Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Own Light (What Hearts Are For) , by - Brother Ali. Release date: 04.05.2017
Song language: English
Own Light (What Hearts Are For) |
| You’re not using your heart for |
| What hearts are for |
| They’ve been trying to shut us down our whole life |
| I thank God for healing |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| Thank God for listening, listen |
| You’ve been trying to build me up my whole life |
| I thank God for building |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| I thank God I’m living |
| Sometime I feel like a stranger, maybe I ain’t from here |
| World going crazy, how could that be unclear? |
| Know that I’m a soldier, heart’s are my battleground |
| Sword in the holster, had to come back around |
| I ain’t trying to hide away, I just had to meditate |
| I ain’t got a lot to say but the ancestors may |
| Speaking to the whole globe, numbers don’t occur to me |
| You can listen solo 'cause you’re the whole world to me |
| I jump in with both feet nothing low key |
| You can find me where I’m s’posed be, where my folks be |
| If you listen very closely you know who chose me |
| Nothing that I own owns me and so I’m so free |
| I remember being hungry needing groceries |
| Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed |
| Got a message to the police: |
| You’re not using your heart for what hearts are for |
| They’ve been trying to shut us down our whole life |
| I thank God for healing |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| Thank God for listening, listen |
| You’ve been trying to build me up my whole life |
| I thank God for building |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| I thank God I’m living |
| Not for one second I believe what you’re telling me |
| I know you invented disease and sell the remedy |
| Universe is sending me centuries of memories |
| So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need |
| I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree |
| Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies |
| Ain’t worry bout ya threatening me, I’m just being honest |
| I ain’t buying fear just because it’s all you got left |
| We just want to make love 'til we wake up |
| I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness |
| And you know they want to paint us with the same brush |
| Wanna interchain us 'til we fill our grave up |
| Alright okay but when it’s all said and it’s all done |
| And I look back at the trophies I won |
| I will only count one |
| I’m using my heart for what hearts are for |
| They’ve been trying to shut us down our whole life |
| I thank God for healing |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| Thank God for listening, listen |
| You’ve been trying to build me up my whole life |
| I thank God for building |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| I thank God I’m living |
| And I know who I am |
| I know whose I am |
| On your wings, I fly |
| And in your shoes, I stand |
| I’m animated by love, I don’t move by chance |
| Any stage I touch or any place I stand |
| There y’all land, living in the world as it is |
| Cracked vessel, I am no more and no less than a man |
| Any po-sessions that I have are just in my hand |
| I’m balancing the best that I can |
| I’m not making no claims but |
| I’m using my heart for what hearts are for |
| All the beauty in this whole life (uh) |
| I thank God for healing |
| And You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| I thank God for listening, listen |
| You’ve been trying to build me up my whole life |
| I thank God for building |
| You ain’t got to get me lit, I got my own light |
| I thank God I’m living |
| Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life |