EIGHTY

i remember my first glimpse
of a face
i saw you smile and i smiled
i was straight blown away
mesmerized
by your beauty from your feet to your hands
how can one be so beautiful?
i don't understand
heaven sent God's gift
without a doubt in my mind.
sometimes i wonder why paths decided to collide.
we started off as perfect strangers
boy meets girl
infatuation to love
now you're my whole entire world.
destiny
taps me on back saying "hello"
but really it was your touch
now i never wanna let you go
then you spoke
i never heard a voice so sweet
heavenly
and from her words
man, i knew this girl was deep
just like me.
with times to worry
and times to play
we'll sit and stress over life
or just burn the day away.
i know for sure in our past lives
we had to be friends.
living and dying together
knowing when we would meet again.
its just a blessing
to have have you in my life
i was destined to be with you
my privilege
so amazing
no question
and i'm knowing
soon enough we'll get where we're going
just thinking about it i can feel my heart growing.
am i trippin'?
or is it that i finally see?
i don't know but my heart's saying you're the one for me.
please believe me.
i'm exactly where i want to be.
this rhyme is written from my heart to you
sincerely.

"no reason to live without you"

so i ask
"what would i be without you?"
like stevie without wonder
hungry without food
a sheep without a shepherd
asleep without your message
and despite the skeptics
in the end you were true
and i knew there was more to life
and i grew living for the light
i took my answers
combined them with yours
it made life exciting
but it closed some doors
word to Christ
my life accelerated then deflated
sunk to bottom them elevated til i made it
but you always had my back though
when kids throw rocks at me
or on stage rappin
still, i see kids without love
it brings tears to my soul
why they always drop up
the world's gone bonkers
you've conquered fear
and as long as i believe
you're the reason i'm here

SEVENTY-NINE

ONE.

shit like this bothers me.
mainstream sucks ass.
i've said it before
and i'll say it again
forever and ever until it stops
because people are shallow
and stupid.

die hard fans.
we lived with their music.
loved it when it was still young
and fresh
straight from the source.
no tampering.
when it still had meaning
and was full of hope.

signing on contracts
enlarging the audience pool
it made money.
but lost the rest.

i admire them for that.
the first real group
that was so down to earth.
they thought about the music
and the process
about the life.
and ended everything they had worked for
started anew.
brought it all back to the beginning.

and yet
all people can remember?
the songs that were made to generate buzz.
no doubt the catchiest
swankiest
most marketed songs.
those were only there to gain attention.

nothing like that on Map the Soul.
no single hyper-techno song.
no extreme modifications.

just the sweet intentions behind the magic of the lyrics.



it seriously is love.



and i'd do it all over again.