Lyrics Overture (with Omari Hardwick).lrc Tank
[id: pshzuebd]
[ar: Tank]
[al: ELEVATION]
[ti: Overture (with Omari Hardwick)]
[length: 03:52]
[00:01.33]I use the mic like a walkie-talkie
[00:03.10]Cali love with a bite of Milwaukee
[00:05.82]DMV in my bloodline, I done start wars with a jabberwocky
[00:09.83]Eye of the tiger, call a nigga Rocky
[00:12.18]The finish line between humble and cocky
[00:14.17]Use verse and rhyme to extend the time for others
[00:16.86]Crumble every clock I see with a twelve followin’ behind my brothers
[00:20.29]Call me the mothership, my music for the mothers
[00:23.33]I been a motherfucker
[00:24.97]Undercover like a super man, make a woman wonder
[00:27.46]Make a hater my lover
[00:29.05]But, equally, I been a rubber band without elasticity
[00:31.93]Been a trap man drastically stuck in the gutter
[00:34.35]A fallen star never to be discovered
[00:36.65]An inmate with a number but orange was never my color
[00:39.91]Double my entendre
[00:41.36]Rap ’til I can sell my bars to the highest sucker
[00:43.97]R&B money wrapped in a young thugger
[00:46.21]Keep my beats on repeat like they stu-stutter
[00:49.28]Pretty on some Ali
[00:51.05]I done become the Thrilla in Manila
[00:52.61]New Jack City on some pain, probably
[00:54.83]Call a brother Duh Duh Duh
[00:56.91]But my train done been wobbly as any other
[00:59.87]Big body truck in the mud
[01:01.49]Or the feet that grew from the concrete
[01:03.29]’Til I’m big as Jigga and the nigga he came up under
[01:06.10]I went from notorious to glorious
[01:08.12]I flew above them storms, wrestlin’ with thunder
[01:10.83]’Til I be one, a Neo-Morpheus
[01:13.29]And by the time I be six I knew I was more than his
[01:16.65]Is what it is, this is how I feel
[01:19.54]Like a one-man force of a nature strong in my mind
[01:22.90]’Til you go on-line orderin’ my kind to savage your shit
[01:26.09]And with them lines I just spit I hope you’re recording this skit
[01:29.82]This ain’t no average shit
[01:31.28]I’m hood-born, a dark form with a candlestick
[01:33.55]I’m rockin’ with the good Lord and His manuscript
[01:35.72]The ghost of the too-poor-to-rock-sandals kid
[01:38.51]And before I could handle all of this
[01:40.22]I was hard to walk a mile in my own shit
[01:42.49]A prodigal smile with a poem losin’ that glow it used to give
[01:45.07]I was two roads diverged, I chose the narrowest
[01:48.55]I done seen them doors close like pharaohs did
[01:51.64]I been the afterparty to my own show, ya dig?
[01:54.81]I just needed to know, can I live?
[01:57.15]Like Hov did way back when
[01:58.80]Then lo and behold, these old wings found some wind
[02:01.78]Dealt with the stings from them arrows I felt within
[02:04.56]And elevated to where them sparrows been
[02:06.78]’Til that became equal with the skies them eagles swim
[02:09.84]But if height reflects how slight life done slipped
[02:12.38]I been right with the lowest of the invalid
[02:14.82]No fight left in my battleship
[02:17.05]A kite with broken ribs
[02:18.26]Bleek Gilliam with a busted lip
[02:20.01]No Mo’ Better Blues, just a permanent bruise where the horn used to fit
[02:23.85]Low like where the throw up is
[02:25.46]Low like a roach’s crib
[02:27.03]Low like slow to get up on the count of ten
[02:29.68]To keep it all the way five hundred, low as your basement, wasted
[02:33.44]Dazed and too confused to find my placement
[02:36.09]Nightmares of degradation
[02:37.52]When I was a kid I used to dream of this kind of graduation
[02:40.65]Now I’m on some Tom Hanks, I done got too big, but
[02:43.69]Still a bad boy gettin’ paid for them toys
[02:46.05]I play station, I give thanks
[02:48.23]And use God’s noise as a celebration
[02:50.23]I’ma sing with that thing for your soul’s masturbation
[02:53.18]I’ma bring enough king to control your manifestation
[02:55.95]And you gon’ scream with anticipation
[02:58.05]While you turn from all the lil’ boy-girls they play on your radio stations
[03:01.97]This man done reappeared when the world is filled with fear and intrepidation
[03:05.42]The screen got the same scene
[03:07.71]It just seems too many Elvises done left the building to believe the motivation
[03:11.41]The people fiendin’ for that old feelin’
[03:13.94]So the big Tank just pulled back into the station
[03:16.76]This time with a blue and red light in the basement
[03:19.62]This that new height we chasin’
[03:21.52]I’m here to serve you with a new found dedication
[03:24.33]Same food for thought through sound, just made it where you can better taste it
[03:27.51]Use what I sing now and never for the best of nations
[03:30.87]And the rest for the ones brown who don’t feel blessed enough to make it
[03:34.02]I done cleaned the mess up, no more cryin’
[03:36.63]Just a brave lion standin’ atop Mount Zion
[03:39.33]I come to you open and naked
[03:41.48]I come to you knowin’ without hesitation
[03:43.35]Fifty thousand waitin’ for my shit
[03:45.29]I’ma give you every last drop of it
[03:47.44]Until we all on the same trip to destination
[03:50.39]Come fuck with it, my elevation
[03:50.97]Year of Release: 2019