Lupe Fiasco - Haile Selassie lyrics

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Haile Selassie

High, high as the eyelids of osprey

I'm driving

Poseidon your trident can't stop me, from diving

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

As I float

Brand new shell for my ghost

Tattoos all on my coast

Throughout history

It has been the inaction of those

Who could have acted

The indifference of those

Who should have known better

The silence of the voice of justice

When it mattered most

This, has made it possible

For evil to triumph

Selassie

Man's limitation, transfiguration

I can dance done

I have to welcome to the demo

Modern man comes to the weddin' in the limo

Mixin' doves with the rice rain

Uncle Ben's off the rails on the night train

And that storm took us to the platform, push us

Back to the bachelor's backdoor, unhook us

Hope this track take you back

To where the fat girl pushed us

And that's very old like Blackberry Bold but the juice

Sweeter than where the party at,

Or releasing these niggas from the rooms,

And

Leavin' these niggaz on the loose,

Or keepin' these niggaz in the coops,

And leavin' these niggas on the noose, free

Shamu fan got a world to see

Haile Selassie

High, high as the eyelids of osprey

I'm driving

Poseidon your trident can't stop me, from diving

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

As I float

Brand new shell for my ghost

Tattoos all on my coast

Then until the philosophy

Which holds one race superior

And another inferior

Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned

That until there’s no longer

First class and second class citizens of any nation

Until the color of a man's skin

Is of no more significance

Than the color of his eyes

Selassie

To the limit

The limit in the Methadone clinic

Ridin' with the pack like a Pelitan

Flyin' with the sack in the trap

Like the pregnant

As it breaks in the backs from the cracks

That we step upon

If I triple my worth

Will it cripple my mom?

If I simple my search

Will it mental my calm?

Will it hurt if I give you my palm?

To telland don't put a nail in it

And how you gonna see the world if you wailin'?

And readin' my palms like there's braille in it

Is it the trail or the forest?

Or the forest with the trail in it?

That's a sail with a 12 in it

Water coming through from impalin' it

Nothin' left of the boat but my hoes

Still I fill up the world and I float,

Like

Haile Selassie

High, high as the eyelids of osprey

I'm driving

Poseidon your trident can't stop me, from diving

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

As I float

Brand new shell for my ghost

Tattoos all on my coast

A qualified man with vision

Unmoved by daily selfish interests

He led to right decisions by his conscience

In general, a man who knows from whence he comes

And where he's going

Will cooperate with his fellow human beings

He will not be satisfied

With merely doing his ordinary duties

But will inspire others by his good example

You are being watched by the nation

And you should realize

That you, will satisfy it

If you do good

But on the contrary, you do evil,

It will lose its hope and confidence in you

Selassie

Hydrant open wide

On the side of the colonized

Swimmin' in the street,

Fell asleep on my mama thighs

Blockin' out the noise

That destroys little boys

Live enjoy, ships ahoy,

Get deployed by the rock-a-byes

D-d-d-deep into the sea of my dreams

Lyin' fall asleep at the feet of my queen

Hawk comin' right to the beat of your wings

Song for the Ethiopian King

Haile

Haile Selassie

High, high as the eyelids of osprey

I'm driving

Poseidon your trident can't stop me, from diving

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

As I float

Brand new shell for my ghost

Tattoos all on my coast

Haile Selassie

High, high as the eyelids of osprey

I'm driving

Poseidon your trident can't stop me, from diving

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

Lookin' for my

As I float

Brand new shell for my ghost

Tattoos all on my coast