Two songs/poems here. One is "Apocalypse"? And the other one is the famous "Black Stacey"
[Esthero:]
Oh ahhhh oooh
[Saul Williams:]
Children of the night
Only some will star the sky
Only believers in death will die
And fathers must feather
the wings of women
For the unfeathered masses
dangle ridiculous
Carrying crosses to phalayx filled tombs
The future sells silence
through blood rivered wombs
That ripple with riddles of cows
and spoons and births
Moons and earths
Sun-centered at noon
[Esthero:]
Now....
[Saul Williams:]
And here I stand
Court jestering infinity
Fetal fisted for revolution
But open hands birth humility
Now what is the density of
an egoless planet?
Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?
I'm slouched into sling steps and
kangoled with gang reps
But my orbit rainbows saturn rings
Mystical eliptical
Presto polaris
Karmic flamed future when
saturns and aries
And now I'm a fish called father
With gills type dizzy
Blowing liquid lullabies
through the spine of time
I'm certain of saturns rivers
and all else is fact
So baptise me in the stars
And wrap me in nighttime
Moon blue
Pupil my sight with orange balls of light
And echo my plight
Through the corridors of metaphor
What else are we living
for if not to create
Fiction and rhyme?
My purpose is to make my soul
Rhyme with my
mind over matter
Minds create matter
minds create fiction
As a matter of fact
As if matter of fact
Matter is fact
So spirit must be fiction
Science fiction
Art fiction
Meta fiction
[Esthero:]
Now
[Saul Williams:]
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living
in the voice of children is
the tao of now
[Esthero:]
You are the divine
reflection of this earth
She does not belong to you, love
there is no need for your correction
All rivers run in the same direction
[Saul Williams:]
If you're serving the father
there's no son without mother
Parent bodies discover
water bodies and drown
Wade me in the water
'Til atlantis is found
On the sea floors of self
I'm starfish and unbound
Heard that name of that
mound is stone mountain
Underwater volcanoes erupt
water fountains of youth
Let's us carnal the equation,
cancel out wind and truth
Swirl me beyond sometimes
Drench me water proof
Let eve drop forever
rain sunsets on my roof
As I sit on the front porch of my sanity
Deciphering hambones to
van gogh this vanity
Oiled egos
Canvased and framed
To be reborn unborn unburied unnamed
A reflection through a blood
stained glass window
Of souls gone yellow around the edges
[Esthero:]
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now
[Saul Williams:]
Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives
But let family bring focus
Out of swamps blossom lotus
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Gravity we water bodied
bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity
[Esthero:]
Now...
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now
[Saul Williams:]
Yes we rise with the
tides towards divinity
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Gravity we water bodied
bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides
toward divinity....
Yes we rise with the
tides towards diviinty
Yes we rise with the
tides towards divinity
Now we rise with the
tides towards divinity
And we rise with the
tides towards divinity
'Cause we rise with the
tides towards divinity
[Esthero:]
Now...
[Saul Williams:]
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living
in the voice of children is
the tao of now
[Esthero:]
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now
I used to hump my pillow at night
The type of silent prayer to make myself prepare for the light
Me and my cousin Duce would rank the girls between one and ten
And the highest number got to be my pillow's pretend
Now I apologize to every high ranker
But you taught me how to dream and so I also thank you
I never had the courage to approach you at school
We joked around a lot and I know you thought I dressed cool
But I was just covering up
All the insecurities that came bubbling up
My complexion had me stuck in an emotional rut,
like the time you Flavor Flav'd me and you played me
"Yo Chuck,
They say you're too black, man."
I think I'm too black
Mom, do you think I'm too black? I think I'm too black
I think I'm too black,
I think I'm too black, black, black, black, black
Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid
I used to use bleaching creme
'Til Madame CJ Walker walked into my dreams
I dreamt of being white and complimented by you,
But the only shiny black thing that you liked was my shoes
Now, I apologize for bottling up
All the little things you said that warped my head and my gut
Even though I always told you not to brag
About the fact that your great grand mother was raped by her
Slave master
Yeah, I became militant too
So it was clear on every level I was blacker than you
I turned you on to Malcolm X and Assata Shakur
Iin the three quarter elephant goose with the fur
I had the high top fade
Wwith the steps on the side
I had the two finger ring, rag top on the ride
I had the sheep skin, name belt, Lee suit,
Kangol, acid wash, Roscoe's chicken and waffle.
Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid
Stick up, ha ha ha stick up
Stick up, ha ha ha stick up
They say I'm too black
They say I'm too black
Hold up, y'all
Here we go
Now here's a little message for you
All you balla playas got some insecurities too
That you could cover up, bling it up
Cash in and ching ching it up
Hope no one will bring it up
Lock it down and string it up
Or you can share your essence with us
'Cause everything about you couldn't be rugged and ruff
And even though you tote a glock and you're hot on the streets
If you dare to share your heart, we'll nod our heads to its beat
And you should do that, if nothing else, to prove that
A player like you could keep it honest and true
Don't mean to call your bluff but
mothafucka that's what I do
You got platinum chain then, son,
I'm probably talking to you
And you can call your gang, your posse and the rest of your crew
And while you're at it, get them addicts and the indigent, too
I plan to have a whole army by the time that I'm through
To load their guns with songs they haven't sung, like,
Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid
Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
They call me Black Stacey
Ah, Black Stacey
Ooh, Black Stacey
Ooh, Black Stacey
Move Black Stacey
Shake Black Stacey
Make Black Stacey
Cry, cry
No, not I.
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