Energy by EEMAN Lyrics
[Intro]
All my real ones gonna love this joint
[Verse]
Energy, energy, energy, energy
Focus my mind and my spirits, replenish me
I can keep penning soliloquies
Or I can get to the bottom of issues that’s real to me
I’m on a path from the womb to the tomb (tomb)
Butterfly stages, we change in cocoons
Virtues are fragrant, the sweetest perfumes
I’m South Asian, so there’s elephants in the room
I’m addressing the dress and the foreign taboos
Label us savage, our language uncouth (couth)
Razors to faces to make it so smooth
Do I do this for me or do I do this for you?
Man, I can’t be complacent, adjacent to truth
Say I’m outrageous, you claim that it’s rude
I’ve got an attitude or dramatic mood
The reason you and "Paki youth” had a feud
As deep as it now they don’t appreciate the sound
I’m speaking extra loud because I heard we need to keep it down
Rise and shine, I wake ‘em up when they be sleepin’ now
On my wave, I get my feet wet, never drown
Make sure you look around, there’s so many fishes in the sea
I don’t love my friends as much as I love my enemies
A blessing or a curse, pick your version, it was a gift to me
Past was like a present so it’s time to see the history
Since we were primates, swinging on vines
To times we made wine from grapes
And declined at undefined rates
We’ve developed this mind state of “I’m great and he’s not worthy”
All this jealousy is paralyzing people slowly
Nonetheless, I digress
Give you time to digest, and do your whole due process
Upon this quest… we’ve received but didn’t request
You kick me when I’m down, don't wanna see me at my best
But I refuse to be refuse
Unchained and let loose
Left for dead or lit fuse
The choice up to you, all my youth
I say, we do some shit the proper way
Like cultivate our real estates and watch our dollars propagate
In provinces and states, we play divide and take
You from a different place, I say what difference does it make?
'cause all this discrimination inhibits liberation
And racing racism and over-representation
In the justice systems... isn’t helping our cases
It’s better we preserve our patience
Dying to live like terminal patients
That’s some wisdom you can’t learn from ancients
I say that we take our yearning faces to unearthed spaces
Plant the seed to grow a well-deserving nation
Through perseverance and perspiration
My words can shape-shift, you heard
Free songbirds from cages
When my melanin meets the ghetto sun with three words:
I made it
[Outro]
Hear them sing
All my real ones gonna love this joint
[Verse]
Energy, energy, energy, energy
Focus my mind and my spirits, replenish me
I can keep penning soliloquies
Or I can get to the bottom of issues that’s real to me
I’m on a path from the womb to the tomb (tomb)
Butterfly stages, we change in cocoons
Virtues are fragrant, the sweetest perfumes
I’m South Asian, so there’s elephants in the room
I’m addressing the dress and the foreign taboos
Label us savage, our language uncouth (couth)
Razors to faces to make it so smooth
Do I do this for me or do I do this for you?
Man, I can’t be complacent, adjacent to truth
Say I’m outrageous, you claim that it’s rude
I’ve got an attitude or dramatic mood
The reason you and "Paki youth” had a feud
As deep as it now they don’t appreciate the sound
I’m speaking extra loud because I heard we need to keep it down
Rise and shine, I wake ‘em up when they be sleepin’ now
On my wave, I get my feet wet, never drown
Make sure you look around, there’s so many fishes in the sea
I don’t love my friends as much as I love my enemies
A blessing or a curse, pick your version, it was a gift to me
Past was like a present so it’s time to see the history
Since we were primates, swinging on vines
To times we made wine from grapes
And declined at undefined rates
We’ve developed this mind state of “I’m great and he’s not worthy”
All this jealousy is paralyzing people slowly
Nonetheless, I digress
Give you time to digest, and do your whole due process
Upon this quest… we’ve received but didn’t request
You kick me when I’m down, don't wanna see me at my best
But I refuse to be refuse
Unchained and let loose
Left for dead or lit fuse
The choice up to you, all my youth
I say, we do some shit the proper way
Like cultivate our real estates and watch our dollars propagate
In provinces and states, we play divide and take
You from a different place, I say what difference does it make?
'cause all this discrimination inhibits liberation
And racing racism and over-representation
In the justice systems... isn’t helping our cases
It’s better we preserve our patience
Dying to live like terminal patients
That’s some wisdom you can’t learn from ancients
I say that we take our yearning faces to unearthed spaces
Plant the seed to grow a well-deserving nation
Through perseverance and perspiration
My words can shape-shift, you heard
Free songbirds from cages
When my melanin meets the ghetto sun with three words:
I made it
[Outro]
Hear them sing