Nights of the Roundtable (first draft skeleton)

[Intro: Jay-Z and Winston Churchill]
I think that, you know, for the most part, that was that old way of thinking. That old guard, that this music is here, this music is here. If we take away all the titles of music you take away that this is rock and roll, this is country, this is blues, this is jazz, and we strip it down--it's just the same thing. You know, at its core, it's just about human emotion, you know, it's about passion, it's about pain, it's about fear, it's about aspiration. You know we're all basically the same

Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few

[Verse 1: Jay Electronica]
It took a lifetime to learn how to live
Another lifetime to learn how to give
It took 34 trips around the hot sun to land me here
That's why every ear that hears understand me clear
I'm not a rapper, I'm like an angel on the mountaintop
The healing power of God is felt in every fountain drop
(murmuring)

[Chorus: Jay Electronica]
I was not myself last night
In the morning light, I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing

[Bridge: Jay Electronica]
Our father, take these wings
Show me a star that will make me sing
Change lives like Kanye, JAY-Z, André
We can get fly and be free by Monday

[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
(murmuring)
My grandmother paid dues in the church
For years I paid dues in the dirt
(murmuring)
I cried many tears, I had many fears
I didn't have many peers
(murmuring)

[Chorus: Jay Electronica]
I was not myself last night
In the morning light, I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor, staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing

[Outro: Jay Electronica]
Uh-huh, uh
Keep it moving
Uh, gotta keep it moving
Uh, I keep it-
Uh, I keep it-
Uh-uh, uh