Universal Language

By B-Shields

On Story Tellers

Released on December 8, 2012

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Verse 1:

It started when I was just a couple years old

I heard the rhythm of my Father

And it touched my soul

I wanted to do the same thing

And beat the drums

Because every time I heard that rhythm played

I went numb

I wanted to be that man

A musician

Guitar rocking, hip hop talking

Here started my ambition

I started writing lyrics

I wanted to promote peace

Love was delivered

I started my journey out on the streets

I was tired of being bullied

I was tired of seeing hate

I wrote a song called the X Project

In which was aimed to motivate

The kids that were neglected

Who felt rejected

Sad and infected

My goal was to change the world

And I was only 11

I started this journey because of leaders who taught me

Martin, Malcolm, Janis, Jimmy and Ray Charles on the keys

Yuri Kochiyama in the background

Was the person holding Malcolm, when he laid dying on that ground

See these people are a movement

I would have never known who they were

If it wasn’t for this beautiful music

Lyrically inclined with positive outlets

Why do people abuse it

I’m not them, I will not refuse it

Chorus:

This right here is my Sales Pitch

We need to appreciate our Universal Language (2x)

Music is a movement

Music is History

Music can help us face

All of our realities

This right here is my Sales Pitch

We need to appreciate our Universal Language (2x)

(1:22 – 1:45)

Verse 2: (1:55 – 1:09)

Since the Romanticism era

Automatism is at it’s finest

Or is it betrayal in the movement

Like Iscariot after Lions

Now we need to be silent (4:33)

But we keep marching forward

And never stop moving our feet

Music it has power

If you allow to hear the words

That does not mean to just listen to a chorus

Listen to the verse

I know when I’m down

It has an effect

To heal what hurts

Have you noticed

My biggest hobby

Is going to concerts

It relieves the stress

That’s inside of me every single day

It moves my conscious

With the messages the songs convey

But I know Im not the only one

That feels this way

This is the mass effect

After Renditions are played

Music holds medicinal values

It heals the mind body and soul

Other times it takes me on a journey

That I need to go

But this is why I’m here

This is why I’m doing it

It influenced me to make music

Now I’m pursuing it

Chorus:

This right here is my Sales Pitch

We need to appreciate our Universal Language (2x)

Music is a movement

Music is History

Music can help us face

All of our realities

This right here is my Sales Pitch

We need to appreciate our Universal Language (2x)