SAUL WILLIAMS - Robeson lyrics

rate me

Beginning with the aftermath

Sayers of sooth who stand aloof

To hide their inner laugh

Depending on the circumstance

I show my tools where niggas know

Where I'm just a fish in pants

Beginning with the aftermath

Sayers of sooth who stand aloof

To hide their inner laugh

Depending on the circumstance

I show my tools where niggas know

Where I'm just a fish in pants

I slept once, the dream has yet to end

It was a purple evening such as this

The curtains had been pulled by a hand unattached

I lay propped on a pillow of eagle feathers

On a couch framed with the skeletons

Of my uncles and great uncles

I did not intend to close my eyes but then I did

The night is falling on the moist palms

Of children too weak to bear it's weight

The stars are visibly breathing

In fact they almost look as if they are chewing gum

The moon is crescented on both sides

While its center remains unseen

I can faintly hear my mother calling me

Or is that my sister singing songs of the railroad?

Robeson is reflected in a floating mirror

Then I realize that the mirror is not floating

But being pulled by a while horse

In a great golden chariot

The horse has human feet

I look down at my feet and they are hooves

When I look up it is no longer night

The sun covers the entire sky

As if it has been stretched to reach all corners

Flames are visible but not threatening

A girl brushes my knee with her tail

She is wearing pink overalls and rollerblades

She signals for me to follow her

As soon as I take a step towards her I'm flying

There are Rocky Mountains below me

I decide to land in a small settlement between mountains

A man walks up to me, he is my father

But he introduces himself to me as John Galt

I ask him if he is the Reverend John Galt

We begin to say the Lord's Prayer together

The whole world seems to join in

The mountains have mouths

I am standing at an altar

It takes a second before I realize I'm getting married

The woman beside me, my bride,

Is sitting in a lotus position on an Indian silk pillow

She is holding a white umbrella over her head

I cannot see her, I keep whispering to her,

"It's okay, love. It's okay, love."

And she keeps shushing me and shushing me

I'm wearing a backpack, I decide to take it off and open it up

It's filling with coloring books and I keep thinking,

"I have to be done in time to pick Saturn up from school.

I have to be done in time to pick Saturn up from school.

I have to be done in time to pick Saturn up from school."

My darling Saturn, I seem to break your heart daily

How could I ever neglect to hug you?

You are a planet hugged by a rainbow

Forgive me, I sometimes become so consumed

In the travails of my own heart that I neglect yours

And there is no greater crime

I will never commit it again

For there is no other adultery

You are my child, God's gift to the world

God's will be done

I love you