The Roots - The Spark

[00:01.03] (You'll soon depart. *echoes from the last track*) [00:06.13] Chorus: malik b (2x) [00:07.08] Yo, the feet that I walk with [00:07.95] The ears that I hear with, the eyes that I see with [00:10.79] The mouth that I talk with, the terror that I stalk with [00:13.94] Now it's time to spark shit [00:26.49] [Malik b] [00:26.77] Look god, I walk around a little edgy already [00:29.08] Y'all mc's come into my face, but my aim's steady [00:31.68] M-illitant is skilled in most strategic plan [00:34.00] I float across seas and, breezed across land [00:37.03] Standin, in these thoughts of murder within [00:39.47] The structure of this world that's corrupted with sin [00:41.86] I'm always hittin, to leave mc's guessin [00:44.56] For any transgression, in my perimeter [00:47.01] There will be a blessing, and your explicit intoxicated [00:50.04] Buddha session, to stop stressin [00:52.02] Me with the madness, puttin niggaz on my had list [00:54.97] No sadness is felt, you shuffled and your cards get dealt [00:58.01] Jim carrey ass niggaz start to melt [01:00.25] Impact like a buckle bein swung from off a belt [01:02.88] Any help for shelter, when in the realms of a welter [01:05.53] My weight will tilt ya, hold alignments and change your filter [01:08.29] My attitude a product of society [01:10.45] So sometimes for gratitude, you know you can't rely on me [01:12.96] Niggaz eyein me, with looks of they anxiety [01:15.91] Wonderin what's in my heart, velocity or piety [01:19.18] Yo, it depends on which one, you bring to surface [01:21.28] At times I get trife, but what to worship is my purpose [01:23.79] Malik b blend with the tree, to spot an enemy [01:26.51] You cloggin me up cat, now vacant the vicinity [01:29.00] Chorus [01:48.72] [Malik b] [01:49.79] I'm symbolic to a ballot, it's abdul malik [01:52.36] Don't approach with bullshit, I'm quick to call it invalid [01:55.32] Route through your district, we keep it simplistic [01:57.83] No need for the rapper to talk, put it on halt [02:00.35] Show me the vault, or the safe, cause I'm on the paper chase [02:02.80] Wade through route states for bout thirty down my waist [02:05.41] I'm tryin to get it, these rain bottlin thoughts become acidic [02:08.14] With one in the chamber, ready to aim and spit it [02:10.80] A girlfriend and team made nigga cash just splintered [02:13.44] I take what you got to give, cause I got to live [02:16.02] The last hour, I bet your ass? [02:18.78] Might act up, but I still can pass dowa [02:21.31] I'm usin new ways to try to reach these better days [02:23.83] Instead of tryin to take you under I just make you wonder [02:26.52] I still fast, make salaat, and pay zakaat [02:29.23] I didn't make haj yet, but that's my next project [02:31.91] Livin two lives, one of turn and one with true lies [02:34.54] Keepin a hoe, knowin these hands into my du'a [02:36.98] In the quarters livin modest with my nigga trotter [02:39.50] I circle my foes, like tawaf around the kaba [02:42.18] I used to live life, like there was no manana [02:44.98] Now I'm treatin every breath, like it was your honor [02:47.55] I'm mill-itill-itant with the fifth that stand firm [02:49.84] Like a pillar, I'm I and t-l like manilla [02:52.79] Chorus 2x [03:13.24] This is what it's all about (7x) [03:43.31]