The Turning Point

Lyrics

[Poem: Thabisile Griffin] Render you unstoppable Take the red lights from which we arose Let 'em slide into your nervous system Broil down, melting into bone marrow Let it glow more relentlessly than fresh wheels at R. Kelly night at the skate rink And since you got the juice now Pour back in a fruit rines String 'em to trees And stand wide-eyed as the unspoken gets fermented When you'll be labeled powerless, unfit, unworthy, hood dirt, too black, white, damage, change confused Exhaling humid phoenix breath and shade for the winds and you not normal But when you be labeled, explode in it Cough up homeless fireworks Hold them arpeggios close and extract pride off broken train track When flashbacks bust lip open and you've got beef And heated heart rate refined Stumbling over shards of memory Roaches and cereal bowls, snow storms Let it be known your bullets breed benevolence Your aim is clear, you alchemist of archetype Your hiccups be autograph Counter to mismanaged history You return to us Reminiscent on tomorrow When you were a miracle And yesterday, when become legend When you were born before you were conceived And interrupted it all