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taking you guys on a time machine it's one that you can't see,
but one you can feel it's a colored people's time machine
now if i could go back i wouldn't change a thing
i'd give thanks for all of it even the pain
it reshaped my life in ways hard to explain all i can say is it gets better with age
time heals, and it reveals all things i'm in a colored people's time machine
we're never late i just drive a concept you gotta recreate
the way it's in your mind time doesn't move, we move through time
ever since the beginning we've been playing with rhythm
this tradition we remember and constantly reinvented
is absolutely indigenous african, intuitive
music is the key we unlock memories hidden in our genes
and ancestors walk when i talk so free i'm a future ancestor to my unborn seeds
and everything's happening at once right, i see it in moments
and i feel it in dreams and it would be so easy if i could let go
of me it's a constant process, unravelling
you call it hip hop? i call it colored people's time machine -
- made of music you feel what you don't see
i ride the vessel, the vessel is also me it surrounds
we navigate the space of in between and everything you see you are just remembering
a machine made of music you feel what you don't see
i ride the vessel, the vessel is also me it surrounds
we navigate the space of in between and everything you see you are just remembering
now about music, there's only 2 kinds:
music that's timeless, and music for the time you don't have to speak my tongue to feel
where i'm coming from i cook soul food
they force feed you bubble gum to sense where we're going
i check where we're coming from seeing us as one part of a large continuum
everything you do has been done, and then some
stars get forgotten fast as they go platinum some legends go undiscovered til they laying
in coffins and music lives on
any minute your gone i just want to capture a moment with every
song cause it's all so fleeting, beautiful, bleeding,
concretely deceiving we all chasing the sun
and lost our way when time equated to funds when you become the vessel then it's easy
to see what has always been
colored people's time machine - - made of music
you feel what you don't see i ride the vessel, the vessel is also me
it surrounds we navigate the space of in between
and everything you see you are just remembering a machine made of music
you feel what you don't see i ride the vessel, the vessel is also me
it surrounds we navigate the space of in between
and everything you see you are just remembering
that's my colored people's time machine peace to eardr.umz the metrognome who made
this beat seattle, washington