Peace, God

Yo

I was just saying what a beautiful life is

You ever look at the dark side

Glimpse of it

(I can see the light)

Word is bond

(I can see the light)

Yeah

The night's a dark lord, well dressed, seducing our sun

Upon the dawning of a full day, he usually would come

Galloping upon his winged horse

Leaving trails of stars across the planet, night scene of New York

Comes to life with lights, pubs, clubs with thugs

Mobsters, gangsters, criminals, dealers with drugs

Loud music crowds are moving up and down blocks

In and out of spots, cops watch for a foul shooting

So how we moving, my soul scour through the clouds where the Moon'll sit

Like the wise owl searching through a gloomy mist

Six, I bring a casket down to his tomb

Another child gets pushed through the uterus

From the womb we're intuitive

Eternal peace or damnation depending what we do with it

A genius or a lunatic

A general or a fugitive, it's essential...

Word

It's essential to be a man of your word

Take care of your seeds

To the young kids, honor your mother

The greedy night is full of demon smiles

And every hustler wear horns and every fiend comes from the ground

The FBI got satellite radars screening our child

Jacking off to our chaos, the beast get aroused

There's another world with underbosses, rich not into flossing

Put hits on certain lawmen who pick who runs for office

If they switch then the guns are brought in

Who parted with professional ball players with big endorsement

Who love to trick on hoes that sniff blow in bathroom toilets

They alcoholics, go through mad divorces

See their wives in the papers with half their fortune

Then there's the mob leaving tips a hundred bucks at the bar

Big spenders around the dealers shuffling cards

Evil laughter, puffing cigars

In a room full of goons, tats cover their bullet wounds

Rats are pulled from lagoons

Mexican mob doing shots of tequila, live ****

Throwing up knots in their pictures

With gang signs at the same time

If crack was awards and could frame nines

You would have plaques and coke scale and money stacks

But there's another party with Presidents, CIA intelligence

The federal defense executives with the aliens

Iraqis and Israelians

And by the time of my demise, the one who talk to Cain shall rise

The second time while Abel blood rains from the skies

And who knows where my soul will fly

I'm near a cemetery on top of a dark hillside, it's essential...

Everything's essential

To the single black mothers who handle their business

Always about their paper and doing their numbers

It's essential, know what I mean? It's essential

To the youth out there, be a soldier

Take care of yours

Keep your health

Always keep a clear mind

Look at the world in front of you, y'know

Snow fills the night air as the wind throws her thick white hair

Across her face, icicles appear, fall from space

Like tears, white frost, light flakes

I'm with my peers, remorse at the wake

So many cats I know are lost this way

Sprayed up by bullets, I'm in my Woolrich, we cross them graves

My man spoke, mad hoarse from pain

He said, "Yo, Priest, just think of what we lost today"

The city lights are like the ice around a rich man's wrist

Where every hustler, big dreamer, prays it grants them a wish

By myself, right off the belt 'til hit the Van Wyck

Cruising, jigsaw my thoughts, I need a plan to exist

Should I get on it like them Cuban Guerillas?

Fly to their country, make a truce with their killers, move in a villa

I come with few of my **** they come with theirs

We politic on struggle and social affairs while toasting beers

My man had cunning ideas to get rich with mobsters

But what if it didn't prosper? Look what they did to Hoffa

My feet buried in the sand out in Nicaragua

Or on a cruise out to Venezuela

On a ship with a pool designer clothes and expensive tailors

Sipping cappuccino, favorite flavor, French vanilla

Exotic foods, catching shrimps, no more menace failure

The Offering's the movie, my others albums just trailers

I can't hardly sit through the news, watching fictional tool

Political views, the sky is dark as the original Jews

Subliminal clues left in the hieroglyphs

Where the ancient empires exist

Walk inside the cliffs in Cairo, read papyruses

On a wall it's full of gaul or Judas the Disciple's kiss

At the Last Supper, nowadays is the microchip in the skull

My survival kit is a rifle clip (It's essential)

It's essential to look out for our family

Stay strong

Yo, Epo, man, I don't even know, man

(It's essential)

Got me zoning out right now

Look at the world

Be into your heart, you know what I mean?

The mind, body and soul

I just want to give a shout-out

I wanna give a shout-out to the whole world, man (The world)

Everything's essential, you know what I mean?

To the hoods and everybody (The whole world)

Become your own government, man, become your own

Live.. you gotta live strong, you know what I mean?

It's essential, food, clothing, health, all that, you know what I mean?

I wanna give a shout-out to the whole Brooklyn

Gates Avenue, where I'm from, nah mean

Brownsville, where I'm from, you know what I mean?

For the whole Brooklyn

Big up to Red Hook, yeah

What up to Shabazz the Disciple, man

I'ma shout you out, that's my **** right there

Word up, yo

For anybody who helped me on the album (West Coast), nah mean

You came through, for real (Everybody in the world)

A slow life is essential

Shout out everybody there, man

Live long and live strong, uh, nah mean

(Prelude to the apocalypse)

This goes out or DJ Huggy, man

Good lookin' on this track right here, for real

Just live long

It's essential

Nah mean, stand up, man, stand up like a man

I'm ready, I'm ready for the war, man

Ready y'all, ready

Priest is ready, man, a.k.a. putting in work, uh