Standing on the shoulders of giants…

Still I seek a grander design

I see them signs... still we trying

Will I reach a time? Still we trying

Looking down, it’s a waste of time, looking up still got ways to climb

Looking down, it’s a waste of time, looking up…

If architecture is frozen music, let our children sing

Intelligent design into their own shrines

And the schools can be the scaffolding

Man I’m baffled in the times that we in castled in

You fastened in? I’m ready now so let’s begin dismantling

School startin’ to test my patience

Teacher what is your name? Miss Education, so…

Let me see your hands up one time…

All the kids in the back of the class

Held back stream never to pass, never do math or fit in

Too busy dreaming to listen, listen

Fathom this, we can be catalyst

I got the candle lit for something cataclysmic

You gotta know your richtigs

Never trust the tactic

When they say dialect don’t fit dialectic so…

We reject all your cookie cutter moulds

The scripts bound in gold, it will not fold

Fuck what we are told and sold

It’s growing old we kicking down the totem pole

Never stick to status quo

Keep your head high, raise your decibels

Never bout the decimals

Where your hands at, go grab what you destined for

[FAUXE]

If you seek you will find

A hundred days colourblind

No more chasing girls all the time

My wings they don’t know to decline

I can take you to see the sun, the moon, the stars…

Reach so high Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Raise the bar for those who came before us

But give me the time of day

I’ll devour the hour

Never cower

My immaculate brain power

Precipitate in rain showers

Hoping this land I plower

Grow way beyond your ivory tower

I worry every day is this future ours?

I know that you waiting

I know it’s frustrating

I know that it takes time…

But I know that…

That I need empathy, it makes sense to me

That the cut-off point cut off curiosity

And there’s a truth embedded in our history

But they twist it up like it’s a mystery

Now I got mandarin meandering through my mental

Thinking about parallels and paths less pushed down

Times I was shushed down, putting the book down

Stand in the corner, my mind at standstill

Express yourself through this 2B pencil

With the thoughts I had in between recess, my knees scratched

I tried to do my best on these tests, I reach back

I tried to do my best on these tests, I detest

Report card saying: boisterous

Questions outside the syllabus

NAPFA test had to prove my speed

As we proceed had to sow the seeds, so

Treat our children like butterflies

I wanna see them all thrive

Let them spread those wings of change

We try to freeze and display instead of fly

So

Go

Grow

Fail

Evolve

Stay

Bold

Prove

Them all

The butterfly effect works forwards too

Metamorphosis starts inside of you and

We were born with the license to dream…

For the time being, everything is not what it seems…