Protocol - El Michels Affair/Black Thought.mp3

[00:01.768][Verse 1: Black Thought]
[00:03.088]Yo, I'm from another planet
[00:04.417]Though currently, I'm stranded here where I see people clearly takin' every day for granted
[00:08.669]Where every time I lift my ship up off the ground, it's landed
[00:11.588]To my disadvantage, though maybe I am but a gambit
[00:14.783]And held to another standard, if I'm completely candid
[00:17.695]I fell in love with the language like a hopeless romantic
[00:20.882]I display the dynamics at play and pray it's organic
[00:23.805]This has been my reality, maybe I'm schizophrenic
[00:27.002]Maybe I'm just a candidate havin' his chip implanted
[00:29.914]Maybe this is a fantasy, maybe I'm disenchanted
[00:32.832]What if they just abandon me? Maybe it's how they planned it
[00:35.767]Crazy there's still a scar on my shoulder where I was branded
[00:38.953]The protocol is overhaul, I am not a know-it-all
[00:42.128]But I need more than motor oil, signage on a broken door
[00:45.059]Said sayonara, au revoir, I'm already spoken for
[00:47.980]Focus on finally doin' somethin' on my own accord
[00:50.629]
[00:50.906][Chorus: Son Little]
[00:51.159]These trees know me
[00:54.352]At ease, I'll forever be
[00:56.477]My soul, you could not keep
[00:59.134]You probably don't know how to read
[01:02.581]These [?]trees know me
[01:05.504]At ease, I'll forever be
[01:08.427]My soul, you could not keep
[01:11.357]You probably don't know how to read
[01:14.007]These [?], they're part of me
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[01:15.861][Verse 2: Black Thought]
[01:15.863]Calling Orson, come in, Orson
[01:16.927]They must be blind as fortune
[01:18.257]To make such major offers and give just a minor portion
[01:21.179]Then die, one of the corpses inside a designer coffin
[01:24.102]We find on Philly's Northside that Susquehanna–Dauphin
[01:27.288]Sometimes they try to soften the blow, but it's not as often
[01:30.210]This life'll have you starvin' and sufferin' from heat exhaustion
[01:33.397]Upon the line, I teeter, it's harder for me to cross it
[01:36.843]Unless the universe take a hold of my hand and force it
[01:39.242]The protocol is overhaul, show me what you zonin' on
[01:42.425]How you gon' get in touch with your spirit when its phone is off?
[01:45.621]How they back you into a corner, then hold that over y'all?
[01:48.531]Then expect me to show this love that wasn't shown to y'all?
[01:51.731]Signage on the closin' doors said, "This ain't even home to y'all"
[01:54.649]Now I see that more and more, so sayonara, au revoir
[01:57.838]Just get me to that pyramid my flyin' saucer floatin' towards
[02:00.483]I'm laser focusin' on doin' somethin' on my own accord
[02:03.414]
[02:03.674][Chorus: Son Little]
[02:03.943]These trees know me
[02:06.076]At ease, I'll forever be
[02:08.724]My soul, you could not keep
[02:11.642]You probably don't know how to read
[02:14.565]These [?] trees know me
[02:18.291]At ease, I'll forever be
[02:20.686]My soul, you could not keep
[02:23.859]You probably don't know how to read
[02:26.522]These [?], they're part of me