This is for You (Original Version)

Lyrics

[Intro: Bliss] Yo people always come up to and like "man I want some personal shit, I wanna hear about you, where you from where you've been" So I say [Verse 1: Bliss] I sprouted in the spring of '80 sailed the seas for A third world home shipwrecked in Indonesia Drifted to Virginia got the cargo like an historian Takin' it back without Donnie Darko in the Delorian Learned beatboxing mimicing PGC You remember The Titans but I never did CTC Just public elementary the PTA called a stray noise NWA tapes hidden under the bed before playboys '92 went down under I'm like ET Cause no one spoke this language except some dude in the P.E See we found a bond or just an excuse to cuss lots But you're damn right the only two dudes rapping at the bus stop And even though we fronted we still grew to what was right Using a busted boombox and half a headphone as a mic We all got different roots And we all blossom differently I'm proud now a conductor of my own goddamn symphony [Hook: Bliss] {X2} Cause this is for you you're the reason I wrote this You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet Oh it's just another taste from the bottle Oh it's Bliss n Eso's page from the novel [Verse 2: Bliss] And through this music I can see complete views Of who I am where I stand my feet feel sweet dude But I never grew up on Sugar Hill man the stage is Earth So fuck taking my history as a fact to the gauge my worth We birth, I polinated Growing flowers in the pavement to renew the fallen faded Feel this essence I'm calling waited through the faces of solemn shaded But no one can find it it's my precious like Gollum stated I'm lost with my Walkman switched to poor tracks Bewildered so I predict the forecast I see gold and yellow browns fall upon the asphalt I drive a street sweeper like a bee keeper protecting his last folds That contains the essence I found (I was a kid) It's the youth that be blessin' the sound Kids with funny chuckles honey suckle huckle berry and nectar Plain strain stain games sword children sectors And it's the same spark within the childs fusebox That lights the way and my crew flocks See sticks and stones will never trip these clones So we just knit these poems to clothe fit these homes of the needy Indeliable grafitti soaks in That gets buffed the next day no emotions invoked in If you're thirsty there's a well just where you live But come with an open mind bring a cup and not a shiv [Hook: Bliss] Cause this for you you're the reason I wrote this You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet Oh it's just another taste from the bottle Oh it's just another page from the novel This is for you you're the reason I wrote this You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet Oh it's just another taste from the bottle Oh it's Bliss n Eso's page from the novel [Verse 3: Eso] You see the meaning of life is like that book you read Where the chapter is missing While the future is our's to manifest as we wish But you can't change the past cause the apple's been bitten You see in January I awoke to a bed full of roses And February wouldn't exist without her closeness Suppose it's just March's way on how to start the day Let my soul spill and fill half the lake Her harmony's the only thing that can make me behave Hoping next month grows wings and takes me away If you could only see me dancing on my notepad Oblvious to the things I don't have Cause music is everywhere, music is life To the rythmn of the tap drip music is mine Music is your's, and you can feel it on tours From trains to bus rides, down south to up north May the force be with you, see this grew three fistfulls A poetry with power Life I know it's in the flowers it's magic where my mind is on orbit From here to the end of the year through July and August See as a youngin' hip hop made me want the world's riches It even had me out there calling girls bitches (bitch!) But when I found my sign as a mountain goat Alone in my zone I built a house of hope To sustain the weather in September have some leverage for November And the note I gave December when I met her From invisible cloaks to crossbows and catapults To questions and answers to the problems that we haven't solved I sit and dwell and soak up nearly half the curb With a bottle for tomorrow as I laugh and burp That's me on the top of hill with a heart of dirt On a high in the sky like the stars and birds [Hook: Bliss and Eso] {X2} This is for you you're the reason I wrote this You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet Oh it's just another taste from the bottle And I hope this feeling stays 'til tomorrow