Bright moments
Bright moments always come back vivid


The fifth great was epic citywide test pressure
The pre-crack era
Mr Schollmen, what a prick

Attitude matches wardrobe, uglier than sin

This is Bed-Stuy '82

Ninth floor, three tiny rooms, one view
Buck-town, Roosevelt house
They green grass is green, our green grass is brown


Shots rang, my phone wasn't touchtone
A heavy beef in the street, ET had to flee

Gray heavens, good grief
Hungry bellies, bright gold on they teeth


The windows on the Ave look like sad eyes
They fix their sharp gaze on you when you pass by
And if you dare to stand, you can see 'em cry

You can watch 'em scowl, feel 'em prowl

Wall and study every inch about you

Fast math measuring what you amount to
The laughter, the screams
The numeral, the song of psalms, the book of dreams


Ends don't meet where the arms can't reach mean streets
Even when it's free it ain't cheap

On going saga, terminal diagnosis
Basic survival requires super heroics


No space in the budget for a cake
It's when you gotta fly by night to save the day


Crash landings routinely happen
Some survive, others never rise from the ashes
Watching asphalt and observing the Sabbath

Creates an ecstatic and there you have it

From teenage love praying in tongue

Strange fruit, batty boots and native drums
From hence I come, so here we go
Signs and wonders all along the road


Some lies open, some lies close
Some stretchers role with no lies at all

Some riders don't know what they riding for
Hands on the wheel and their mind is gone


Wherever you ride, whatever your name
This raw cold life is a beautiful thing
And we are alive in amazing times

Delicate hearts, diabolical minds

Revelations, hatred, love and war

And more and more and more and more
And more of less than ever before
It's just too much more for your mind to absorb


It's scary like hell but there's no doubt
We can't be alive in no time but now


It's just a sure shot to the heart
It's just a sure shot in the dark

It's just another place in the star
[Incomprehensible]
Life in marvelous time, life in marvelous time


Right, everywhere all over the world
You can feel it, all over the world

Feel it, feel it rise everywhere

It's just a sure shot to the heart

It's just a sure shot in the dark
It's just another place in the star
[Incomprehensible]
Life in marvelous time, life in marvelous time
Now