Blues For The Horn-K'NAAN

[00:00.12]Yes! Yes yes* [00:17.34]In a conservative form [00:19.59]I wanna ask you a few things before I conform [00:26.64]To the popular belief about where I was born [00:35.34]Are they still illin', still killin' poppin' the corn? [00:46.02]How's the horn, how's the love wavin' the ocean morn'? [00:56.79]How 'bout the young, do they still possess the poetry tongue? [01:26.01]And do they still grief [? ] like the depth of the lung? [02:44.19]How's the nomad, did the herd graze well this year? [02:47.34]From the news to what I know the growin' gap ain't clear [02:50.61]How's the earth, how 'bout the stars and the [? ] [02:53.85]Do you still await on change like a new moon's birth? [02:56.94]Does it still flood ancient wisdom parallel with blur? [03:00.27]Do you still see the pain [? ] deep? [03:03.36]Or did you fight off the plight of the colonized mind? [03:06.54]What of the rainy season, do the kids still bury seeds? [03:09.81]And get taken with uncertainty like me scared of leavin? ' [03:12.96]How are the poets, the women and the orphans torn? [03:16.14]I miss 'em all like, old opportunities gone [03:19.20]What of the elders, story tellers in abandoned homes [03:22.53]Miss 'em all like, childhood, reminisceful songs [03:25.86]Disputes, do they still settle 'em by bloodying your shoes? [03:29.07]Fist rules, rather finger equipped with sick tools [03:32.10]What of the wind, I recall it was serenity's end [03:35.34]When the breeze would come and the trees would bend [03:38.64]And the people would say "look what it leads with sin". [03:41.94]And the air was violent and our care was silent [03:45.03]And the only law we [? ] was a pair of tyrants [03:48.06]Man you know, this is why I'm down in deep indigo [03:51.30]And I sleep really poor, on the circumstance floor [03:54.48]Anyway, how's stress, does it still rule your chest? [03:57.66]Do [? ] still rape baby girls without breasts? [04:00.84]How are moms, are they still screaming "put away the arms"? [04:04.14]And against the dispossession of their family-owned farms [04:07.44]How are the many rivers and the lakes and the seas [04:10.59]Are they still angry with us for our poisonous deeds [04:13.77]How are the many rivers and the lakes and the seas [04:16.86]Are they still angry, at Africa [04:41.91]So who's dead and who's alive, did the raids multiply? [04:45.12]Did the poor fight the draught with their minimum supply? [04:48.30]Did the warlords abort the wars and force a part of the peace to pork? [04:53.10]To promote disease and easening 'creased divorce? [04:56.49]What of police and courts, are they still heatin' forests? [04:59.64]Leaking pores and cheatedly to the bleeding corpse [05:02.82]What of the kind and good, can they still, laugh intensely [05:05.88]Like the, mind and word or is it, innocent slaughters by way the, iron stood [05:10.80]And what of the playwrights, reflection in the scapes of great sights [05:14.19]Revolution from power's the writings of brave fights [05:17.40]Despite the legendry that you hear we left by [05:20.22]I head with refuges and niggers they **** right, and [05:23.85]Don't you play soccer by the ocean front? [05:26.58]In America, I shovel the snow while I'm smoking blunts [05:29.85]You mean to tell me that you out there still totin' guns? [05:32.94]Blow incense of the hardened hardly copin' moms [05:36.33]Damn you and circumstance too I can't stand you [05:39.27]You make a mockery of our struggle [? ] with plans too [05:42.63]And I swear to god I wish you helped [? ] back/beck? too [05:45.90]And I caressed the Europeans who instigated your words [05:49.02]And I curse the Russians who impregnated the [? ] they call birth and hurts 'cause you never wake and see the death snake [05:55.32]It's like the conflict of self, submerged in satanic hate [05:58.53]Remember [? ] walking back and hide [? ] from school [06:01.86]Bare feet, the hot sand, massaging our feet is [? ] [06:05.13]'Cause now my mother slips on the ice and her back is weak. [06:08.28]And I feel like a failure, a mute in the age of speech, [06:11.55]I said I feel like a failure, a mute in the age of speech, [06:14.58]Man I feel like a failure, a mute in the age of speech.