Metaphysical Rap

Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only by love can you make things grow
Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only by love can you make things grow

Sometimes I'm spinning in darkness
Can't see the hand in my face
Spinning, whirling, falling, turning, losing all direction
My mind and spirit gone without a trace

Stop
Wait
Time to think it over
Closed gates
Are all in your mind
Tempt fate
By shutting all behind you
Too late if you don't stop
Now

Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only by love can you make things grow
Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only bby love can you make things grow

Used to be I had to be everything I thought I should
Chin up, head down, frozen in a smile
Always keeping up to date, man but I was living great
Flying along in the very latest style

But somehow I felt my life was packaged on a shelf
Couldn't reach beyond the wall of cellophane
Peering through the plastic wrap I realized it was a trap
Still trying to clear the ether from my brain

And all the while, beneath the style,
Pulling my hand was that little child
Hungry,
Dirty,
Shivering in the dawn
Brown skin, black skin, the beauty of a fawn
She was my mother,
She was my lover,
She was my sister,
All battered and torn
From her heart her voice spoke so clearly
Calling me home to a people reborn
Her voice swelled and grew into a million
Singing, chanting, and calling us back

"Take off the shackles and the chains that entwine you
"Fight for air cause you're sinking fast
"Freedom and justice WILL walk together
"Walk with us cause we're free at last
"Free at last
"Free at last
"Free at last"

Everybody everywhere really ought to see
Only by love can people be free
The killing, the hating and the clutching for more
Can only bring more death to your door
Let's open our hearts and open our hands
Open our minds and reclaim our lands
Let's leave the towers of power to fall
Cause one man's power imprisons us all
Power is for everyone, like water, wind and land
Not one against another but together we must stand

Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only by love can you make things grow
Everybody everywhere really ought to know
Only by love can you make things grow