Memories Live-Reflection Eternal

[00:00.00]Memories Live （）-Talib Kweli /Hi -Tek [00:02.50]Yo you know what we got to do man [00:04.310]We need to get a whole CD [00:06.619]Get a collection of all the music [00:08.669]And everything we've ever done [00:15.139]（back sweet memories） [00:20.359]（back sweet memories） [00:25.729]（back sweet memories） [00:32.119]（memories） [00:33.409]Life living in Flat bush and going to house parties [00:35.369]Red lights bumping life is what you make it [00:37.249]Then sorry [00:38.208]In my lifetime ain't done too many things [00:40.68]Better than watching your first son [00:41.758]Put his sentences together [00:43.527]Yo it kinda make me think of way back when [00:45.877]I was the portrait of the artist as a young man [00:48.507]All them teenage dreams of rapping writing rhymes on napkins [00:51.437]Was really visualization [00:52.107]Making this sh*t actually happen [00:53.947]It's like something come through me [00:55.327]That truly just consume me [00:56.617]Speaking through [00:57.07]The voices of the spirits speaking to me [00:58.717]I think back in the day [01:00.27]I absorbed everything like a sponge [01:01.557]Took a plunge into my past to share with my son [01:05.166]（memories） [01:08.975]（back sweet memories） [01:14.685]（back sweet memories） [01:15.665]（memories） [01:16.295]Like thoughts out the back of [01:17.385]My mind going back in some time [01:18.635]Like when you used to cut [01:19.675]And had to go to the back of the line [01:21.415]Look back and you find tracks [01:22.265]That make you relax and recline [01:23.345]Now cats rap about packing a nine when they lacking divine [01:26.14]Inspiration running out of topics of conversation [01:28.194]Well I drop it in the pocket because rock is my occupation [01:31.184]I do it remarkably [01:32.894]Spark up a leaf and possibly you could follow me [01:35.804]Tap into your chi [01:36.984]Utilize your spiritual faculty a [01:38.454]Ccurately use your memory [01:39.524]To help you see clearly then get back to me [01:42.204]Actually nothing's new under the sun [01:43.954]So when life be stressing me my remedy is [01:45.954]（back sweet memories） [01:47.794]Like the faces that are woven in [01:49.664]The fabric of my consciousness [01:50.964]From cities where making 21's a big accomplishment [01:53.584]Like when my people understood their prominence [01:55.543]And my past life visions of the continent [01:57.943]Like the first time I saw KRS live rockin'it [02:00.733]I heard Resurrection by Common Sense [02:02.913]Dominant in my psyche [02:04.383]I chose my direction like Spike Lee [02:06.353]To speak my life through mics and I never take it lightly [02:09.173]It might be something you did to [02:11.203]Bring you down when you were high [02:12.543]But that karma's a b**ch you steady asking God why [02:14.393]Like when my parents first split up yo I was illin' [02:17.53]Seems like some years [02:17.773]They was together for the sake of the children [02:19.963]And I love them for that I don't know if they saw that [02:22.553]So I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:25.123]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:27.573]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:34.903]（back sweet memories sweet memories） [02:45.392]（back sweet memories） [02:50.632]（back） [02:52.42]Like black is beautiful names from the seventies [02:54.271]Let me tap into your energy [02:56.361]Fields of dreams become my property [02:58.261]When I reach my destiny [02:59.441]Like a prophecy especially when I 'm [03:01.481]（back sweet memories） [03:02.401]I got deep into my mind see I got a treasury [03:05.111]That float through my head like a sweet melody [03:07.551]What you telling me [03:08.601]Reflection is a collection of memories [03:09.811]Definitely this is how hip hop was meant to be [03:13.539]Eventually I knew I'd run into Hi-Teknology [03:16.129]It was only a matter of time like centuries [03:18.279]Check the recipe or technique to [03:19.959]How it sound so sweet [03:21.329]I freak with word power my man speak with beats [03:23.399]If I could make it in New York [03:25.269]I figured anywhere I'd make it [03:26.779]Came to Cincinnati linked with Mood and we did Sacred [03:29.249]Hi-Tek beats became my favorite [03:30.819]Hussle on the Side was the cut [03:32.619]We started to put songs together like what [03:34.729]Traveled the world [03:35.879]Came back to the crib and hit the motherland [03:37.679]Yeah this year we put in work and got some other plans [03:40.239]In fact that's where I'll take the fam [03:41.629]When the Reflection joint is done [03:42.769]By the time you hear this [03:43.999]I'll be basking in African sun like wow [03:48.419]Yes we made it we here