Escape - Intellectual

[Intro]

Take me home

[Verse 1]

I been searching for home

I heard that it takes a village to raise a child

But I been searching alone

Turning my days into nights

Just navigating with light from the sky

A voyage of my soul

I’m a nomad, my mama trained me to be

Because there’s no land that’s worth being grated to pieces

I’m going home…

If I could fly

Then I’d fly away

I’d go south of the cold

And land in a land that is warm to my soles

If I could cry

Then I’d cry a lake

And sail on my tears through my fears, after years, into my great escape

[Break]

[Verse 2]

I stand in proxy of the lost and forgotten

Slain, maimed, and shamed

Black flowers who got clipped we say their names

Pour a libation, dampen the pain

They got us out here like vagrants begging for change

I been in the streets ducking danger

Native stranger

Just tryna find my way outta here now

The road gets heavy

Situation’s scary

I been out in the field ducking strays from the vest

Just need a moment to rest

Can I lay my head on your chest

[Instrumental]

[Outro: Nina Simone]

The structure, the cleanliness, the tone, the ... nuances. The implications, the silences, the dynamics: the pianissimos, the fortissimos. All have to deal with sound and music and it's as close to God as I know