[Verse 1]

A negative force tests my vital points, now I'm off target

Heartless, treading through troubled waters

Life goals appearing out of order, dreams become slaughtered

Denying what's for artificial pleasure like marijuana

As I bask in the land of the lost

In dual wars with grim thoughts unbalanced

For any challenge I face victory wrapped beneath the fates

'Cause hard times set the pace

Trace my soul and hues of blue

Urging me to stay out of tune

On path to rhythm

[Chorus]

Always search the soul for the rhythm

The rhythm

[Interlude]

All paths lead to me

Adrift on holy waters

Of your former recollections

And now dim reflections

Of the dreamt and the love

Shoved deep into past tense

With a side cast zen

I wait for your remembrance

I wait for you to listen for me

In the suckles, sighs, cries of fresh made brown shaded babes

Plained over ancient chants of the black fisted soldier

And to feel me in the tremors

Under the covers of diasporan

Original lovers

And to see me in the windblown sands of the Sudan

And swift motherland hips and drips

Of sun rays and rain

To know me once again

Rhythm, my thing

[Verse 2]

Vile lifestyles made me gain a thirst for change

So I dug deep inside of self to maintain

On a path to rhythm, peaking past religion

Spiritual frame made my destination, taoism

Vibes from the physical be the mechanism

Clicking like metronome ticks of repetition

I listen to its melodic conventions

Replenish self knowledge hence balance onto peace

Realizing I've kept the beat on path to rhythm

[Chorus]

Always search the soul for the rhythm

The rhythm

[Outro]

Scorch the force that lives. negative in the soul

Grown cold, hold on

Know that the path is never lost, only hidden so

Always search the soul for the rhythm