Time Is the Teacher

Lyrics

[Hook: Awon & Dephflow] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions I said time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions [Verse 1: Dephflow] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions What is our real purpose in the first place? What's our true religion, what's our original birthplace? Is any man really worthy of fame? And is life only worth what I purchase in my name? Do black lives matter as much as any others do? Is inequality something that I should be accustomed to? Should I just adjust to you or just be? Is it everybody else or is it just me? What's free in the context of freedom When the concept of me was three fifths human being? How much money is enough money? And why they keep laughing at us? Yo what the fuck's funny? Where do we go from here? What am I supposed to do? Who's looking out for the people Without the focus too? Who's looking into the people inside the focus groups? And why ask questions when you know the truth? [Hook: Awon & Dephflow] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions [Verse 2: Awon] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson When the veil is off What I see is depression My third eye open that's the reason that I rhyme A GED help me escape the school to prison pipeline They gave us white lines to sell to our brothers I victimized somebody father, my homie's mother Through books I discovered the injustice and racism Classes, I'm a fascist nation that hates pigment It's ironic when I think about it Aren't we all human? The bible says We all descended from Adam and Eve And the oldest human fossil was found in Africa So somewhere a white boy is blacker than me One man's chaos is another man's order One man's freedom is another man's slaughter One man's toilet is another man's water The gluttony of a few the starvation of many Only so long before "please" becomes "gimme" They call it a coup when the people pick up semis I hate authority the more they try to oppress I see uprisings and they call it unrest I hate power, "hate" is such a powerful word I love God, putting anything before him's absurd I have no faith in man, I have faith in mankind Through these rhymes I'm the seeing-eye dog for the blind [Hook: Awon & Dephflow] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions [Verse 3: Awon & Dephflow] Time is the teacher Life is the lesson Learning is the journey And I got so many questions Brother, why you dressed up for protest? Photo ops, selfies and brownie points why don't you bring it to the cops? Man why not throw shots, why stop and just watch? If you don't fight back you a prisoner of your block Homie, why don't you want what you really need? Why do we still feel asleep if we really free? Yo is my lifestyle really me? In exchange for equality we let you be, or burn these streets Why so many black pacifists trying to be activists We on some back nationalist rapper shit We making Larry Davises every time you play this shit Celebrating our vindication or staging hits We not saying this shit just to be saying it It's Dephflow and Awon, the only ones saying shit