[chorus] sometimes we open our eyes and can't see / the feeling of our heart, inside, with no beat / open up a window outside, with no breeze / and if you know you're blessed, then what's better to be
open up a window outside, with no breeze / the feeling of a heart, inside, with no beat / sometimes we open our eyes and can't see / and if you know you're blessed, then what's better to be, haaaannh…
if you know you've got it then what's better to give / get ahead on your biz, how's better than if / gotta pass down what we put together to kids / we investing in them, they need better to live / and we got all we need, so all excuses aside it takes a man to provide / who's ready to ride instead of playing pinocchio being nosy and wishing / sometimes we open our eyes with no vision / condemning ourselves, feeling depressed / even if you don't feel it yourself, really you're blessed / it's like we say we're alive but can't breathe / believing lies between the lines but can't read / sometimes we're hearing the message but can't do / complaining as if the solution ain't you / think of eternity, spending it beautifully / and if you're blessed then what's better for you to be
[chorus]
[blaxsmith] now, I've been traveling here for a few years, i can cut the tension with a few shears, had a couple rainy days forecast clear, potholes in the road / it's over now, last year / they say i'm getting too old, they're counting class years / not to mention what i've done these few past years / pay attention, listen, learn to what you have here / negative energy's an enemy like a bad peer / so, why you knock it, judging me by what's in my pocket / you tried to hock it, instead of sticking to the knowledge / this ain't the kind of information that you get from college / this is the art of salvation from when you're paying homage / i'm on the right road, i got a light load / getting heavy in the chevy, climbing heights though / i'm still in fight mode, until it's time to go / control your own and be careful for what you're fighting for.
credits
from SANCT EP,
released May 22, 2012
produced by Reggie Coby
rappin by Bavu and BLAXsmith
mixed and mastered by Josh Brochhausen aka DJ Sae One for Mophonics
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