Breezeway Ritual - Open Mike Eagle.mp3

[00:08.922]Ghetto in the way I drink
[00:10.282]Uncle, uncle, my ship sank
[00:13.193]Ghetto in the way I think
[00:14.589]Hide my troubles, my shit don't stink
[00:17.389]Ghetto in the way I move
[00:18.984]Watch me groove, I'ma sing my blues
[00:21.579]Ghetto in the way I talk
[00:25.637]My auntie still give God the glory
[00:27.737]Shot by the book depository
[00:29.913]Never heard one of grandfather's stories
[00:32.140]Permanent sadness, constant mourning
[00:34.312]22 grandkids, one apartment
[00:36.435]Turn the stove on 'cause we done with darkness
[00:38.623]Social workers don't want sons with fathers
[00:40.664]When they visit, people bite they tongue the hardest
[00:43.016]Magnet programs, baccalaureate
[00:45.214]Illinois, Texas, Californian
[00:47.384]Half a hand drum, half accordion
[00:49.671]Eagle, phoenix, dragon, scorpion
[00:51.794]Native American, Merovingian
[00:53.825]Made of black bones and a rare obsidian
[00:56.178]10 feet tall, not scared of any men
[01:00.609]Might blow up but will not go flat
[01:03.660]They do not know jack
[01:04.795]They try to ask the kettle why the pot so black
[01:06.997]Maybe little in the middle but I got yo back
[01:18.038]Secret buried in America
[01:20.312]Wrote it all down just to tear it up
[01:22.222]What if there's a god but it's scared of us?
[01:24.443]What if there's a god but it's scared of us?
[01:27.591]So they pairing up
[01:29.296]They just sit there and stare at us
[01:30.941]What if there's a god but they scared of us?
[01:33.199]What if there's a god but they scared of us?
[01:35.340]My mama’s nose, my daddy's eyes
[01:37.513]Accent that I don't recognize
[01:39.627]I'm extra fly, I'm extra big
[01:41.815]And I did everything that I must've did
[01:43.899]And I'm just a kid, and I'm hella old
[01:46.036]I collect my blood in a Jello mold
[01:48.264]And forever fold to the nth dimension
[01:50.539]Too cool, too cool in school suspension
[01:52.819]Late for work 'cause I stayed awake
[01:54.790]I didn't go to church but they made a plate
[01:56.920]We don't say a word when they debate
[01:59.098]Or whether God exists
[02:00.134]Or whether Masons pray to an obelisk
[02:02.439]'Cause I got the gist
[02:03.520]The unlocked abyss of where the knowledge is
[02:05.827]I seen the angles, how they complement
[02:07.826]Subatomic particles do not commit, come on
[02:10.865]Ghetto in the way I drink
[02:12.404]Uncle, uncle, my ship sank
[02:15.345]Ghetto in the way I think
[02:16.802]Hide my troubles my shit don't stink
[02:19.721]Ghetto in the way I talk