This is for You (Original Version)

[Intro: Bliss]
Yo people always come up to and like
"man I want some personal shit, I wanna hear about you, where you from where you've been"
So I say

[Verse 1: Bliss]
I sprouted in the spring of '80 sailed the seas for
A third world home shipwrecked in Indonesia
Drifted to Virginia got the cargo like an historian
Takin' it back without Donnie Darko in the Delorian
Learned beatboxing mimicing PGC
You remember The Titans but I never did CTC
Just public elementary the PTA called a stray noise
NWA tapes hidden under the bed before playboys
'92 went down under I'm like ET
Cause no one spoke this language except some dude in the P.E
See we found a bond or just an excuse to cuss lots
But you're damn right the only two dudes rapping at the bus stop
And even though we fronted we still grew to what was right
Using a busted boombox and half a headphone as a mic
We all got different roots
And we all blossom differently
I'm proud now a conductor of my own goddamn symphony

[Hook: Bliss] {X2}
Cause this is for you you're the reason I wrote this
You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet
Oh it's just another taste from the bottle
Oh it's Bliss n Eso's page from the novel

[Verse 2: Bliss]
And through this music I can see complete views
Of who I am where I stand my feet feel sweet dude
But I never grew up on Sugar Hill man the stage is Earth
So fuck taking my history as a fact to the gauge my worth
We birth, I polinated
Growing flowers in the pavement to renew the fallen faded
Feel this essence I'm calling waited through the faces of solemn shaded
But no one can find it it's my precious like Gollum stated
I'm lost with my Walkman switched to poor tracks
Bewildered so I predict the forecast
I see gold and yellow browns fall upon the asphalt
I drive a street sweeper like a bee keeper protecting his last folds
That contains the essence I found (I was a kid)
It's the youth that be blessin' the sound
Kids with funny chuckles honey suckle huckle berry and nectar
Plain strain stain games sword children sectors
And it's the same spark within the childs fusebox
That lights the way and my crew flocks
See sticks and stones will never trip these clones
So we just knit these poems to clothe fit these homes of the needy
Indeliable grafitti soaks in
That gets buffed the next day no emotions invoked in
If you're thirsty there's a well just where you live
But come with an open mind bring a cup and not a shiv

[Hook: Bliss]
Cause this for you you're the reason I wrote this
You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet
Oh it's just another taste from the bottle
Oh it's just another page from the novel

This is for you you're the reason I wrote this
You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet
Oh it's just another taste from the bottle
Oh it's Bliss n Eso's page from the novel

[Verse 3: Eso]
You see the meaning of life is like that book you read
Where the chapter is missing
While the future is our's to manifest as we wish
But you can't change the past cause the apple's been bitten
You see in January I awoke to a bed full of roses
And February wouldn't exist without her closeness
Suppose it's just March's way on how to start the day
Let my soul spill and fill half the lake
Her harmony's the only thing that can make me behave
Hoping next month grows wings and takes me away
If you could only see me dancing on my notepad
Oblvious to the things I don't have
Cause music is everywhere, music is life
To the rythmn of the tap drip music is mine
Music is your's, and you can feel it on tours
From trains to bus rides, down south to up north
May the force be with you, see this grew three fistfulls
A poetry with power
Life I know it's in the flowers it's magic where my mind is on orbit
From here to the end of the year through July and August
See as a youngin' hip hop made me want the world's riches
It even had me out there calling girls bitches (bitch!)
But when I found my sign as a mountain goat
Alone in my zone I built a house of hope
To sustain the weather in September have some leverage for November
And the note I gave December when I met her
From invisible cloaks to crossbows and catapults
To questions and answers to the problems that we haven't solved
I sit and dwell and soak up nearly half the curb
With a bottle for tomorrow as I laugh and burp
That's me on the top of hill with a heart of dirt
On a high in the sky like the stars and birds

[Hook: Bliss and Eso] {X2}

This is for you you're the reason I wrote this
You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet
Oh it's just another taste from the bottle
And I hope this feeling stays 'til tomorrow