You and I

Written and Performed By Malik I.M. aka Sun Toucha for © ZionHorizon Music Publishing SOCAN

Intro.

Sun Toucha deep breaths (4x)

Verse

You and I = 4ever as One
To see the new horizons
Our hearts and minds imagine
Creating standards to live beyond the desolation
Imprisoned by self-hatred and isolation
Reasons have blossomed
Like leaves on trees
It’s time to breathe life into dead realities
Cuz the new buds of black thought
That have arrived
It’s time to keep in line with the outline

And never stray from the righteous path
The ancestors laid
Never spend life paying a debt
You never really made
Never think about tomorrow
Until you've done something today
Shooting the breeze
Watch the stray words
Start to ricochet away

Time to realize the importance of coming as community
So come
You and I
And redefine what is unity
Determined to be
MORE than inferior
Beyond the boundaries of colour
On our exterior
And breaking all these barriers
Crushing all hysteria
Searching for divine direction
On the interior

And with responsibility navigate through negativity
Beyond the bling bling stunting flossing black and white dependency
In this 21st century, raising our hands in victory
Finding glory in our legacy
That’s been covered in mystery
Forever we’ll be ships without rudders
Cars without steering wheels
In the era of keepin it real
Battlecries of caps getting peeled
It's heaven or hell
With shottas bustin dey tools
We wear the mask
Asking di oppressors to educate us in schools
That's like the blind
Teaching the unblind how to see
Placing the Devil in the position
Of the Almighty
That's like a clown teaching us
How to ve serious
And we wonder why we're forever delirious
Nihilists who don't cherish
Their lives which are precious
Lives of brevity not longevity
As our people just perish
It’s about US: not individual
It’s about US: transcend the physical
It’s about US: one with the spiritual
It’s about US: using the lyrical
It’s about US: conditions stay critical
Coming to a consciousness within you
Moving fwd as the revolution continues.

Chorus.

It’s You/It’s I/It’s Us when we shine/Keep yuh rass outta trouble/Can't afford to fall behind/
It’s You/It’s I/It’s Us when we shine/It's US when we rhyme/It’s Us realign! (2x)

Outro.

Speaking To the Globe, Volume 1/Now you know/Sun Toucha, GQ, and Nomad/Coming with receipts over beats/Chaaa!!!!!