Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Elohim (1972), artist - Saul Williams.
Date of issue: 31.05.1998
Song language: English
Elohim (1972) |
In 1972 my mother was rushed from a James Brown concert in order to give birth |
to me |
My style is black hole |
Most niggas simply sound like earth to me |
If hip-hop were the moon I’d be the first to bleed |
Cyclical sacraments of self for all my peers to read |
I recite the user night the light for you to read by |
Have you floating on cloud nine without you realizing it’s my mind’s sky |
And the ground on which you walk is the tongue with which I talk |
I speak the seas, I root the trees of suburbia and New York |
City streets can never claim me, that’s why I never sound like you |
All y’all niggas claim the streets as if paths through the woods ain’t true |
You better walk your path, you better do the math |
'Cuz your screw face will only make the Buddha laugh |
Even if you know your lessons you don’t know the half |
But don’t take it from me |
Son, take a bath |
I can recite the grass on the hill and memorize the moon |
I know the cloud forms of love by heart |
And have brought tears to the eye of the storm |
My memory banks walk forests and Amazon river banks |
And I scream them into sunsets that echoed in earthquakes |
Shadows have been my spotlight as I monologue the night |
And dialogue with days |
Soliloquies of wind and breeze |
Applauded by sun-rays |
We put language in zoos to observe caged thought |
And toss peanuts and P-Funk at intellect |
And motherfuckers think these are metaphors |
I speak what I see |
All words and worlds are metaphors of ME |
My life was authored by the moon |
Footprints written in soil |
The fountain pen of martian men |
Noveling human toil |
And yes, the soil speaks highly of me |
But earth seeds root me poetry |
And read forests forever through recitation |
Now |
Maybe I’m too serious |
Too little here to matter |
Though I’m riddled with the reason of the sun |
I stand up comet with the audience of lungs |
This body of laughter is it with me or at me? |
Hue more or less |
Human though gender’s mute |
And the punchline has it’s lifeline at it’s root |
I’m a star this life of suburbs I commute |
Make daily runs between the sun and earthly loot |
And raise my children to the height of light and truth |