This is a deep song on many levels. DUCKWRTH’s message is one that promotes good parenting, being role-models for the youth, and anti-drug abuse.
But it’s the design/construction of the song that really displays his attention to detail, cleverness, and education. The song is littered with double en...
[Hook]
Everything above is the same down below
Big bang the universe remains to grow
Sun shows and the flowers starts to grow
Everything above is the same down below
Uh, yeah, it's the same down below
Big bang the universe remains to grow
Sun shows and the flowers starts to grow
Everything above is the same
[Verse 1]
Check it out
Kickin' it with Jonah in the belly of the beast
And feast in the black hole eating Ki-sha
Told me we should meet around 3
And bring your own beef like it was B-Y-O-B
But I refuse to beef like a V-E-G-A
End of that act we make enough from all the he say
She say callin' all your aunties on the three way
Lookin' for the safest place for the land to give her leeway
But sometimes on that battleship she just get to battlin'
Even challenging the Vatican at who's the holiest
I'm hopin' it
Everyday is church me and my holy men
Sippin' holy water breakin' bread hope for sodium
Cause we don't like a salty situation on the podium
Catch an upper cut like the holy ghost (left hook, right hook, blau)
Think you're home alone blow a holy smoke
Mama catch you smack you in the face like Macaulay Culk
She don't like you smokin' but at least it ain't Macaulay Coke
Booger sugar got em harlem sugar bakin' soda cookin' lookin'
To forget the dark place that their father took em'
Or the lack thereof
Cause if there ain't no sun there ain't no summertime fun
But replace the super soaker with that handheld gun
Replace that backyard pool with a pool of blood in your backyard
Heart beats is just a pace of fast you on that NASCAR
Start to moving in that light speed likely you may end up on Jupiter
Find your wifey your old bitch starts to maneuver her
The next thing you know she Mr. Moon
The next thing you know she birth the stars
Don't let that past rotation affect your presentation
Too much anti-matter results in annihilation
We're just some some ? looking for some annihilate then
So we can love in basketball jumpshot, no fader
[Hook]
Everything above is the same down below
Big bang the universe remains to grow
Sun shows and the flowers starts to grow
Everything above is the same down below
Uh, yeah, it's the same down below
Big bang the universe remains to grow
Sun shows and the flowers starts to grow
Everything above is the same
[Verse 2]
Now I told you that these thoughts are moving light speed
I time travel every time I look at old pics
I'm counting all the minutes on my timepiece
12, 3, 6, 9 (x2)
I'm trying to fit within time
Within time I fit fine
Until then I buddha shrine
Fat head with uber rhymes
With more lines in the I Ching and an inkling of hope
For generations next that we are teaching
Wait, what the fuck is it we teaching?
Fast food, thoughts of places on turn cuisining
Beni Hana chopper screwed
Let me slow it down and show you skinny mama raisin' 2
Babies with no poppy too
Teach em how to build a foundation' like he's supposed to do
What does it feel when someone avoiding you
(Tick tock, damn, damn, damn, damn)
Now imagine that same thing in the adolescents youth
The absence of a sun can stunt the growth of a tulip
And false promises that exit out your two lips
It's better to say nothing than try to make the truth twist
Moral of the story it takes two to birth a child
Mother staying or because it's you that nurtures child
Father keep rotation cause it's you that disciplines
Balance makes the strongest structure that withstands the illest wind
And if the wind of time can blow me back to simple times
I swear I'll save it be quarter, nickle penny dime
And by night I'll be a quarter millionaire a fine
And then I'll buy a time machine and take me back (way back)
To the day that James Brown wrote that proud is black (way back, run it back)
A time machine to take me back (way back)
To a day that black folk don't smoke no crack (run it back)
I'll buy a time machine to take me back (way back)
I'll buy a time machine to take me back (back, back...)
[Outro Sample]