Proof of Life

Yeah Learnt the dos and the don't dos Thrown into the deep end With a heavy heart and some stone shoes Yeah, that's why every word in the poem moves Mmh, and I'm fairly bred for the throne Proved it every rhyme Preaching the gospel Deep in her soul Loving her good Keep an apostle or two Reach for the right hand of thee almighty when giving me dap Fake niggaz get the left Snakes slither with the rest, blessed It's written in stone Long as I wield the pen well Mightier than the sword lord On it all depends Flawed, the will to fend for better still And build a fence for the things I love Trying to protect mine with all the wings above Moving with the light (Moving with the light) Moving with the light (I pray we moving with the light) Trapping on the right (My nigga trapping on the right) Grooving with the night (Grooving with the night) Got it out the mud (Got it out the mud) Moving with the light above me Devil got two left feet And the fighters love me Footwork Muhammad Ali Stay afloat butterfly Stick and move young man Stick and move I give you my heart You pick it apart I get it together I got to move I got shit to accomplish I got piff, do the Don kiss If the product this, who the monster? Look what the world made Need a proper fix for the conscience Poppa didn't see his son shine Cause of dark clouds he couldn't conquer Another black man took an L to a white one like he Papa Doc Who gon' cop a pot for the piss poor? Shop the block for the 5th floor folk hanging on by a thread? So I stop and jot what I need to Treat my soul like it feeds you Through its eyes I proceed to perceive you Preach the love and I keep the pen what I bleed through To the water I can lead you Through the slaughter of the people Where they force you to drink the Kool-Aid Through the orders of the evil, lethal Moving with the light (Moving with the light) Moving with the light (I pray we moving with the light) Trapping on the right (My nigga trapping on the right) Grooving with the night (Grooving with the night) Got it out the mud (Got it out the mud) Moving with the light above me Devil got two left feet And the fighters love me Footwork Muhammad Ali Stay afloat butterfly Stick and move young man Stick and move