Hieroglyphics - Wyclef Jean, Ausar

'Cause still I rise, ayy

Cooldown the rod

Cast all my cares to wayside

Won’t waste time

Won’t waste time

Make a world hard, some are war side

It’s a war call for the future to come

Now bring it back like

Ooh, ooh

This young David, I’m war ready, to soar heavy

I forced every opponent to change course

And I’m more steady, pour every ounce of my spirit in it

I sense it, I feel it, I killed it like I’m off a six-pack a

Liquid courage, I know that you’re caught scary

I been in the crunch time, explored every option

Implored every resource, adopted a doctrine

That’s true to my conquest

God must have known the platform that I’ve garned

Garnished my words like a farm of manure

And it’s crops for the harvest, might yield us the target

You sow, you reap

The more you keep, the less you gain

Before I meet the reaper

Pray the words I speak become coveted

It’s a covenant for change

Sort of like when MLK wanted to waste the case

I make her pay homage, she leaves before me

'Cause still I rise, ayy

Cooldown the rod

Cast all my cares to wayside

Won’t waste time

Won’t waste time

Make a world hard, some are war side

It’s a war call for the future to come

Now bring it back like

Ooh, ooh

Let’s get it started for the dearly departed

No art for niggas just makin' money out of the oven

'Cause in they lovin', they be like the president on the face

Put a lawyer on mace and then he beat the case

Ain’t no love for the rats with their ace with the base

My joker’s a wild card, if we beat the A’s

Everyone picks it when they parlay Creole

In other words, I was raised with that creole

Like New Orleans voodoo, Suga this is creole

Let me see your palm, nigga, 'cause I can read 'em

They ate off in this hand and he’s going for kill

I’m protected by what I can’t see but can feel

And I’m holdin' my breath underwater like Seal did

We come from the fields

Ooh, bad bunny, unconscious

This is what happened when we set off the rocket launchers

When Melly Mel was sayin', Chaka Khan let me rock this

I was in the projects, doin' the gymnastics

On the pissy mattress, yeah, the big red man

Eddie Cain with five heartbeats and a range

Hashtag this I wish that

Cousin never got caught with a brick, yeah

Hit 'em with the law part, but they missed, yeah

Y’all but they lookin' like kids

But y’all got you lookin' like Godzilla feet

Check the feature, son of a preacher

Last supper boy I be sittin' with Peter

Mary Magdalena told me there’s an informer

You will see the sign when he kissed by Judah

What was gonna pull up with the horse and shooters

Peter gonna pull it so they cut the soldier

'Cause still I rise, ayy (I raise)

Cooldown the rod

Cast all my cares to wayside

Won’t waste time

Won’t waste time (Wate time)

Make a world hard, some are war side

It’s a war call for the future to come

Now bring it back like

Ooh, ooh