Saul Williams - Tao Of Now lyrics
Children of the night Only some will star the sky Only believers in d**h will die And fathers must feather the wings of women For the unfeathered ma**es dangle ridiculous Carrying crosses to phalanx filled tombs The future sails silence through blood rivered wombs That ripple with riddles of cows and spoons And births, moons and earth sun-centered at noon And here I stand, court-jestering infinity Fetal fisted for revolution, but open hands birth humility Now, what is the density of an egoless planet? Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings? I'm slouched into sling steps and kangoled with gang reps But my orbit rainbows saturn's rings Mystical eliptical, presto polaris Karmic flamed future when saturn's an Aries And now I'm a fish called father with gills type dizzy Blowing liquid lullabies through the spine of time I'm certain of saturn's rivers and all else is fact So baptize me in the stars and wrap me in nighttime, Moon blue Pupil my sight with orange balls of light And echo my plight through the corridors of metaphor What else are we living for if not to create fiction and rhyme? My purpose is to make my soul rhyme with my mind over matter Minds create matter, minds create fiction, as a matter of fact As if matter were fact, matter is fact So spirit must be fiction Science fiction Art fiction Meta fiction The tao of now is here amongst the living In the voice of children is the tao of now You are the divine reflection of this earth She does not belong to you, no There is no need for your correction All rivers run in the same direction If you're serving the father there's no son without mother Parent bodies discover water bodies and drown Wade me in the water 'til Atlantis is found On the sea floors of self I'm starfish and unbound Heard that name of that mound is stoned mountain Underwater volcanoes erupt water fountains of youth Let's us carnal equation, cancel out wind and truth Swirl me beyond sometimes, drench me water proof Let eves drop forever, rain sunsets on my roof As I sit on the front porch of my sanity Deciphering hambones to Van Gogh this vanity Oiled egos, canvased and framed To be reborn, unborn, unburied, unnamed A reflection through a blood stained gla** window Of souls gone yellow around the edges Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives But let family bring focus out of swamps blossom lotus The muddy water blue daughters of infinity Grant we water bodied Bodhisattva's our serenity As we rise with the tides towards divinity Yes, we rise with the tides towards divinity The muddy water blue daughters of infinity Grant we water bodied Bodhisattva's our serenity As we rise with the tides towards divinity Yes, we rise with the tides towards divinty Yes, we rise with the tides towards divinity Now we rise with the tides towards divinity And we rise with the tides towards divinity 'Cause we rise with the tides towards divinity