Night of the Roundtable

"I think that, uhh – you know...
For the most part, that was that old way of thinking, in that old guard
That 'this music is here, this music is here' – you know
If we take away all the titles of music
You take away that 'this is Rock & Roll,' 'this is Country,'
'This is Blues,' 'this is Jazz,' and we strip it down – it's just the same thing...

And, you know, at its core, it's just about human emotion
You know, it's about passion, it's about pain...
It's about fear, it's about aspiration, you know, 'cause...
You know, we're all basically the same."

"Never in the field of human conflict
Was so much owed by so many to so few"

It took a lifetime to learn how to live
Another lifetime to learn how to give
It took 34 trips around the hot sun to land me here
That's why every ear that hear, understand me clear
I'm not a rapper
I'm like an angel on the mountaintop
The healing power of God is felt in every fountain drop
(Mm-mm... something, something, something...)
{*mumbles*} –– you scared, money

I was not myself last night
In the morning light, I can see the changes showing
(Keep it moving now)
(Uh, uh, keep it going now)
As I lay there on the floor staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing

Our Father, take these wings
Show me a star that'll make me sing
And change lives like Kanye, JAY-Z, André
We can get fly and be free by Monday

My mama paid dues in the church – ha
When it ain't on 'em, they tools in the dirt – ha
{*mumbles*} in the Earth – ah
Uh-uh-ah – Jésus in the church

My grandmother paid dues in the church
And for years, I paid dues in the dirt
Ha, like King --, I --- jewels in the Earth
I cried many tears, I had many fears, I had many fears
Ah, uh... I didn't have many peers
And it {*mumbles*} -- ears
I was not myself last night
In the morning light, I can see the change was showing
(Ha, ha, I keep it going, I keep it moving)
(I keep it moving, I keep it moving now)
(I keep it moving, I gotta keep it moving, ah, ah-ah)

As I lay there on the floor, staring at the door with jaded eyes
Like a child who was always poor, calling out for more
I could feel the hunger growing

Uh-huh, I keep it growing, I gotta keep it moving
Uh, I keep it–
Uh, I keep it–
Uh-uh, uh...