Aquamarine (feat. Michael Kiwanuka)

Everything's burning down When I close my eyes again Enemies all around I don't understand my friend, my friend We go from Lira to Libra, from cold water to fever To World War three from the treaty signed in Geneva The biology teacher said we used to be amoebas The neighborhood preacher said we emerged from the ether We converged from urethra and struck gold, eureka The morning star, Tariqa, was born to be a teacher Whether scorpion or the frog, the nature of the creature Is to evolve, though it's the savage beast we truly are My words should be studied up in Berkeley and Juilliard All my bars is hard as solid gold bullion My name in the Quran like the kingdom of Suleiman You done lost your mind trying to call me a moulinyan 'Cause in two, one, five where folks fight depression And wives pack protection, lives lack direction I'm a king, I'm dipped in God's black complexion Survival of the fittest is the natural selection now Bear down on the scene like I'm Saladin The stone courage esteem is aquamarine You mask how you really feel like it's Halloween When they ask how you really feel about my machine In a class that I'm only in Alien, horsepower like a Mongolian Tryna find soul again But my thoughts corrupt the files that contaminate the console again It is a shame, but I cannot complain, though I am not the same My bandwidth is a canvas cut from his frame When I present ideas, naked and unashamed It's handwritten in Sanskrit on a seven train Everything's burning down When I close my eyes again Enemies all around I don't understand, my friend, my friend I've been through hoodies and sneakers to beepers and record features Hustlin' nicks of reefer to tusslin' with the reaper Sensory deprivation to ultimate synesthesia Freein' our brothers' keeper from teeth of another creature Breakin' and enterin' to the theater, the search and seizure Is the worth of genius, somewhere between Earth and Venus At her convenience, even non-believers make prayers Haters and naysayers is buried in cake layers I take day as a blessing and see the night as a lesson Twilight is a message for me to write a confession The matrix, a dominatrix seeking to be served Ever patiently waiting with the demons we deserve Better be willing to pay with every dream that you deferred If the vehicle should swerve, learn to lean into the curve After workin' up the nerve almost equal in size I walked around with the iron for any wrinkle in time I pay the piece of my mind for every nickel and dime But never less than a five and never slept on the job A killer jumped on your squad, yet never left the garage When your God was close enough to see the flesh of his eyes Get to the button and press, it's what the message advised What's a threat? Behind a mess is where the testament lies Everything's burning down When I close my eyes again Enemies all around I don't understand, my friend, my friend