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[Intro] This is all kind of a mass culture, we live in And it makes you, you look You look like something or act like something that you really aren't You know, it's like, um, a falseness It's like a mass personality Just made me so narrow, that I couldn't, really, do I gave myself justice So, I just broke totally away from that whole mighty damn thing They had a lot of rules and regulations which just didn't fit with me you know I wanna do this the way I wanna do it I wanna determine my own destiny I wanna determine how I am to speak on a stage I don't wanna be a mass personality I don't wanna be a one dimension I wanna bе me I wanna be human [Chorus/Hook:] (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) Miles Davis, Nina Simonе, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane They are very serious kinds of artists They approach their, their craft as it's a life, a way of life (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) [Verse 1] A form of relaxation It's a form of emotional release I felt raised, I felt lifted And I realised that once I began to take my art form seriously, that, the divinity, would wrap me [Hook] (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) [Verse 2] Gave me a discipline It gave me, um, an ability to, to expand my mental power Because then I had to begin to analyse And look into all this emotion, all this feeling And all of this gave me a-a-a-a sense of totalness I-I need to be in an atmosphere that is free, that is open, that is striving for truth And not somebody else dictating to you how to do your thing [Chorus] (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) Miles Davis, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane They are very serious kinds of artists They approach their, their craft as it's a life, a way of life (Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas) [Verse 3] And I used to sit there all day and listen to all those beautiful voices, you know, black voices And because of that, I got very involved with blackness 'Cause, it was more, more me I guess