storm
I'll keep you strong
you'll keep me warm
I know what it’s like behind
the eyes of a struggling kind
the trials of an innocent
time

when choices were made
before we had a say
and now the games they play
make us think
make us pray 
               they turn their heads 
                     they can’t see 
                        hypnotized

                        by lust and greed 
               we still sleep

        on the same concrete 
           still feel the beat
              of a souls song
written by hands

        that have tolled through time
                    kept down by those, passing by

             unchanged

 chained

       to a notion

       that ahead means

            keep goin'

 

they keep walkin'
 we keep talkin'
hoping to reach em
 teach em 
                how to feel again

It’s hard I know 
got somewhere to go

on a merri go round laced

   confusioun set paced

 a poluted group think tank

 
can’t be consumed by truth
can’t resurrect a youth
who’s grown to big for
his 5 hundred dollar shoes
can’t teach a world to walk like Christ 
                can’t teach em how high the price
is for all these things we want
when desire out shines the meaning
        and greed trumps God
let’s take em back to the streets
       let’s make em eat
the fruit of a culture looked down upon
      a wise civilization of people
God shines down on.

Author's Note

This is a revision of an older piece of mine.
Not too complicated of a melodic structure. I know the rythem but, it is a bit hard to convey in writing.