Shad - I Heard You Had a Voice Like an Angel / Psalm 137 lyrics

I heard you had a voice like an angel I heard a strange tale About a saint that fell Music became jail These bars I hear you rapped/wrapped in em Wove in the beats Like the clothing of sheep Wolves tracks spin em dj's, cd's c-notes g's thrown on d's we'll be king like T.I hope I heard you even sang when you spoke And the emotion you evoked got you choked When your beauty struck a vocal chord broke Boatless dove overboard Look upon the ocean Caught your reflection before the Lord's I heard you had a voice like an angel Strange though You were blinded by the light shining from your own halo fell off sort of like a rainbow when heaven watched your faint glow fade slow I heard you had a voice like an angel… I heard that fame's a k**er that can murder great princes like Kurt Cobain singing Purple Rain From a distance Hope home aint a virtual game Nor this cursed place earth Where the dollars and the karma don't circulate The world's a stage And you know this play well Gee I bet you even know how it ends, pray tell Had a voice like an angel, now you score the drama scenes The comedy's the fact We enact what you want to be Had some old songs still stuck in your memory Distorted though So you sort of re-a**embled melodies And fine-tuning turned 'em into single after single In this industry you built so sinfully simple for You to write cuz, a song is what your life was The destiny of stars is their light must Fight dusk With sparks of brilliance to ignite us and of all the billions of stars You were by far the brightest I heard you had a voice like an angel Now its just a light hush… Now you keep everybody's eyes on charts and schedules And the trends trying to stack gold bars and medals They want vessels void and dark as space Fools wanna make stars instead of music that's smart or special Because art at a level that's real can be harder to peddle Business prefers a market that settles for second rate k** the true artists martyr the rebels That's the system and it's straight from the heart of the devil [See] merchants of dreams Sold to souls eyes-wide shut Pa**in the buck to purchase a pa** to buy stuff Workin' in this circus get hired up To walk over half-knots on a tight rope Tied-up in my gut It's a delicate balance Developin' the talent Into persons that we worship Yo, it's a hell of a challenge I heard you had a voice like an angel And don't really sing no more But you still running the game so If we don't behave like them They call us crazy And if we won't slave for them They call us lazy Lately I've started to see why you hate me Hearin' this voice it must be painful To the ears when for years You had a voice like an angel… If you don't behave like them They call you crazy And if you wont slave for them They call you lazy Well I say… They wanna take your mind Turn it into a prison Lock you inside Then they call that livin Well I say… (x2) I heard you had a voice like an angel. Smile for the camera Smile for the camera While they take your children Smile for the camera While we rape your women Smile for the camera While we make our millions Smile for the camera While we make our buildings Smile for the camera Smile for the camera Smile for the camera