Shihan on Def Jam Poetry
Flashy words make the world turn but it dont turn right
So i use these real eyes to realize the real lies being spoken but not heard cause
We are more fascinated by that which is fabricated
The icono-classic tactless tactition
Aims toungues spits truth words
Like wrecking balls bounce off brains cause nobody likes to hear whats going on these days
Its like the truth hurts
And we've been lied to a bunch of hollowed minds livin on borrowed times
And nobody likes to hear that
And nobody likes to say it either cause
Lazy angels never carry their wings
And wingless words do nothin but keep us down
So this new york poet yells
There is no satisfaction in knowing that your life is one of the sadest fictions ever written
So take your not-so-satisfactory life back to the sadness factory to
Be reworked and to
Be rewritten and to
Be reconfigured to live right
Open your brain let your heart go
The real you has been locked within your rib cage for too long and
Stop trying to hold on to then cause thats where it all started
And about that same time he forgot fun
She lost hope and now we
Cant find anything
And i swear to god if i could swear to god
I'd ask her what the fuck was she thinkin when she gave us free will
cause we done fucked things up cause kids dont play and god dont pray cause its out of her hands now
See ive rewritten the bible after getting over the primal rage of findin my name disguised within a bibles page and
People trying to disect my destiny
Will find that words somehow make the world turn but it really doesnt turn right
And suddenly the world stops spinnin cause words werent good enough
So i tell you a blind man once told me the true meanin of love at first sight
So i closed my eyes and i recited this poem
To an audience of one and found total gratification and my undivided attention
And when i opened my eyes
I found myself standin before a mirror
Staring into the eyes of an invisible man until my pupils became pupils and i could teach myself to live a better life
Words.
From a peice of mine brings peace of mind all i gotta do is give a peice of mine?
Or in other words peice together the peices in me to create peace within me
But shit they are all peices
Peices to a puzzle when put together is me
So let me tell you somethin
Dont ever do anything youre not supposed to
And speak only when spoken to
And dont speak unless you mean
Cause a good man is hard to find
And a hard man is good to find
And im half the man i used to be
And one fourth the person i should be or could be cause
I sacrificed freedom for stardom
After being fucked out of my freedom without a condom
Now how dumb was i
Words.
Break these words down to the syllables they are or the silly bulls they represent
And what do i represent?
Well its hard to say when my rep presents the fact that i have to question myself or each time that question re-presents itself
I can therefore i am
And sticks and stones may break your bones but
Words will always teach you
Deep.
