Released on September 3, 2008

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[Intro]

This is eloquent elephants [conceived on Swellendam??]

Actual outselling it even with no disco instrument master

Or market genius

The meanest punk you can't see us

Walk with these leaders off of these meters

Talk with these heaters, watch the crowd pleaser

Stop, I might beat ya

[Kiss the booth dudes rule??] to the grass root

You can test this God blesser

It's infinite excellent, it's about that time my peoples


[Hook]

Your story ain't over

Pass the baton and I'ma run, run, run, run, run

The win ain't given to the swift no more

You better learn on the witnesses how to endure

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

To pass the baton so the story don't stop

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

And pass the baton so the story don't stop


[Verse 1]

You can call it staying power, I call it a promise

On the hoods of my neighbors, Journey and Don Baker

Blood of ancestors race through my veins to

Live out the legacy they whisper to me

And you can hear it in my hunger

I am much more than a one-hit wonder

Song-birthing thunder, swinging from the bleachers

Go and it's gone

Let me catch you daydreaming in center field, it's on

Bat lefty, the pride of Ms. Petty

I ride like redcoats that comin' to steal my quotes

And won't let the industry change me

Swear by [northeast?] on the grave of Gramma Mamie

Promise pine trees that line the streets that made me

[Stop my mouth??] is the name that saved me

That's on Africa, South Central, and West Cov

I swear by this dirty Cali air


[Hook]

Your story ain't over

Pass the baton and I'ma run, run, run, run, run

The win ain't given to the swift no more

You better learn on the witnesses how to endure

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

To pass the baton so the story don't stop

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

And pass the baton so the story don't stop


[Verse 2]

This is granddad's taxi cab, 311 Taylor Street

[?] between Jefferson and Normandy

Great grandmamma being one fourth Cherokee

DC and Fort Worth reppin' Southern Cali

Since middle passage morphed to battle rappin'

Homie it's what happens when you listen to the captain

I swear, names of first-century martyrs

God put their stories in the stars above us

Vision gets blurry that's them singing they love us

You live among us 'cause you were one of us

Swear heaven discussed us since Exodus

Pier line of heroes, please don't disgust us

This is what I swear by, hands in the air by

Time to be [hipster swing at y'all seems??]

Listen watch focus, I'm tired of the games

Swear by God's Son, there is no higher name


[Hook]

Your story ain't over

Pass the baton and I'ma run, run, run, run, run

The win ain't given to the swift no more

You better learn on the witnesses how to endure

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

To pass the baton so the story don't stop

You better run, run, run, run

Until your heart stops

And pass the baton so the story don't stop