Do You Know Who You Are? Take Some Time To Meditate On You Lyrics

Do You Know Who You Are? Take Some Time To Meditate On You - M.I Abaga

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Do you know who you are?

What is your name?

[Hook: Tay Iwar]

Sometime you wonder why?

And wonder how?

Don't be alone, just say he conquers

Even if you choose or not to find

Through all the bullshit

With no dirty shoes

Finding the truth

Is not hard to figure out your life

Take your time and let it rain on you

Blessings from mother earth are always

Always true

Take your time and meditate on you

(do you know who you are?)

(what is your name? what is your worth?)

[Verse 1: M.I Abaga]

My child is like the words of this ancient mythology

The wisdom I disperse in this verse, no apology

Memorise to keep you from evil theology

For you [?] your equality

See for generations we perpetrated psychology

Divide and conquer each other we relish policy

You cannot build each other up?

How would you build economy

How you think is how you are

Its just basic neurology

So please recite the words of this ancient mythology

The wisdom I disperse in this verse, no apology

Do you realise the Negros a hunted commodity

Look around you Nigga, observe your ecology

See they gon try to tell you it's in your biology

They gon tell you niggas [?] technology

That's why we have to re-write our anthropology

Until they acknowledge me follow me into knowledge tree [?]

[Hook: Tay Iwar]

Take your time and let it rain on you

Blessings from mother earth are always

Always true

Take your time and meditate on you

(do you know who you are?)

(what is your name? what is your worth?)

[Verse 2: M.I Abaga]

Yeah, tell me the value of a free born Nubian

In all his habitation death will keep pursuing him

Black is beautiful is a truism or is it?

Generation raised just to ruin em, revisit

Shipped across the seas or be conquered, the options

Labour in the mind or be shackled for autions

Whatever path you take, your existence is function

Centuries later things will still be the same with caution

Blackman meditate on your pain

Hesitate in the rain

Let it wash you of the curse

And immerse in the hurt

Let your words be of worth

Have a thirst for the truth

Find protection for youth

Niggas open your wing

Let your woman be king

Let your children be dreams

Then you find em the means

Give em reasons to smile

Maybe last for a while

As I [?] a better future my child

[Hook: Tay Iwar]

Take your time and let it rain on you

Blessings from mother earth are always

Always true

Take your time and meditate on you

[Interlude]

We got two major issues

And identity crisis and psychological homelessness

We hate our Africanity

Even within the Black consciousness community

we are still anti-African because deep down within our subconscious;

we were all conditioned by the same superstructure that made us feel that Africa wasn't anything worth claiming

Our problem is totally mental, we are a trillion dollar people. We got all the degrees we need, all the expertise but you know what we're lacking? That cultural commitment to ourselves

Until we hate racism, more than we hate eachother; nothing is going to change

[Outro: M.I Abaga & Caryn Solomon]

It was a learning process for me to understand that the world does (hate you!?) yes

The world discriminates, the world is full of prejudice and bigotry and racism and hatred, it's real. I completely agree with you and that's the sorta explicit world against you, there's a more insidious world against you which I think is to do with socialisation process. The expectation of men to be the strong one is a hell of an expectation, it's actually terrible; because what do you do with all the real human vulnerability? and then it goes back to what we started off talking about, you have to become the superhero. The big muscle man and you aren't, you're just a person. Some of you are strong and some of you are weak, you're just a person and a full person has all the vulnerability in the world. We need men's liberation, to liberate men from the shackles of having to be a warrior and a prophet and a soldier and a killer and a big strong muscle man; to just be a person