PSALMS 23

[Verse 1]
Gimme the light, I'm Benny shine, boy
I start the show, it a Molotov
My resolve to set it off is why the flame attract a moth
Dealt the fire but it’s real, y'all
Been used to chickens but I'm foie gras
My opposition like [?]
They bitin’ anything I serve
'Cause I'm usin' spoken word
In this manner, [?]
Use the slash or the barrel
Build a barrel big enough to fit a bullet
Pull a trigger, pull a Bob Marley
I won't touch the deputy, but tell the Sheriff "sorry, I ain't sorry"
Tried to harm me
It ain't no time to be cordial
Ain't nobody immortal
Even time gon’ die
If a eye for a eye, it’s gon' be yours before mine
What’s a sign to the blind?
What's a song to the deaf?
Evidence, it was gone, don't mean what's gone really left
I’m in the booth to the neck
I'm in the streets like Jay, walkin' proud as a stray
Like lost his home, like B.E.T phone home
You been out way too long
But I just can't come back until I right these wrongs

[Chorus]
And joy cometh in the morning
Nights feeling like a lifetime
Walked through the valley of the shadow
Singin' songs to the skyline
Like "wake up, don't sleep on me"
Wake up, don't sleep on me
Su-sun, oh golden sun
Please, please, shine down on me

[Verse 2]
This for when it ain't no luck, you gotta build your own
This for right after you wish you died but you stayed alive
When they tried to use your spine for a ladder they could climb
Show these dog-ass niggas, they done picked the wrong bone
Appetit, every bar is a feast when I speak, let 'em eat
But this ain't tongue-in-cheek
We gon' bake the elite
Tell the cabal "suck my balls", I'ma ball without 'em
Like a eunuch moving units in this motherfucker
Tell my youngins practice prudence in this motherfucker
My director the Persian Kubrick in this motherfucker
My lawyer Jewish but it's still free Palestine
My management Louis wigged up in this bitch
It makes sense that I'm Billy Ray Valentine
Shit, we all a little nutty with some inner buddy
Love lasts when you given more than you asked

[Chorus]
But joy cometh in the morning
Nights feeling like a lifetime
Walked through the valley of the shadow
Singin' songs to the skyline
Like "wake up, don't sleep on me"
Wake up, don't sleep on me
Sun, sun, oh golden sun
Please, please, shine down on me
'Cause joy cometh in the morning
Nights feeling like a lifetime
Walked through the valley of the shadow
Singin' songs to the skyline
Like "wake up, don't sleep on me"
Wake up, don't sleep on me
Sun, sun, oh golden sun
Please, please, shine down on me

[Bridge]
I miss the sun, sun
Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me
Ay, Mr. Sun, sun, Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me

[Break]
It's gotta be right, you know
Yup

[Verse 3]
Ay, I been savin' grace
I mean to say I got plenty prayers in my piggy bank
That is to say I invested into my blessings early
I co-create love, y'all just procreate in the hate
What can I say, man, I pen this shit like I'm Billy Shakes
Crushin' all my foes, runnin' through they face like Marshawn
I feel unopposed
My Dad told me I'm destined for more than I imagined
Funny, I already got more than I pictured havin'
My girl say I'm girl crazy, I have to agree
Girl, I'm crazy about you, hope that put you at ease
My best friend told me we are the Lazarus few
So when I die, don't have a wake, I'll be awake in like a day or two
God complex 'cause nigga, God complex
Make the whole church mad, so did Martin Lu-
I went for the buns, stayed for the chicken stew
If you got two in the posse, nothin' you can't do
Ain't no rock and hard place that you can't escape
Ain't no system failsafe
And in the meantime, don't beg for nothing
Not even a pardon
Just rock it like James Harden
Write it like James Baldwin
Talkin' like James Earl Jones
Now your girl caught the love Jones
Billy Paul had warned 'bout your silly broad up at city hall
Makin' vows that she couldn't keep
Now her jaw's all up in my drawers
You in awe that that U-N-I-V-E-R-S-E blessed me
I'm Messi, Gretzky, and Comaneci
On the billboards 'cause the shit that I write is catchy
Same time a dense line might net me the Nobel Prize
It's in me to win it, image is off of my [?]
Young rapper save the world
The catch he lose his mind
Release, the Kraken-size
That's me
The sea is mine
That's why I lead the blind
The pain, I hide behind
That smile, white as some blinds
It's duck season, my nigga, they shootin' from out the blinds
Bla-dow
Bla-dow
Keep my songs in rotation but keep my name out your mouth
Might drop an album and title it "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"
'Cause I'm here, yeah, I'm here
Amen