Oddisee - Umoja lyrics

[Verse 1] Listen Could have made a baby mom out of ya' but figured wife was better I wrote Eclipse for you instead of writing letters You held me down through my endeavors and in turn We gained experience through rotten weather And we learned that above this fog is cloud 9 Visibility's low but I don't let it cloud mine I see you, but this isn't Pandora But fight for your man and I'll fight for ya' Cause in the meantime we keep peace and order Plant food for thought keep our seed watered Like many before us we could play this solo But we make a better chorus because we make great music (Together) An imperfect harmony, couple scars but we're durable like mahagony And over the years it may crack and splinter When it's colder than last year's winter But we hold it (Together) Like our lives depended on it No fluff built this with the proper components That's why, why, why, why, why, why, why... [Chorus] Together Together [Verse 2] Uh-huh, what's unity without family, right? Pops in a cemetary, brother's in the military Mama's ain't got a mister, and I got 5 sisters Only two I'm not in contact with, no grudges Man I'm too old to be on that ish Still love 'em and if you're listenin' I hope life treatin' you well And your thirst for success too strong for you to fail Lesson learned from my fam in fact The very thing that helped me make it through hell and back And I'm cool, how fire gunna burn the sun? Don't be a fool, I learned what resilient meant because of you And (together) we continue to make it through Cancer, mental illness, diabetes, and who Knows what else but I tell you what else we can do Raise our kids healthier and wiser but we gotta do it (Together) For Dillain, Octy, and Ren Ren All my little fam, a better future's within them, yeah [Chorus] [Verse 3] Yo, I ain't even gotta know you to show you love Cause nowadays even a complete stranger could be your blood So I treat everyone like a cous' on GP Until your attitude switch from love to bleep me Everybody and their mama from the street But when it need improvements they forget it completely How you gonna make a child and not raise him? Tell me, can you love your God and not praise him? Same goes for your offspring or it fall on Me to make everything alright when it's all wrong Call on me, we share a common enemy Inner turmoil from not knowing our true identity Turn your backs on the exact ones we should bond with I got your back young we need action to make progress (Together) We can conquer any nonsense Invest in one another our people shall profit Let's start it [Chorus]