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pg03: Respiration: OKC [Ode to a Classic] co​-​authors: Apocalyptic, LTZ, Addlib & Jabee

from Love, Soul: The Musical Letters Collective, Part 1 by Soul Williams

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Soul Williams
The red sun peeked out the edge of the new skyline
Shining like “okay its ya’ll’s time”
People been passing through the city for way too long
Rogers and Hammerstein for the last time, this is a new song
O-K-C, I say it with stamina
Long road ahead of us, we keep holding the banner up
(Blood Stained)
We eating off manna as we headed to the Promise Land
New Highways and Bridges
Old heads show resistance
Young heads stay insistent
The growth is magnificent
Relentlessly press to shape a whole new significance
Conservative Right-Wing‘s in cahoots with roughnecks
Flex they pecks for respect when they pocket they oil checks
All Red state, Fallon wears like a badge of honor
Slaughtered our Native Fathers for the Almighty Dollar
Casinos keep popping up, Barkley taking shots at us
All because little ol’ we is so popular
You need to put ya stock in us
It aint a whole lot of us
Steadily moving upward so I’m grabbing my binoculars for this ride,
No shade on the city where I reside
Visualize the rise with me, meditate and close your eyes
In the buckle of the Bible Belt we shining like Rhinestones
Grinding like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble til our times gone
We disregard the time zone, my Reflection’s Eternal
Living proof of The Word until the Truth returns
You might see 10 gallons hats, snakeskin boots and wrangler denims
And just a few blocks east white tees and dickeys creased
You could lose ya teeth, we need clues for Peace
No, this aint no time for the usual and suitable
The racial lines and crime rise is indisputable
We slip and slide thru the slime and plow through the bull
New gun laws formed “Open/Carry” is the new solution
But what we gon do when Err body start shooting
We… finally winning and we already losing
With a Church on every corner, we got a clear resolution
Somebody gotta do it and we know who we are
The City needs mouth to mouth and this is CPR

(Hook)
Breathe
Inhale the life rhythm
Oklahoma City keepin' it live, an organism
Breathe
Exhale the negativity
My people if you feel me say OK CITY! (2x)

Apocalyptic
A yo, inhale exhale the city's organism
More than 20 years, was formed inside it's reproductive system
Respiration from the Spirit, city's heart defibrillation
Yo, the city can be gritty, and it needs resuscitation
Oklahoma City knows the pain of loss, a heartbroken
1995, some kids lost their mom in the explosion (Yo)
It's enough to get in cardiac arrest
With poverty and inner-city violence, yes, it is a mess (Check it)
There's still hope just like the lighthouse on the lake
The Son of Righteousness will shine, the skyline illuminates (Yo)
I lost a little homie several weeks ago
His soul escaped his body through the exit of a bullet hole
So, city life is finite, use the time to shine light
Salt upon the Earth so you can hear the truth and find Christ
The Bread of Life is the key to respiration
Oklahoma City look to Jesus, He's our true salvation

(Hook)

LTZ
From the Northside with Love
From the Northside by Blood
Funny thing the first person embrace me was a cuz
73120 if you ain't know
It's some places round here that you can't go
Somewhere in between the stars and being famous
In between the plastic gun and the stainless
In between the ground and where ever Lui Kang is
Kickin it, flippin it younger kids ain't gettin it
My parents probably think I'm out there rappin
But I'm sellin it hand to hand
Out there dappin
Now they looking at me like "Son what happened?"
Only thing I can give em is a late reaction
Rappin in inhaler is all I need
I'm really sick and tired of sayin RIP
So I'm a do everything on these beats
Roll a gotee and red hat just for CP


aDDlib
Breathe out then breathe in
Learning from loses as I catch my second wind
Remain transparent like oxygen
Life sentences spilling out this pen
I die everyday yet I still breathe and inhale
Would rather die now then later won't see me in hell
Looking past the smoke and mirrors what they feeding is stale
Feel the word pretend as if you're reading in Braille
Never claimed to be king no im not the next heir
What I exhale is different a breathe Of fresh air
My mind expands just like my lungs
Hands in movement but the soul is where I write this from
Speak the truth won't bite my tongue
Take a stand like where the mic is hung
Not afraid to pass even though I like this one
After my last breath it's a better life that comes

(Hook)

Jabee
Everywhere I go they say keep it Real G
My reply til kill me
Hoping that they feel me
Filthy
Guilty but I’m Loving every minute
Gifted livin in my city limits
Vision every spitting image
My foot print carved in it
God given
Odd even God image
Hardly a body Godly livin
So I'm raggin with these vacant thoughts
Stay complacent till I make it off
Or make it work
Stay breathing I can feel my city heartbeatin
I write rhyme to it
Call it Divine music
Inclined by how my time’s movin
That's fast pace
Life is a fast race
Gas face for those that don't get it hold my home sacred
So basic how they trace it
I bend move and lace it
Refuse to be complacent
Chose to be evasive
Indelible no erasing...WHAT

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from Love, Soul: The Musical Letters Collective, Part 1, released December 14, 2013

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