RIGHT ABOUT NOW

The title just seemed to be what I needed for this entry. Some of you may recognize it others well you are just missing out. Well anyway this is just to let everyone know where I am right about now.

Today I am free in mind, body, and spirit. I feel liberated and affirmed. A powerful wave has washed over me and I am happy. My eyes are wide open again and my energy is level. This is in deed a good day. I have been listening to positive yet insightful music. I believe it is time for me to extend my energy out into the world and put it to use. A wise man once told that I had a gift and once I stopped running it would set me on fire, well I am thinking the time is now.

My life is good and it is time to do good.

"Get by" Talib Kweli

[Talib]

Yeah.. my Lord.. yeah

 

[Verse 1: Talib]

We sell crack to our own out the back of our homes

We smell the musk of the dusk in the crack of the dawn

We go through episodes too like "Attack of the Clones"

Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

We commute to computers

Spirits stay mute while your egos spread rumors

We survivalists, turned to consumers

Just to get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

Ask me why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor

I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer

Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself, with no help

I think about her struggle and I find the strength in myself

These words, melt in my mouth

They hot, like the jail cell in the South

Before my nigga Core bailed me out

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky

with the window of the red eye

Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, "Livin' to Let Die"

 

[Chorus: Background singers]

This morning, I woke up

Feeling brand new I jumped up

Feeling my highs, and my lows

In my soul, and my goals

Just to stop smokin, and stop drinkin

And I've been thinkin - I got my reasons

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

 

[Talib and background singers]

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by by by by by by)

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

 

[Verse 2: Talib]

We keep it gangster say "fo shizzle", "fo sheezy" and "stayin crunk"

its easy to "pull a breezy", "smoke trees", and "we stay drunk"

Yo, I activism - attackin the system, the blacks and latins in prison

Numbers of prison they victim lackin in the vision

Shit and all they got is rappin to listen to

I let them know we missin you, the love is unconditional

Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable

Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin you

Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?

Just to get by, to get fly

The TV got us reachin for stars

Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts

Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers

Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father

They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drugs

When, all you really need is love

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

Our parents sing like John Lennon, "Imagine all the people", watch

we rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatle drop

 

[Chorus: Background singers]

This morning, I woke up

Feeling brand new and I jumped up

Feeling my high's, and my low's

In my soul, and my goals

Just to stop smoking, and stop drinking

And I've been thinking - I've got my reasons

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

 

[Talib: repeat 2X - with background singers]

Yo yo yo yo, yo

Some people cry,and some people try

Just to get by, for a piece of the pie

You love to eat and get high

We decieve when we lie, and we keepin it fly

 

Yo yo yo yo, yo

When, the people decide, to keep a disguise

Can't see the eyes, see the evil inside

But there's people you find

Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin the signs yo yo yo yo yo