[00:21.06]Sitting at the lakefront working on my next LP
[00:23.52]At 55th and LSD and you will see
[00:26.42]You see something about the water man, it soothes the soul
[00:29.01]Rinses, cleanses, and keeps us all
[00:31.70]I swear without nature I'd go insane
[00:34.20]On these concrete streets, I can't maintain
[00:36.91]Woke up this morning in a vile ass mood
[00:39.85]So I came to the lake to change my attitude
[00:42.32]And my altitude, with a blackened mind
[00:45.11]I'm wondering what made Malcolm smile
[00:47.48]In the midst of hate, and ostracism
[00:50.52]How do people maintain in the optimism?
[00:53.06]Sometimes I think I'm losing mine
[00:54.85]If I ain't writing or producing, I'm one step from losing my mind
[00:58.98]I gotta loosen up and find a way to unwind without no **** and wine
[01:03.75]I'm peeping out the people as they pass me by
[01:06.51]I see a thieving fly flavor and I'm asking for a sign
[01:08.99]Staring at the skyscrapers, scratching the sky
[01:11.76]Blocking out the sunshine, got me asking why
[01:25.30]It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time
[01:27.99]If you need a lift, hold tight, you 'bout to climb
[01:30.78]Keep the elevation for your soul, body, and mind
[01:33.43]The renaissance, the renaissance
[01:36.05]It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time
[01:38.84]Wise words I heard as a youth still in my mind
[01:41.35]Feeling divine, revealing the sign, for healing the blind
[01:44.30]Cause too many cats have been locked or killed in the crime
[01:46.83]Where I live stick-up-kids concealing the nine
[01:49.24]They stealing your shine, front how I live spilling your spine
[01:52.34]Chicken-heads is a dime a dozen willing to grind
[01:54.63]Mad kids, no husbands, there's a million fine
[01:57.27]Through out my area code, it's mass hysteria mode
[01:59.90]Shaken got us feeling like inferior foes
[02:02.57]But no one will legislate myself, my interior grows
[02:05.17]Makes it felt when I deliver my exterior blows
[02:07.90]To any obstacle
[02:09.24]What did you think? I want my pockets full
[02:11.20]Very possible, because this world is filled with lots of jewels
[02:13.83]The best one is the one that last forever
[02:16.05]Cause it's the one you treasure, the principle of pleasure
[02:18.70][Hook x2]
[02:40.47]Through the eyes of the wise, let me paint a picture
[02:43.04]Sands without the Rawls, like the J without the mixer
[02:45.64]We spit the scripts so hot, your ears blister
[02:48.46]That's why you cop a fixture of the all natural elixir
[02:51.09]Combined with The Catalysts makes it hazardous
[02:53.66]To those who think not and want to test the fabulous
[02:56.25]I take you out, then bring you back like Lazarus
[02:58.91]J Sands, Capital D, the strategists
[03:01.87]We using music as an answer to this inner city cancer
[03:04.32]I guess I'm blessed with my chance to advance the
[03:07.14]Hip-hop art, and add my add spark
[03:09.48]The catechist to the catalysts spreading light on the dark
[03:11.92]So we embark on a journey from here to win
[03:14.67]From the land of three rivers to the city of wind
[03:17.37]With the pen, we ascend on air like The Nonce
[03:20.05]With my fellow confidants, continue in the renaissance
[03:32.14]It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time
[03:36.33]If you need a lift, hold tight, you 'bout to climb
[03:39.36]Keep the elevation for your soul, body, and mind
[03:41.76]The renaissance, the renaissance
[03:44.41][Hook x2]