Never Fallin' - Living Legends

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Even if I was blindsided by mack trucks

In the side street, in the alley way, in a foreign city

I’d still make it back home

On a highway

No bulletins no street signs, no other cars, no radio, no satellite

I’d still make it back home

Connected to the universe like a string of lights on the holiday

If one’s out doesn’t mean demise of all who roam the stome

Feel the earth char with the fire water and sky under his home under his toes,

under his flows, under his belt

It’s the Brian who sets the tones

I never regret the way canals of birth shot me forth on my feet Not my fins,

I am a man to finish it out

Don’t forget gravity laws

Only thing keeping me from flight

Wings of space, infinite night

Down the spiral not in sight

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Great there is no father

It’s her and her offspring

Nobodys offering help, skin ain’t softening

Acts chopped to the ankles, her babies coughing

Maybe the check will come today, the wait’s exhausting

She’s the pillar so, she can’t be tilted

Give her sons

The feeling as though, they got a million to blow

Need no stilts to reach the stars

Teach the kids to reach with their heads

And they each will be yours

I give a piece of me for her to have a piece of mind

Or a piece of your chicken 'cause it’s ramen all the time

She’s thin and getting scared but she never lets on

Many men will not fall cause their mama’s head strong

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Pick your feet on up

Why don’t you get on up

Lift your spirits up

Damn I know this shit is tough

I flunked in high school

My pops he left me young

I often lost my cool days, I feel my mama’s gun

I lost my only son

When my girl she almost died

Had abortion haunted by a babies eyes

And every reason lies

Cause you know the truth inside

You’re feeling like a coward, like the wrong person died

But still you gotta ride

Let the years pass 'em by

Never really knowing why

The question’s why I’m always high

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Down, down, down

Ever falling down

Look

We slipping and sliding

808 kick riding

Serving rocks, balling, while they conquering and dividing

Teeth glistening shining

Listening to ourselves lying

Believe in a bleeding ego, still trying

Identifying with the why and the whats

Self hating is the scars and the cuts that run deep down

Not giving a fuck behind the sweet sound of the new blues

Rattling the truck from the sun roof to new shoes

Chrome

Neglecting the home

Disrespecting the zone

That Sankofa should of shown us

Looking back before the times that they owned us

But never really owned a damn thing that spirit sounding like

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

I’m hella irresponsible, I’m possibly the cause

Of my subsequent downfall

Now a take a pause and reflect on my karma and laws

I’ve ignored all the signs that could cause

A turn and redirect my preferred

Course of action, before the curse of my actions

The rehabilitation of the baddest on the planet

Will set a mark, a mile stone of progress

The life changing tones of why heart and soul mean the most

Learning voices be the search and exume all my skeletons

A room full of demons where the angel was a prisoner

She’s tortured for the visitors

The listeners who read between the lines

And stay inquisitive to dissect these sentences

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Last night I took a field trip

Kind of bent, hopped a fence

Cut across a playground and laid down in the cemetery

Reflecting on my past, present, and current events

Speech slurring venting to the moon I swear she was answering me

Not literal, but in the spiritual sense

We spoke me, myself, and I, but I wasn’t alone

In fact it felt that picture of a beach with footprints and the sand

You know the poem hanging in grandmama’s home

Where does love come from?

Where does it go when it’s gone?

What takes its place?

And why does that space turn hard as stone?

Another year I am older today

In many ways I’ve grown

But in my head them questions still they roam

Riding the bike she said it’s like cycling in circles

With your eyes closed

No hands blind faith is what she called it man

Said life’s an ocean with a lot of commotion

Once you dive in, yeah it’s deep

But if you could swim it ain’t mattering

Down

Never falling down, down, down

Ever falling down

Down, down, down

Ever falling down

Down