I am
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I am searching
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I am searching for faith, beauty and hip-hop
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I am searching for all those who died between hip hop and heaven
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And all souls set adrift and free from bedlam
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With headstrong lyrics that rise like smoke from silver incense burners
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I wonder who stole the thunder with the rasping edge
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And who banged for baptisms with butterflies, serpentine roads and sunsets broken by cicadas
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Have we really lost our century in an hour?
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Are we devoured by blind faith in the powers that be?
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Are these words as tense as drawn bow strings?
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Shall we rebuild the tears like sap from rubber trees?
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Answer me!
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Answer me you T.S. Elliots in goose down jackets with your felt tip urban hieroglyphs, spliff smoke, and spray paint
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Answer me you soliloquists with clenched fists 'round the mike
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Answer me you angels in adidas
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Tell me
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Do M.C.'s still howl rhymes into the purple black of midnight?
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Do they still fight to make arrangements with deities courting them with a jangle of gold and silver bangles on their wrist?
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I need yearning voices of mangled passion
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I need rehearsed create those style of faith and fashion
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I'm searching for hip-hop beats, stomping feet to implore the ? ? ringing across the seagulls to muffle the sun
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I'm searching for perfumed cherry blossoms and ?
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You see there will be no toast to the future in the banquet table of ?
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No golden petals weaving a carpet of light
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No hint of arrogance on puckered lips
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No wind-swept islands and dreams of sun-lit silence
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No riot of flowers and beauty magnified through outmost attention
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And no free-style incantations to save the souls of man
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I'm peeling off your straitjacket so you feel the sun my friend
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I want wings, a feather, and booms so we can fly like birds to better lands
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I'm wondering
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I'm wondering how temples are now smokestacks
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I'm up all night in silvery moonlight with palms of ??
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Who stole my afro-pick?
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Who licked my fingertips to sooth scratches from the vinyl groove?
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Has anybody seen faith, beauty and hip hop?
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I have to find faith, beauty and
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Hip hop
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The quest
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| Attica Blues |
