Amnesia - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Pharoahe Monch]

I woke up to a blindin' light in my face and asked "Where am I?"

An attractive nurse replied "ICU"

I retracted my first response and contemplated my retort, then

Thought to myself "Okay, I see you too"

Philosophical sergeant, war monkey, Caesar

I was seized and suffered head trauma, now I suffer from seizures, wrote

Fuck you in the palm of my hand as a contingency plan

Just to remember how to greet you, Amnesia

I'm sorry, what's your name again? Oh, fuck you

Old man Logan, my memory slips

So I sip Hennessy quick to remеmber my own nostalgia

Rappers get on my nеrves, Fibromyalgia

The methamphetamines mean I'm a method-less recorder

I'm methodist with attention deficit disorder

So please can you forgive me if these words are never said

And trust me that they're there, but they get stuck inside my head when I say

Even when I lost I hear

The sweetness of your charm

I'd never let go again

If I could hold you in my arms, oh

I love you, love you

So if sleep is the cousin of death, then

Naturally naps are the nephews of narcolepsy

Which will inevitably destroy your agility

When being sedentary becomes the son of senility

It's becomin' virtually impossible to cope

When I gargle with the lotion and brush my teeth with the soap

Scope, how I left my cell in the refrigerator

My brain used to contain about a thousand gigs of data

Now I'm watchin' new Al Pacino flicks screaming "Attica! Attica!"

Vexed on the floor doing stretches for my sciatica

Wide awake, staring at Late Night, watching The Roots perform like wait

That's not Alex Haley in Africa?

Fragmented thoughts in a non linear thread

Beautiful sentiments get deferred after the meds

So please, could you forgive me if these words are never said?

But trust me that they're there, but they get stuck inside my head when I say

Even when I lost I hear

The sweetness of your charm

I'd never let go again

If I could hold you in my arms, oh

I love you, love you