Brother Ali Album

Brothers and sisters
The world we share is filled with such despair
And such pain

We're a people at odds with our very own selves
The rich neglect the poor
The young resent the old
We're divided by race, divided by religion

Our politicians rob us and our leaders fail us
I think it's safe to say that we are our only hope

Our speaker tonight is a soldier in the war for love
He carries with him a message of true hope and true peace
I pray that you will listen with open hearts and open minds
Brothers and sisters
Put your hands together and welcome Brother Ali

Hit me hard, now
Ladies and gentlemen, you made the right choice this evening

If you know me, you know I
Love my family love my God
Before I knew either I loved my art
So I'm married to the pen till death do us part
Rock hard with all my heart

College broads call me avant garde
Probably 'cause I'm all off the chart
Only thing poppy about me
Is what my Puerto Rican mami call me when she on me

And the raw me is all I let y'all see
I believe I rock it properly
Obviously a lot of y'all agree
Remind me, what the fuck can stop Ali?

Only me as far as I can see
Line 3 of "My Philosophy" by BDP
It apply to me

I'm just the guy to lead a crew
That means the true people who believe in you
And hold you down and do what they need to do

Street Preacher
Say you don't believe what these people teach
Well me neither
He who follows his dream is deemed leader
The freedom fighter meets the peace keeper

See me creeping up in the pulpit
With a full clip fit to speak to the people
May I suggest you just believe dude?
Everything he speak on, really true
He's proved he would never mislead you
Or treat you as nothing less than equal

That's why they call me Brother Ali, too
The feeling always seems to bleed through
No quitting I kill it until the beats through
No kidding I'm real in everything we do

Rap beef bullshit so see through
They don't like the hoops they got to leap through
So they turn on each other like the weak do
Your little teeth chew meat, fool me too

I came here to turn the party out
Y'all know just what I'm all about
My crew throw down without a doubt
We here let me hear you holler out

I came here to turn the party out
Y'all know just what I'm all about
My crew throw down without a doubt
We here let me hear you holler out

Rest assured I'm the best to do it in my neck of the woods
Hell yes I'm good
You can give me any test and I'll prove it no question
Let this be a lesson to you

When a superior send a message through the air waves
Your way, fool, just accept it
And consider it a blessing
I won't rest till the moment they press play
This jam come down and cave your chest in

There's a couple more things y'all have to know
Y'all been violating the rapper code
Can't just walk around here acting bold
Got to earn respect to brag and boast

Skills get you that not swag and clothes
Chin might get tapped, I crack your nose
Fall back before y'all collapse
Me, I'm an artist all a y'all are acts

That's why my heart bleed all on the track
Tell me what the fuck's wrong with that
Y'all foreplaying I'm raw dogging that
I lead the way 'cause y'all lost the path
This dialogue is all about the facts
That's why my stories are hard to match
Never been afraid at all, follow that

I came here to turn the party out
Y'all know just what I'm all about
My crew throw down without a doubt
We here let me hear you holler out

I came here to turn the party out
Y'all know just what I'm all about
My crew throw down without a doubt
We here let me hear you holler out

Preacher in here this evening
Let me see your hands if you believe him
I don't know but I got this feeling
These people need some healing

And there just so few real ones
I got just what you're seeking
That giant can't keep sleeping
Wake up and touch that freedom

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Frigid frozen Minnesota
Chip on his shoulder
Sick sleeping on a pissy sofa
Unwanted visitor in a different culture
Missing home and he cant go their civil warin'

Listen solider forget getting over
Prison state around the corner homeless is even closer
Kids with similar skin color still don't even want ya
Spit and insult ya 'cause they have been here longer

He leave his crib he guaranteed the pigs approach ya
Where ya going where ya from any weapons on ya?
Your family is stressed out your getting older
You don't live the way they did back in Somalia

It's extra difficult to be a daughter
Trying to keep it modest with the sinners all around you
Wear the wrong garment your parents get an ulcer
If you wrap it up the other children picking on you

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

Holidays and you know what the business is
You get two birthdays and two Christmases
Older you get you resent how sick it is
They're trying to cover their guilt with the gifts they give

Bounce from his house to her house
Too bad that marriage didn't work out
Now you don't have a your house
Daddy fighting mommy they both tell me they love me
If I get to close to one the other one start acting funny

Ma went and had a baby with a different dad
You act happy to please 'em but you really sad
Seeing first hand that family that you will never have
Plus you ain't no real brother, you're just a half

Got to pick up the pieces and move on
Bedtime stories and greet them on the phone
Live in two houses and neither one is home
Wishing you were grown have the freedom to get gone

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

Daddy was a preacher
Mama was a Sunday school teacher
Big brother a football squad leader
Now far be it for you to disappoint or displease them

You're just being what you feel you see in
That mirror every time you peer in
Swallow the tears inside that empty feeling
Her boy terrified to let the world in
He has girlfriends but doesn't want a girlfriend

He retreats inside himself
Where he lives life itself in secret
Daddy says people go to hell for being
What he is and he certainly believes 'em

Cause there ain't no flame that can blaze enough
To trump being hated for the way you love
And cry yourself to sleep and hate waking up
Its a cold world y'all, shame on us

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
Tip-toeing on a tight rope
Holding on for survival
Nobody to blame this is just how it goes

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You say
I made you fall in love with me
Wish I could make you fall in love with you
You believe in the magic that us could be
And what that you and I means one can do

Every instinct you had said run from me
That this new found touch is uncomfortable
And to truly stand naked in front of me yourself
Well that there matter is something new

I take no pride knowing
That you avoid the mirror to shun what you despise
Never knew your beauty you came here with
For the first time you caught your reflection in my eyes

Never you mind what I see in you
Grow because you're beautiful, not because I need you to
Grow till you outstretch every single piece of you
Heaven will see you through but you gotta believe it's true

Go write your story
Even if in the end you might outgrow me
I'll always treasure the chapter that was mine
I twist through time with a smile knowing you're free

Puppy love is real to a puppy
I still want to feel you touch me
I'm not saying leave me
Please just be free
I love you so much
I don't want you to need me

Puppy love's real to a puppy
I still want to feel you up under me
I'm not saying leave me
Please just be free
I love you so much
I don't want you to need me

The sky all alone is glorious
We behold it but we can't hold it up
When God says "That's it" and hits the switch
It'll all come tumbling down when it's bored with us

Persuade you in all your radiance
I can please you but I can't save you, sis
I adore you and might even open up
But even I can't love you enough for both of us

Can't hold you close enough
Can't enter the holes you boarded up
Close your eyes, concentrate on my voice
Want to make your love for me pure?
Make it a choice

Puppy love is real to a puppy
I still want to feel you touch me
I'm not saying leave me
Please just be free
I love you so much
I don't want you to need me

Puppy love's real to a puppy
I still want to feel you up under me
I'm not saying leave me
Please just be free
I love you so much
I don't want you to need me

The sky is there to behold
You just want to be held when you're cold
Just grow, stretch out your soul
And if you still want me, I'll watch you grow old

The sky is there to behold
You just want to be held when you're cold
Just grow, stretch out your soul
And if you still want me, I'll watch you grow old

The sky is there to behold
You just want to be held when you're cold
Just grow, stretch out your soul
And if you still want me, I'll watch you grow old

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