Blind Bard’s Vision

By Akala

Released on February 18, 2018

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[Hook x2]

Why is the story told? What is the teller's mission?

What is the ultimate source of our deepest intuition?

Why does the audience come and why did they listen?

The blind bard's vision

(Verse)

The sweetest siren call, that spans time and distance

The poet speaks the building blocks of our existence

Who said it's master masons that build the base of nations

Without the word there's nothing else, you can't replace it

When all the towers fall, and all the powerful

Kings crush into dust, things left there to rust

It's the word, the word, the word carries on

And our thirst give birth to the search that we on

Seeking solace with myths that promise

If we just give our attention it will astonish it

A bit of politics, splash of the supernatural

Stitched together by syllables, weave a tapestry

That's broad enough to span minds and generations

Still it cannot be touched by much but contemplation

You want to make a statement? Better you write a verse

Want to create a nation? Better recite it first

Preferably epic with no pen, let the mind collect it

Practise it hundreds of times until it's time

Perfected by the time they write it down

They'll doubt that you're real

'Cause we're great at questioning other people's skill

Yet we seek it still, the Mahabharata

Virgil, Milton, Lucretius, the epic of Sundjata

Gilgamesh Committed coffin text, yeah

It's the blind bard we know best

Is it 'cause your word was twinned to empires' wings?

Or that we touched something deep within?

'Cause when you boil it down beyond mythology and God

You find something That is just so human, do you not?

A son in search of a father that he has lost

A father trying to get back to his family at any cost

A woman that's besieged by men with bad intentions

And she does not want to be with them, but they won't accept it

'Cause there's men and gods, the pen and its gob

There's a mind and a mouth that spout where you dare not

The poet sings and speaks from streets to ancient Greece

Defeat, then is what you meet if competing is what you seek Whether the beat or lyre strings

We are leviathans that speak sagas of this great species of hirelings

Posing like we're highest kings

To get as high as wings of God but we do not

Do nothing but try a thing

The poet sees how the falcons sees a view from the balcony

No doubting he Pages are a alchemy

And the magician is politician and prophet

Premonition we got it

Television and pocket couple queens

That will keep us going flowing

Yeah, we eat from poems

If the teacher don't speak, how could we keep on knowing?

What these questions to these answers are

Curses and our blessings

Confessions are just how deaf we are

And obsessed with death, despite all our best attempts

The Odyssean Underworld is the best we're left

The same one from the book of the dead

Who the myths, millennia hasn't put them to bed

Philosophy is not the laws of motion, logic can't explain emotion

So it makes sense, we come up with some other type of notion

A myth is not a lie, it's a disguise from the truth

So the wise can recite to the youth

If the lines in our rhymes are to find any use

It's the tries of our mind to decipher the clues

Give my mind this thing called living

Season the riddims, turn of the earth to announce the beginning Look how we bounce on the riddim

Man could rap about all of the family

Whole of your humanity, whole of the galaxy

You want to talk about cars, that's fine

Yes, you could say it is a chariot

Carried on the wings of the night, even Zeus don't attack the skies

Where the truth in the chapter lies

I don't know, it's just a fact of life

The search of the journey, permanent purgatory

Driven a Finca from Inca to Germany

So what you gonna do? You gonna search?

Or gonna stand on the side and rehearse?

There's finding the time since your birth is so insignificant

There's barely any worth

Yeah, the heroes, faces are thousands

If you listen you will hear what they're shouting

They ain't telling you to listen to the doubting

They're trying to get us ready for the outing

But you would swear poets are mortal


[Bridge]

But we're not the same I assure you

'Cause we make words and portals

26 letters and we will teleport you

We're not the same, I assure you

26 letters and we will teleport you


[Hook x2]

Why is the story told? What is the teller's mission?

What is the ultimate source of our deepest intuition?

Why does the audience come and why did they listen?

The blind bard's vision


[Outro]

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