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Welcome to our weightless, hateless state of being

An oasis from racist, sexist ways of seeing

Where colors run together like sun-melted crayons from way back when

And people used to express themselves philosophically with a pad and a pen

Making words matter again

Taking them back to the days where lyricists respected women

Connected with them

Courting every lady like a queen

I.E., with style and grace, so you know what we mean

We provide good loving and respect their dreams

No gravity

No master above me

No strategy

Could capture or crush me

We enter the room and the atmosphere shifts

I enter the rhythm and dismantle the myth

Words make worlds

Then watch me create one

They came with a cage

I came to escape one

They measure our value by money and status

I measure the distance from trauma to balance

The tongue is a weapon

The mind is the magazine

We fire ideas into zero gravity

Let it go, let it rise, let it roll through the night

Lose the weight of the world when we step in the light

If they tell you stay grounded, tell 'em gravity lied

We were born for the moment when the floor leaves the sky

When our gift hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When our tongue hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When the assembly hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When our fam takes the stage, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

Oh, we're floating now

Nothing's holding us down

Whole room off the ground

Zero gravity now

If you think you're living in a democratic nation

Nonparticipation in the process is the limitation

You've been placing on your own self

Do you need help?

Problems seem too heavy to bear?

The ironclad Lions will be there

Even when no one else cares

If you're down to try

And wanna learn how to fly

The secret is in the art of missing the ground

And when the drone's around, learning how to not make sound

Constructively using language to turn the whole system around

Put a verb in the gears

Put a truth in the code

Put a question in the minds

Of the people they control

When the weight gets applied

We redistribute pressure

When the powerful lie

I interrogate the measure

They can dominate the signal

But the rhythm remains

They can fabricate the facts

But can't manufacture our names

They want obedient bodies

And predictable minds

But we slipped through the system

And escaped their design

No ceiling above us, no chains on the sound

The art of learning to fly

Is learning to miss the ground

When our gift hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When our tongue hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When the assembly hits the room, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

When our fam takes the stage, it's like zero gravity, zero gravity, zero gravity

Come away, come alive

Leave the heavy world behind

Every color, every voice

Every body has the right

To rise

To rise

To rise into the night

No throne, no crown

No force can hold us down

When the family takes the stage

The whole world leaves the ground

Who brought the words?

We brought the meaning

Who brought the light?

We broke through the ceiling

Who brought the gift?

The ones they overlooked

Who rewrote the future?

The people with the books

No kings

No cages

No masters

No stages

Can contain

What we became

When we took back the language

And remembered our names

You thought power meant

Standing over somebody

We discovered power

The moment we lifted everybody

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