Blind Walker G

Dust on my shoes Red clay Bright sun Kids chase the taxis Day just begun Vendor sings soft Smoke from the pans Spices in air Drum in my hands Grandma just laughs Says “Feel where you stand” Pulse in the ground Calling the band That’s the groove of Africa In your heartbeat In your feet From the coast to the savannah Every cousin Every street We don’t learn it We remember Every clap and every chant...

She been cheatin' on me They sayin' it's true I don't know why they tell me What am I supposed to do Can't say I didn't expect it But I'm still upset She don't even try to hide it She don't even care So I'm doin' what I do What I do best And the angels gave up on me So God help the rest She had a devilish smile She was playin' me for a fool I had my blinders on You know how it is when you're young...

Morning again Plastic cup Kitchen sink Little moons in my hand I don’t even stop to think White chalk on my tongue Label says I should feel fine But the hours crawl crooked While the world stays out of line I’m taking pills that never help Tiny storms inside my shelf Doctor’s words in shaky ink But they don’t say what I think I keep on cheating myself On pills that never Never help Blue light Ceil...

There are two sides to every story One's the truth and the other's boring But nobody listens So who cares? Who cares? Lately I'm losin' my patience Because everyone's changin' And everything's fading Fading In a sea of lies It's hard to find Anything that I can call mine A million stars Only one sky Anything that I can call mine In a sea of lies It's hard to find Anything that I can call mine A mi...

What happened to the legends Are they all washed up We never paid attention And now we're stuck We never saw it coming The king's out of luck A lizard took his money Now he's in the dust (Whoa) And the crowd goes (Whoa) The king was a no-show (Whoa) And the crowd goes (Whoa) The king was a no-show His majesty had left his crown In the hands of the court His regal robe of silk and gold Was lying on...

I've got no money to my name And all my friends are broke the same I'm feelin' tired and worn out But I know I got to hang on somehow It's been a long damn week and it's only Tuesday And all this heat's gettin' in my brain So we kick it on the porch with our good friend Jack Hopin' he'll bring us some good luck back And we're all here singin' the trailer park blues And we're hopin' and prayin' we'...

On this little street Every door new spice Grandma’s stew Next door it’s rice Kids trade slang Trade snacks Trade shoes Different flags in the window Same worn roof In my quarter we live with many nations But one groove One move One vibration Different tongues Same laugh Same moon Many nations But one groove (hey!) Corner shop plays songs I never knew I sing along They sing mine too We argue names...

Silhouettes around my bed Voices inside my head Ghosts of all the tears I've shed Telling me that I'm not dead We are children of the moon Waiting for our flowers to bloom Lullabies from ancient tombs Crescendos under falling stars Silhouettes around my bed Voices inside my head Ghosts of all the tears I've shed Telling me that I'm not dead We are children of the moon Waiting for our flowers to bl...

I know you I know you well You could be heaven But you'd rather be hell Don't you miss the things we threw away? Didn't you miss the good old days? Why'd we throw it all away? Don't you miss the things we threw away? All the good you could be If you'd just let yourself see How happy you could be If you'd just let yourself be Don't you miss the things we threw away? Didn't you miss the good old day...

You text your boys like "Yo She bad" Laugh it off Think it's just a tag But that's someone’s daughter Someone’s dream Not a screenshot for your meme She walks in You rate her clothes You don’t ask what she’s chasing Though Every joke that cuts her down Stays on her skin like a bruise you found Hold her name up Don’t drag it down Talk like she’s there when she’s not around Every word you say You’re...

Lines on a map Ink on a page Stories we’re taught Carry our rage Your sky is my sky Same moon that we share Different old prayers But the same thin air All flags in the wind Same breath in our lungs Every border just a line we drew Then called it blood If I hurt you I’m cutting my own tongue ‘Cause underneath the colors we’re the same one Faces in crowds Strangers in trains Different old names Ver...

Why do you all think you're so great Could it be hallucinations Do you think that you were sent here Sent here for some great thing Do you have some sacred duty Only you can fulfill Are you better than everyone Are you better than everyone Are you better than everyone Are you better than everyone Third eye blinded But I'm looking at you Looking at you Looking at you Looking at you Looking at you L...

Killing in the name of Jesus Shattering the peace and sweet bliss We pray for what our dream is All our fate in the hands of the priests All our fate in the hands of the priests Killing in the name of Jesus When the sun rises He sees us We pray for what our dream is All our fate in the hands of the priests All our fate in the hands of the priests If God is love What are we fighting for? We keep sa...

They come to take the earth away And what they leave is not enough For all they get is just a field And it's the biggest kind of bluff And I have seen them at their work And I have watched them at their play And I've been near enough to hear Them saying "Now we're on our way" But it's fool's gold The things they do are all for fool's gold For everything is built on fool's gold The end result is on...

You were planted by the window Little pot Big dream I watched you reach for mornings That never quite turned green You're the lily that never bloomed Still I saved you all this room On my sill By my spoon We grew old in the same small gloom Oh Lily that never bloomed You were my unfinished June I talked to you at midnight Spilled my secrets in the steam You answered back in silence But you brighte...

Paris is Black Paris is Black Paris is Black Paris is Black So I'm black in Paris Where they think the future is yellow The Chinese know the roads But I'm like "What's yellow?" My friend used to live in the suburbs But he became "one of them" He no longer eats the same food He looks like a white And he also says the same things The police often stop me 'Cause I have dreadlocks My ID card's never e...

Alarm at five Coffee in a plastic cup Kiss you once Try not to wake you up Steel-toed boots Lines outside the factory gate Clocked-in ghost Paycheck coming late One job Two hands Three mouths to feed We stretch that receipt like a torn-up sheet Rent wants blood And the lights want more I hang my name on the hardware door One job ain’t enough for this worn-out heart So I break each day into working...

Suitcase by the heater Coffee in a paper cup Map pinned on a fridge that isn't mine I kiss your faces on a screen Tap twice so you might see I'm here But all my heart is where you are I'm far from home Counting down the days like prayers Your drawings on the motel drawer Your voices floating through this air I work these miles for something more But I ache down to the core Every time I turn the ke...

Oh lord Here come the kings of war 'Cause they all love the show You know they all love to gloat They get richer and richer while our mothers moan While we all scream "Please Just bring them home" They want to keep us broke They say the meek will inherit the earth Well Why we waiting for? And why we die before we get to live first? When will we learn? They playing games with our lives They don't c...

I don't know if there's a heaven I don't know if there's a hell But I do know if I want my peace of mind Gotta find it for myself Yeah Don't look up Don't look down Look around I'm gonna live for the Dharma I'm gonna live for today And if tomorrow never comes That's okay I can do this the hard way I can do this with grace Either way I'm gonna live for the Dharma 'Cause I know we suffer I know that...

Camera in the corner Sticker on my phone Clock on every doorway Tracking when I’m home Search bar knows my secrets Better than my friends Tiny print acceptance I scroll and just pretend Eyes in the wires Watching Every step I take Tracing my tired patterns Down to each mistake If every click’s recorded Tell me what is mine When all my quiet moments Live on some hard drive Badge that opens turnstil...

He swore on a book he never read Plastic flag pinned to his suit Teleprompter glow in his eyes Saying "They’re the threat" Maps spread out like board games Oil fields marked in red He points at a country he can’t pronounce Says "Freedom starts there" Fake president Paper crown war Talking like a hero from behind locked doors You light the match We feel the flame You sell the lie We take the blame...

Time stands still When you wake up early And there's no one else on the street So you hear the sound of your own feet In this town of eight million people There's no one around Before the madness starts again In the morning In the morning In the morning Before the madness starts again Some days you wonder if the madness is in you So you go out before the world can wake you up You hold on to the la...

Used to feel so alive And so grateful to have survived Now I wake up each morning On the edge of a knife I don't want to feel this way And I hate that I can't change But the drugs don't work I guess This life's a pill that I swallow So I can feel okay This life's a pill that I swallow So I can feel okay This life's a pill that I swallow So I can feel okay This life's a pill that I swallow So I can...

You can lose yourself in London Walk around in circles all night long The stuff you think you got to have The hang-ups in your head Ain't worth as much as you think they're worth So why do you carry 'em? Put it in a backpack and lose it in the middle of Rome Then see what you find Hey All you got to do is go And I mean go 'Cause you don't have to stay Where you been so long If you don't belong The...