Woke Up in a Melody

Chicago’s golden slam poet is back in motion
Knocking speakers in the house like Nancy Pelosi
I’ve been floating in the potion of blackest roses
In between micro dosing and keeping it sober
Stay modest in the face of the greediest posers
Trynna coat the kids’ walls with CD’s and posters
City bleeding and I’m fiending to seam it with culture
I’m the big brother baby the family closer
I was born with the form of the rock of Gibraltar
Can’t contain all the pain Chicago’ll Hulk ya
Too much fiction in the picture from Johnny Travolta’s
Need a refund for the reruns that they sold ya
I’m the high to the mid that they lowed ya
I dance salsa while I listen to Sosa
Be ya self even when you not supposed to
And fuck em if they wining like mimosa

I woke up in a melody
Free don’t leave
I woke up in a melody
Free don’t leave
I don’t know what’s happening on the other side
I cannot waste no day no way running out of time
The sky turns grey and the sun still rains on me
Had to meditate let the melody sang through me

I been training like Bruce Wayne when Bane broke his back
Same city Saba, Mick, and Chano learned to rap
Where they glorify, gentrify, justify homicide
Sitting in my living room deciding if I live or die
Staring at a picket white fence
Damn Gina bought a Beamer and a Benz
Talked to this oracle he gave me 2 cents
He said why you think they call it Aber(crime)bie and Fitch
They wouldn’t save yo ass if you was lying in a ditch
And you spent your last dollar and you sold ya last kid
It’s just the biz
I don’t take it personal
I don’t really got no money
All I got is words for you
Stuck between a rock
And being what you want me to
Pressure on my follicles
I might move my longitude
It’s peachy till they auction you
Or offer you no offer that ain’t awful or
A coffin that’ll cost you like two of you

I woke up in a melody
Free don’t leave
I woke up in a melody
Free don’t leave
I don’t know what’s happening on the other side
I cannot waste no day no way running out of time
The sky turns grey and the sun still rains on me
Had to meditate let the melody sang through me