This Is For You Original

 
              
 
 
 
 
 
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 Checkin' it out 
 
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 Yo people always come up to me 
 
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 And like "man I want some pushing and shit" 
 
 I wanna hear about you, where you from, where you been 
 
 So I say... 
 
 
 I sprouted in the spring of '80, sail the seas from 
 
 A thrid world home shipwrecked in Indonesia 
 
 Drifted to Virginia, got the cargo like an historian 
 
 Taking it back without Donnie Darko in the delorean 
 
 Learned beatboxing mimicing BGC 
 
 You remember the titans but I never did CTC 
 
 Just public elementary to the PTA college, straight noise 
 
 NWA tapes hidden under beds before Playboys 
 
 '92 went Down Under I'm like E.T. 
 
 Cause no one spoke this language except some dude at the BE 
 
 See we found a bond, it was just an excuse to cut us off 
 
 But you damn right, the only two dudes rapping at the bus stop 
 
 And even though we fronted we still grew to what was right 
 
 Using a busted boombox and half a headphone as a mic 
 
 We all got different roots so we all bust so differently 
 
 I'm proud now I'm a conducter of my own modern symphony 
 
 
 
 Hook x2: Bliss 
 
 
 
 This is for you, you're the reason I wrote this 
 
 You're the reason I stand in the rain and get my clothes wet 
 
 Oh it's just another taste from the bottle 
 
 Oh it's Bliss N Eso's page from the novel 
 
 
 
 verse 2: Bliss 
 
 
 
 We do this music, I can see complete views 
 
 Of who I am, where I stand my feet feels sweet dude 
 
 But I never grew up on sugar and here man the stage is earth 
 
 So fuck taking my history as a fact to the guage my worth 
 
 We birth a child un-aided 
 
 Growing flowers in the pavement so to renew the fallen faded 
 
 Feel this essence I'm calling way through the faces of solemn shaded 
 
 But no one can find it, it's my precious like Golem stated 
 
 I'm lost with my Walkman switched to pill tracks 
 
 Bewildered so I predict the forecast 
 
 I see gulls and yellow browns fall upon the ashfault 
 
 I drive a street sleeper like a bee keeper protecting his last foes 
 
 That contains the essence I found 
 
 It's the heat that we bless in the sound 
 
 Kids with funny chuckles try'na suckle huckleberry 
 
 Your necks with players chains, trying games so it yields acceptance 
 
 And it's the same spark within the childs fusebox 
 
 That lights the way then my crew flocks 
 
 These sticks and stones will never trip these clones 
 
 So we just nit these poems to clothe and fit these homes 
 
 Of the needy, indelible graffiti sokes in 
 
 Then gets buffed the next day, no emotions have hold in 
 
 If you're thirsty there's a well just where you live 
 
 But come with an open mind, bring your cup but not a CIF 
 
 
 
 Hook x2 Bliss 
 
 
 
 verse 3: Eso 
 You see the meaning of life is like that book you read 
 
 Where the chapter is missing (chapter is missing) 
 
 While the future is ours to manifest as we wish 
 
 But you can't change the past cause the apples been bitten 
 
 You see in January I woke to a bed full of roses 
 
 And Febuary wouldn't exist without her closeness 
 
 Suppose it's just March's way on how to start the day 
 
 Let my soul spill and fill half the lake 
 
 Her harmony's the only thing that can make me behave 
 
 Hoping next month grows wings and takes me away 
 
 If you could at least see me dancing on my notepad 
 
 Oblivious of the things I don't have cause 
 
 Music is everywhere, music is life 
 
 To the rythm of the tap drip music is mine 
 
 Music is yours, and you can feel it on tours 
 
 From trains to bus rides, down south to up north 
 
 May the force be with you see this with three fistfuls 
 
 Of poetry with power, life I know it's in the flowers 
 
 It's magic when my minds in orbit 
 
 From here to the end of the year, through July and August 
 
 See as a youngin' hip hop made me want the worlds riches 
 
 It even had me out there calling girls bitches (bitch!) 
 
 But when I found my sign as a mountain goat 
 
 Alone in my zone I built a house of hope 
 
 To sustain the weather in September had some leverage for November 
 
 And the note I gave December when I met her 
 
 From invisible cloaks, crossbows and catapults 
 
 To questions and answers to the problems that we haven't solved 
 
 I sit and dwell and soak up nearly half the curve 
 
 With a bottle for tomorrow as I laugh and burp 
 
 That's me on top of the hill with a heart of dirt 
 
 On a high in the sky with the stars and birds 
 
 Hook x3: Eso and Bliss 
 
 Oh it's just another taste from the bottle 
 
 And I hope this feeling stays till tomorrow