Tao of Tao

another rap about philosophy, religion and society. I have more poems and writings i will be posting soon. written to #longlivesteelo instrumental.

INTRO

The beat drop and it’s so damn tranquil

Let’s go for a drive you know I got my tank full (I do, I do)

I know I can be a handful but hold on

While I ask you a question

Lemme jus ask one question

 

CHORUS

Tell me have you ever read the tao

the size of my palm

Smack you between ya eyebrows

Once you know it’s there, it’s only exists in the clouds

You probly not following now

You probly not following now

 

VERSE 1

They say heaven is forever and earth endures

Take a bite of this mandarin it’s all yours

The jews try to explain it, even the moors

The catholics moved too fast to encapture it

see if I stacked all the books up and made a cake

u couldn’t differentiate every single taste

regurgitate all you ate to the masses

You’d be as fresh as if the words went in the waste

Basket tell me does it matter in a golden casket

Throw the first stone and you the first who’s blasphe-mous

Trust when we die the sinners gonna visit us

Walk pass the crack fiends while you walkin to the bus

Slide past dude who want a dollar when you in a rush

Speed past like you ain’t seen dude askin for a ride

get a little freedom everybody got some Jekyll some hyde

apples dipped in cyanide

funny how you see strangers and think danger

one wrong look got you walkin with anger

tell me was jesus really born in a manger

and visited by kings talk to me god

im thinkin out loud

tell me god how

let me ask you something now

 

CHORUS

have you ever read the tao

the size of my palm

Smack you between ya eyebrows

Soon as you know it’s there it only exists in the clouds

You probly not following now

You probly not following now

Tell me if you following now

 

VERSE 2

Stop telling me ya third eye open

Stop tellin me when ya chakras woke and

Stop tellin me that you vegan and you go to yoga class

and how ya new Buddha balance on ya a*s

and when you go to bed you wear ya bantu knots

take pics with ya bindi and ya incense hot

and how you go to hookah bars like every night

but tell me when the last time that you read a book

and did something and aint post it on the book

or took a deep breath and had a second look

at the clouds or the sky and thanked whoever made it wow

im jus thinkin out loud

but I was really wonderin now

can we make a vow the next time I ask you can

tell me

 

OUTRO

Damn I jus read the tao

 was the size of my palm

It hit me between my eyebrows

And everything I thought I know

once I knew

It drifted off to the clouds