[00:38]Hook: Bilal[00:52]Your inner heart, your inner mind[00:55] You’re the star that will always shine[00:58] Forever you’ll be with me[01:03]Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco[01:04]Uh, it go like[01:06]You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul?[01:08]Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes?[01:11]This is balance[01:12]Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge[01:14]Between the solitary and the conference that I examines[01:18]That I imagine was a figure[01:20]Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas[01:24]Like the transubstantiation of liquor[01:25]But that’s just turnin’them into blood[01:27]And we’ll be right back where we was[01:29]Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors[01:32]So I can cut[01:33]Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners[01:37]For advancement of human suffering[01:39]And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials[01:42]That’s gon’ bring it back to us again[01:44]A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s[01:47]Hook: Bilal[01:48]Your inner heart, your inner mind[01:50]You’re the star that will always shine[01:52]Forever you’ll be with me[01:57]Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco[01:57]Shotgun[01:58]Even though independent cars ain’t got one[02:01]I got some and more to spare[02:03]No more despair[02:05]My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate[02:08]Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there[02:11]My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here[02:14]I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit[02:16]Affion on the Drake skit[02:18]Now how many more can I make with just one voice[02:21]They might call it fake shit[02:23]This some deep shit[02:24]It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit[02:27]Vicariously in every rap I speak with[02:30]I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless[02:32]Cause I’mma be you[02:34]Even though you’re not here to be with[02:36]I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers[02:38]Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream[02:40]In a world so Martin Luther King-less[02:43]Hook: Bilal[02:43]Your inner heart, your inner mind[02:45]You’re the star that will always shine[02:47]Forever you’ll be with me[02:53]Your inner heart, your inner mind[02:56]You’re the star that will always shine[02:58]Forever you’ll be with me[03:06]Outro: Lupe Fiasco[03:08]And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott[03:15]In a discourse with Baldwin[03:17]On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’[03:20]But wishin’ it never lands[03:22]Reminiscent of the dream time[03:24]Presently en route to the rise of the machine time[03:28]Magazine times[03:29]With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee[03:32]Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks[03:35]Roads as bumpy as braille books[03:37]Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door[03:42]Gourmet food at the starving soiree[03:44]A choice of one easy woman at a time[03:47]I’ll take three the hard way[03:50]Trying to be as abstract as possible[03:52]And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable[03:55]A baby fed molten gold[03:57]And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls[04:00]How to describe this[04:03]Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence[04:08]Some more technically impressive[04:09]In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic[04:14]Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby[04:18]Might as well not even exist, not even a bit[04:21]In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor[04:25]And to the oppressors, I leave a war[04:28]And so on and so forth