Saul Williams - Twice The First Time Lyrics

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I will not rhyme on tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to do that way back

I will not rhyme over tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to do that way back

Don't drop the beat on me

Don't drop the beat no

I am not the son of Sha klak klak

I am before that I am before

I am before before before death is eternity

After death is eternity

There is no death there's only eternity

And I be riding on the wings of eternity like

Cla cla cla Sha klack klack

Get me the fuck off this track

As if the heartbeat wasn't enough

They got us using drum machines now

The hums of the machines

Tryin' to make our drums humdrums

Tryin' to [Incomprehensible] our magic

Instruments be political prisoners up inside computers

As if the heart were not enough

As if the heart were not enough

And as heartbeats bring percussions

Fallen trees bring reprocussions

City's play upon our souls like broken drums

Redrum the essence of creation from city slums

But city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrums

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'Cuz city slums have never been where our drums are from

Just the place where our daughters and sons become

Offbeat heartbeats slaves to city streets

And hearts get broken and heartbeats stop

Broken heartbeats become breakbeats

For niggas to rhyme on top but

I won't rhyme on top no tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to do that way back

I won't rhyme over tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to do that way back

Don't drop the beat no

Don't drop the beat no

Not until you've listened to Rakim on a rocky mountain top

Have you heard hip hop?

Extract the urban element that created it

And let a open wide country side illustrate it

Riding in a freight train in the freezing rain

Listening to Coltrane my reality went insane

And I think I saw Jesus

He was playing hopscotch with Betty Carter

Who was cursing him out

In a scat-like gibberish for not saying 'Butterfingers'

And my fingers run through grains of sand

Like seeds of time the pains of man the frames of mind

Which built these frames

Which is the structure of my urban super-structure

The trains and planes can corrupt

And obstruct your planes of thought

So that you forget how to walk through the woods

Which ain't good 'cuz you ain't never walked through the trees

Listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop

And you must stop that damn track from going

Please don't drop the beat don't drop the beat no

And I will not rhyme on tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to that way back

I will not rhyme on tracks

Niggas on a chain gang used to that way back

Don't drop the beat no don't drop the beat no

Don't drop the beat heartbeat my heartbeat

Goes on and on and on yeah

Yeah yeah yeah

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