Own Light (What Hearts Are For)-Brother Ali

[00:00.00]Own Light （Hearts Are For ）（己的光（内心为了谁））-Brother Ali [00:17.718]You're not using your heart for [00:20.190]What hearts are for [00:21.382]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [00:25.54]I thank god for healing [00:26.454]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:30.566]Thank god for listening listen [00:32.356]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [00:35.908]I thank god for building [00:37.329]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [00:41.449]I thank god I'm living [00:42.929]Sometime I feel like a stranger maybe I ain't from here [00:45.801]World going crazy how could that be unclear [00:48.571]Know that I'm a soldier heart's on my battleground [00:51.317]Sword in the holster had to come back around [00:54.232]I ain't trying to hide away I just had to meditate [00:56.761]I ain't got a lot to say but the ancestors may [00:59.622]Speaking to the whole globe numbers don't occur to me [01:02.79]You can listen solo 'cause you're the whole world to me [01:05.159]I jump in with both feet nothing low key [01:07.303]You can find me where I'm s'posed be where my folks be [01:10.106]If you listen very closely you know who chose me [01:12.873]Nothing that I own owns me and so I'm so free [01:15.483]I remember being hungry needing groceries [01:18.252]Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed [01:21.39]Got a message to the police [01:22.742]You're not using your heart for what hearts are for [01:26.735]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [01:30.446]I thank god for healing [01:31.886]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [01:35.935]Thank god for listening listen [01:37.680]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [01:41.296]I thank god for building [01:42.760]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [01:46.856]I thank god I'm living [01:48.563]Not for one second I believe what you're telling me [01:51.196]I know you invented disease and sell the remedy [01:53.975]Universe is sending me centuries of memories [01:56.705]So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need [01:59.467]I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree [02:02.155]Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies [02:04.714]Ain't worry bout ya threatening me I'm just being honest [02:07.641]I ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left [02:10.386]We just want to make love 'til we wake up [02:12.876]I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness [02:15.652]And you know they want to paint us with the same brush [02:18.392]Wanna interchain us 'til we fill our grave up [02:20.945]Alright okay but when it's all said and it's all done [02:24.41]And I look back at the trophies I won [02:26.481]I will only count one [02:28.824]I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [02:32.228]They've been trying to shut us down our whole life [02:35.915]I thank god for healing [02:37.251]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [02:41.331]Thank god for listening listen [02:43.221]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [02:46.789]I thank god for building [02:48.213]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [02:52.213]I thank god I'm living [02:53.549]And I know who I am [02:54.994]I know whose I am [02:56.426]On your wings I fly [02:57.698]And in your shoes I stand [02:59.234]I'm animated by love I don't move by chance [03:01.938]Any stage I touch or any place I stand [03:04.638]There y'all land living in the world as it is [03:07.350]Cracked vessel I am no more and no less than a man [03:10.729]Any po-sessions that I have are just in my hand [03:13.817]I'm balancing the best that I can [03:15.483]I'm not making no claims but [03:17.738]I'm using my heart for what hearts are for [03:21.660]All the beauty in this whole life uh [03:24.983]I thank god for healing [03:26.271]And you ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [03:30.79]I thank god for listening listen [03:32.125]You've been trying to build me up my whole life [03:35.803]I thank god for building [03:37.258]You ain't got to get me lit I got my own light [03:41.268]I thank god I'm living [03:42.708]Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life