Write at Home - Talib Kweli, Datcha, Bilal

Peace, peace, everything we do is a creation

In complete harmony, our creation becomes art

Everything we’ve ever invented stems from the human imagination

Everything we’ve ever invented or created

That moved an era is recognized as work of genius

Science and the empirical man, philosophy and the thinker

Religion and the shaman, art and the sick who can metabolize

Everything with a trace of decay is human error

Forgivable human error the curse

From the radiance of the gift which becomes shadow

Necessary evil so to speak, or we’d have figured it out by now

Striving for perfection is a result of genius

Find peace, share your genius

See I can’t see my own face without a reflection

Whether it be your reaction to my expression, a mirror or water

I need the outside to know the inside which is where I reside

Through this understanding, I know that all things are one

According to science, everything is a wave of energy

A soundwave reaches my ear and my mind makes something of it

My eyes are receptors for another type of energy

Which my mind then depicts as images, same goes for smell and touch

Time and space are tools which help me concretize these waves into information

Now when given full attention to something other than time and space

Time and space disappear, I’m simply doing

Yesterday, tomorrow, here, there, poof!

It is always now, all is energy

Even thoughts are forms of energy waves floating

Technically I’m only a vessel channeling those thoughts

My mind chooses to tune into these frequencies

Which I either contemplate or share with the outside

I believe we all function with the same foundation

Energy, which is everything

Everything is one big ocean of energy

Everything is within you, everything is you

The identity of me is but a series of memories

In which my mind decides to narrate in order to create that feeling

Remember it is always now

The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is conserved

In other words, energy can neither be created or destroyed

Energy only transforms

We are thus forever, and death is but a blink

So I ask why hurt?

Why kill?

Why hate?

Why fear?

Why war?

Why the feelings of uneasiness if all is but a single form of energy

entertaining itself?

Can the state of the world change?

Can the state of the world change?

If energy only seems to transform then why not?

It seems as if darkness has always reigned over

We live on a planet amongst the system in a dark space

A planet amongst other planets routing around the sun

In the same fashion as electrons do

Around the nucleus which form the cells, which form us

Ah yes, all is one, and my friends, it is beautiful

Let us unify our heart, now feel your power and I thank you

Peace and forever

Yeah, uh

Snap ya fingers, do ya step

Ayyy, where we at with it?

Where you at?

Uh, uh

What era is this, man?

The era of the musical beautiful mistakes

Delivered hand to hand like we slangin' the mixtapes

You tryin' to describe us, you might as well get it straight

We the content creators, we greater than clickbait

The passion for the culture, the vultures they try to kill it

It’s a war for your spirit, the lyrics is here to heal us

We looking for the fountain to keep us forever young

While I get my energy from the sun, all things are one

Rollin' the blunt on a copy of Native Sun

Gettin' hung just for speakin' the native tongue

My color is my penalty mentally on the run

Photosynthesizing my energy from the sun, huh

Releasing blockages I ain’t stoppin' until they gone

Feeling weighted down like my pockets is full of stone

Until I realized I can change what’s going on (let's go!)

To every single place I go I’m right at home

I’m right at home (let's go!)

Waiting for that day to come, huh

Looking for fountains to keep us forever young

Get my energy from the sun

Rollin' the blunt on a copy of Native Sun

Gettin' hung just for speakin' the native tongues