Feather

 
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  Light as a feather when I'm floating through 
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Readin' through the daily news, measurin' the hurt within the golden rule 
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  Centimetres of ether, I'm heatin' the speaker 
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Motivational teacher with words  that burn people 
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  Seein' the headlines lined with discord 
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It's either genocide or the planet in uproar 
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Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice 
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The best laid plans of mice and men are never right 
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  I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon 
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An average Joe who knows what the fuck is goin' on 
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  It's the hope of my thoughts  that I travel upon 
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Fly like an arrow of god  until I'm gone, so I'm 
 

 
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  Driftin' away like a feather in air 
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Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair 
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So, I'm  keepin' it vertical forever elevator 
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Ridin' the escalator to reach somethin' that is greater, so I'm 
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  Driftin' away like a feather in air 
           Ab                         Bbm 
Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair 
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So, I'm  keepin' it vertical forever elevator 
  Ab                          Bbm 
Ridin' the escalator to reach something that is greater 
 

 
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Taking chances, word tap dancin' with wolves 
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In an ice arena out there, deep in the woods of Arizona 
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The sun be high,  life's ironic, ain't it? 
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Trying to be Dalí when I write,  surreal life, I paint it vivid 
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Habitat crazy insane 
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Watchin' propaganda six o'clock news and its saying 
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Cultures clash, poor black folk and white trash 
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They revel in the cyberspace  that might crash, dash 
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  To millennium a million miles of runnin' 
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At the speed of now back, don't return gunnin' 
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Rambo style, gung-ho child gunnin' 
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Ammo blao two times, loud stunnin' (Stunnin') 
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  When I hit ya, lift you off the earth like 
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  Ayo, take you right back to birth 
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  And niggas wonder why,  they might wonder why 
     Ab                       Bbm 
This shit might happen but it does, they go 
 

 
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  Driftin' away like a feather in air 
           Ab                          Bbm 
Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair 
        Db                      Bbm/Eb 
So, I'm  keepin' it vertical forever elevator 
  Ab                          Bbm 
Ridin' the escalator to reach somethin' that is greater, so I'm 
Db                     Bbm/Eb 
  Driftin' away like a feather in air 
           Ab                         Bbm 
Lettin' my soul take me away from the hurt and despair 
       Db                       Bbm/Eb 
So, I'm  keepin' it vertical forever elevator 
  Ab                          Bbm 
Ridin' the escalator to reach something that is greater 
 

 
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Treat you  better than me 'cause that's the heavenly key 
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To unlock  the inner strength where my essence will be 
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It's the  knowledge and self-understanding of the things around me 
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That becomes the wis-dom that I need 
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Livin' this life to the best  of my ability 
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Channelin' energy to my thoughts,  attain symmetry 
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Remember me? Because my prose remain gold 
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I got the gift of gab like them pimps in Kangol 
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It never ends, I keep it rolling like a cypher 
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The first caveman bringin' fire 
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Innovating and higher; to plasma states  I raise the stakes 
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It's  double or nothing in this vacuum space 
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I will, survive, divine  the time to cry 
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Fuck a hold or hide, I'm alive with pride 
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And I  drove the chevy to the levy 
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But the levy was dry,  singin', "This will be the day that I die"