[Verse 1: R.A.P. Ferreira]

She said, betta betta

Wait, no, that--what--how did she say it?

She said

She said betta betta betta betta

Step on tip tip tip tip tip toe

I pulled the meat out she like

You gon' fit all that in this teeny hole?

I know, i know, i know

TMI: too much info

Thats just how i’m feelin, forrealin' with my kinfolk

Remember, rapping was asking could it all be so simple?

Sitting there grinning mouth full of crab rangoon

I am proof there are some people angst can't consume

And i don’t even eat that but the rhyme fit

I step out the crib like iron giant

All smiles with a view over they heads

Sun Ra said most of 'em walking around already dead

Thats why the gaze avoids the eyes

To make object

At this i object

Abject prospects

And the map is confused for terrain

And the map is confused for brain

And the map is piss-stained

And the map is actually a paper towel with a Hershey squirt

If i was a rapper i'd wake up early for work

I woke up early for work

I woke up early for work

I woke up early for work

[Verse 2: Signor Benedick the Moor]

I woke up yo and you know what i did?

I woke up early and i came for

Something to make a name for

I woke up early and i - i felt something to feel insane for

To feel pain for

And, and, and be rid of all my shame for

You know what, i came--

I came to consider direction

To depict a new reflection

Written in fingerprints on a mirror

Just to hear her

Gaia couldn't be any clearer

You know you gotta water the root, little fish

So i came for a reason

Spreading little indiscriminate treasons no more

Who could truly keep the score

And keep their wits?

Ah, each tally like shackles on their wrists

And fear persists

So i came for

Something to teach me joy

Something to deploy

When time is bleak

Perhaps its dark that i seek

But its a strange fascination

In a strange, fascist nation

And I came for my mother

My father, my siblings, my niggas, my lovers, my--

You know what? i came for my...

Myself

So i woke up early for work

And i came for

[Verse 3: E L U C I D]

I woke up early

I woke up early, I might have went back to sleep

Yo, I woke up early but came late

I got lost in the hours before break

I sat and chewed flowers

Feet submerged in muddy lake

Slake rich, crayfish, bite the head

No I don't know the meaning i just know the feeling

Get up out of my dreads

If stress run the world sweep the leg

If you blessed you should say it

I'm writing from a place of suspended belief

A new conviction, bones and teeth

Reasons got reasons just moments and seasons indulging each

I remind me

Fell inside my hat beneath a key lime tree, indeed

Who is this king of glory?

I'm out getting deeper cups and psyllium husk

I heard this might just free you up

I don't have an iron for the crease

I weaved a way for the world to wear me

Weighted carries, milks and pools, fools

I keep a monolith in my pocket

My posture authoritative and anonymous

How to, raise a free black child south of a lower heaven

Small body big spirit