Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Pedagogue of Young Gods, artist - Saul Williams. Album song The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 07.07.2008
Record label: FADER Label
Song language: English
Pedagogue of Young Gods |
Are you afraid to have someone believe in you? |
Can you commit to your ideals? |
Even if you think nothing of it, |
are you willing to allow others to think the world of it, |
and of you? |
Pedagogue of Young Gods. |
All slavery ever does is free you. |
All anyone ever does is an example. |
All power is just collective energy. |
To abuse the privilege is to sell your soul |
and that is to rent with the illusion of owning. |
We are the landlords. |
If you misunderstand us, |
you’re dead and deserve your demise. |
Your dominion is your overthrow. |
The controllers are controlled. |
Spread the word, |
it will save you |
and depends on you to be understood. |
There is no school bell, only nursery. |
Our heroes reward us with stars, |
ever-still, ever-moving. |
We sing to ourselves in our cars. |
Music is our sanctuary. |
Anywhere you put it it’s ours. |
Our living voice, |
our living testament. |
We dream aloud, |
we scream and shout. |
Our courage will defeat them. |
Our struggle will unite us. |
Our wisdom is ourselves, |
our resources our own, |
our blood ocean, |
our skin oil. |
We are mountain and waterfall, |
they cannot contain us. |
Their prisons will not restrain us, |
their customs will not un-name us. |
We are what they know in their hearts, |
you guessed it, |
you knew that, |
you felt it, |
you tried to doubt it, |
denied it, |
but you knew it, |
ain’t nobody had to tell you. |
We had them from the start. |
A world apart, a world within, |
ancient and luminous. |
The before before and the hereafter. |
We are the essence of laughter. |
The comforting prayer |
and the gatekeepers |
and the street-sweepers. |
A mountain of ports outside of a city of dreams. |
A bird that prays, yet offers its wingspan to the wind. |
Things are not as they seem. |
We hover above while giving the appearance of scurrying below. |
All is as it should be. |
We are more than we know. |
More than we hoped and dreamed, |
a generation of generators, |
a power source and supply. |
The better we learn to live, |
the better we learn to die. |
Old as anything, |
old as everything, |
we are participants in a ritual |
older than our collective memory, |
a marriage of heart and mind, |
secular and divine. |
All is as it should be. |
Slavery carefully bred us. |
No child of Greece or Rome can behead us. |
We are ahead of our time. |
Slavery was simply a state of mind. |
Hip-hop reminded us of confidence. |
Overcoming now is simply common sense. |
You deserve the ice and the riches of Solomon. |
But don’t let warped values turn you into hollow men. |
Education is the only thing given that cannot be taken. |
Learn to think for yourself, |
analyze the forsaken. |
Pimp your fears, |
surrender to love, |
dance all night when you need to. |
Play this song for a thug, |
let 'em know ain’t no judgment. |
We all hustle and grind, |
any system against us is against the divine. |
But there’s no sense of glory in repenting, |
and repeating, |
their mistakes. |
You have a greater calling. |
Answering it is all it takes. |
Take a second to hear this |
and go back about your day. |
Know that laws don’t govern us, |
we’re governed by what we say. |
What we think, why we think it, how we handle. |
Place no blame, point no fingers, take your aim. |
Shoot to kill. |
The bullshit. |