[00:38]Hook: Bilal [00:52]Your inner heart, your inner mind [00:55] You’re the star that will always shine [00:58] Forever you’ll be with me [01:03]Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco [01:04]Uh, it go like [01:06]You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul? [01:08]Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes? [01:11]This is balance [01:12]Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge [01:14]Between the solitary and the conference that I examines [01:18]That I imagine was a figure [01:20]Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas [01:24]Like the transubstantiation of liquor [01:25]But that’s just turnin’them into blood [01:27]And we’ll be right back where we was [01:29]Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors [01:32]So I can cut [01:33]Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners [01:37]For advancement of human suffering [01:39]And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials [01:42]That’s gon’ bring it back to us again [01:44]A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s [01:47]Hook: Bilal [01:48]Your inner heart, your inner mind [01:50]You’re the star that will always shine [01:52]Forever you’ll be with me [01:57]Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco [01:57]Shotgun [01:58]Even though independent cars ain’t got one [02:01]I got some and more to spare [02:03]No more despair [02:05]My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate [02:08]Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there [02:11]My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here [02:14]I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit [02:16]Affion on the Drake skit [02:18]Now how many more can I make with just one voice [02:21]They might call it fake shit [02:23]This some deep shit [02:24]It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit [02:27]Vicariously in every rap I speak with [02:30]I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless [02:32]Cause I’mma be you [02:34]Even though you’re not here to be with [02:36]I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers [02:38]Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream [02:40]In a world so Martin Luther King-less [02:43]Hook: Bilal [02:43]Your inner heart, your inner mind [02:45]You’re the star that will always shine [02:47]Forever you’ll be with me [02:53]Your inner heart, your inner mind [02:56]You’re the star that will always shine [02:58]Forever you’ll be with me [03:06]Outro: Lupe Fiasco [03:08]And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott [03:15]In a discourse with Baldwin [03:17]On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’ [03:20]But wishin’ it never lands [03:22]Reminiscent of the dream time [03:24]Presently en route to the rise of the machine time [03:28]Magazine times [03:29]With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee [03:32]Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks [03:35]Roads as bumpy as braille books [03:37]Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door [03:42]Gourmet food at the starving soiree [03:44]A choice of one easy woman at a time [03:47]I’ll take three the hard way [03:50]Trying to be as abstract as possible [03:52]And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable [03:55]A baby fed molten gold [03:57]And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls [04:00]How to describe this [04:03]Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence [04:08]Some more technically impressive [04:09]In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic [04:14]Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby [04:18]Might as well not even exist, not even a bit [04:21]In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor [04:25]And to the oppressors, I leave a war [04:28]And so on and so forth
[00:38]Hook: Bilal [00:52]Your inner heart, your inner mind [00:55] You’re the star that will always shine [00:58] Forever you’ll be with me [01:03]Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco [01:04]Uh, it go like [01:06]You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul? [01:08]Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes? [01:11]This is balance [01:12]Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge [01:14]Between the solitary and the conference that I examines [01:18]That I imagine was a figure [01:20]Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas [01:24]Like the transubstantiation of liquor [01:25]But that’s just turnin’them into blood [01:27]And we’ll be right back where we was [01:29]Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors [01:32]So I can cut [01:33]Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners [01:37]For advancement of human suffering [01:39]And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials [01:42]That’s gon’ bring it back to us again [01:44]A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s [01:47]Hook: Bilal [01:48]Your inner heart, your inner mind [01:50]You’re the star that will always shine [01:52]Forever you’ll be with me [01:57]Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco [01:57]Shotgun [01:58]Even though independent cars ain’t got one [02:01]I got some and more to spare [02:03]No more despair [02:05]My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate [02:08]Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there [02:11]My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here [02:14]I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit [02:16]Affion on the Drake skit [02:18]Now how many more can I make with just one voice [02:21]They might call it fake shit [02:23]This some deep shit [02:24]It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit [02:27]Vicariously in every rap I speak with [02:30]I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless [02:32]Cause I’mma be you [02:34]Even though you’re not here to be with [02:36]I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers [02:38]Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream [02:40]In a world so Martin Luther King-less [02:43]Hook: Bilal [02:43]Your inner heart, your inner mind [02:45]You’re the star that will always shine [02:47]Forever you’ll be with me [02:53]Your inner heart, your inner mind [02:56]You’re the star that will always shine [02:58]Forever you’ll be with me [03:06]Outro: Lupe Fiasco [03:08]And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott [03:15]In a discourse with Baldwin [03:17]On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’ [03:20]But wishin’ it never lands [03:22]Reminiscent of the dream time [03:24]Presently en route to the rise of the machine time [03:28]Magazine times [03:29]With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee [03:32]Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks [03:35]Roads as bumpy as braille books [03:37]Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door [03:42]Gourmet food at the starving soiree [03:44]A choice of one easy woman at a time [03:47]I’ll take three the hard way [03:50]Trying to be as abstract as possible [03:52]And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable [03:55]A baby fed molten gold [03:57]And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls [04:00]How to describe this [04:03]Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence [04:08]Some more technically impressive [04:09]In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic [04:14]Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby [04:18]Might as well not even exist, not even a bit [04:21]In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor [04:25]And to the oppressors, I leave a war [04:28]And so on and so forth
