Raising Up! Lyrics

When I was boy, I was cultivated as a product of my environment

A taxed accessory to my ancestors, who's blood fueled the economy of the Americas

Born in land of opportunity, but in our communities, opportunity never landed

Dreams were stranded and babies were abandoned

Some of us were blessed enough to learn from separated parents

How imperfect love worked in an imperfect world

I was birthed in it with purpose, guess I was perfect for this world

As I sat in front of that wood-grain box in the eighties

With no computer to have involvement in this culture that raised me

I felt crazy, maybe cause I had genes from different sides

Inside me was the only place Mom and Dad together resides

As I sat in that white room, ingesting commercials and cartoons

With colorful ghosts all around, awaiting my next move

I had wounds on my flesh, but those spirits might have saved me from death

Blessed, but I truly never knew what I would be next

Another latch-key kid, in a brick building, with very thick ceilings

Born afflictions and no prescriptions for healing

No directions for dealing with the hurt, so the pain went

Inside a stored safe as a boy's memory faded

Sometimes I look back, I can't conveniently change it

Or exchange it, all I can do is keep my energy raising

Yeah

It's going down but I'm raising up

I see ghosts, beautiful mourning, I just waking up

Well-aware, walk with me, the ground's breaking up

This whole worlds shaking up, it feels like I'm raising up

It feels like I'm raising up

I'm raising up

I'm raising up

They say music is vibrations

And so are we, perhaps we're just tuned into different stations

Some different frequencies all trapped in the same matrix

Conflicting melodies occupying the same spaces

I'm tuned in, with all-seeing empathy, intuition

And superstitions that they mistake for mental conditions

Domestication and separation, present conditions

Was meant for education, not to permanently live in

I'm growing up, and I'm breaking my old beliefs

I'm building my mental muscle, I can't evolve with peace

I'm tapped into my hunger, I'm starving, ready to feast

All this pain made me stronger, I'm turning into a beast

I'm getting wiser, killing demons and facing fears

Been a master with my tongue as my sword, I made it clear

To myself that I would never get lost in the faded rear

I'm a always keep evolving, for problems I'll say a prayer

And I'm raising up

It's going down but I'm raising up

I see ghosts, beautiful mourning, I just waking up

Well-aware, walk with me, the ground's breaking up

This whole worlds shaking up, it feels like I'm raising up

It feels like I'm raising up

I'm raising up

I'm raising up

When you move-on to a higher frequency

That's when you start using your higher faculties

You cannot connect the dots looking forward

You can only connect them looking backwards