DNA - Saul Williams

Son, we got you programmed like a beat

When I press snare, yo, guard your grill, press kick, you move your feet

You can’t compete

I got my hydrants parked on every street

I’m federal nigga, son of sun, come close and feel the heat

I am the streets

The white lines only separate me from me

You hydroplane in false god’s name and still crash into me

Sign and tree

Mountainside;

guard rail;

into the sea

They thought they stole you from my arms then carried you to me

Here’s the key:

DNA encoded in a beat

White rocks in a vial, nigga, ain’t got nothin' on me

Bitch I’m free

Ask these editors at MTV

Far as they know, they’re publishing some new school poetry

Let it be

Cause even that will do to turn the key

Doorways into other worlds, the truth shall set you free

You are me

I am you, but also I am he

Shepherd of a bastard flock that grazes in the streets

Feel the beat

Nod your head, lean back, yo, touch your feet

Let me see you pop that thing right there girl in your seat

Feel the heat

Count this page amongst your whitest sheets

Comfort in my every word, slide under, countless sheep

Hail Mary, Mother of God

Got the whole host of angels shuffling in my iPod

Niggas learned to raise their voices when I lowered my rod

Staff of Moses, pharaoh knows it, son, my word is my bond

Tune my heart with mind

Speak my nature, divine

Called this shit into existence back in '79

With the future in my pocket tightly gripped like a nine

Keep my finger on the trigger waitin' for the right time

Ancient niggas align

Path of cosmic design

Blood of kings cause Saturn’s rings, don’t need no diamonds to shine

Yes, the reason for the season, ornamented, divine

Coded language of the mystics with my fist in the sky

Keep your head up

We represent the real, my nigga, dead up

Book of the Dead, history bled, this nigga fed up

Led us to despair, some into prayer, and they won’t let up

Until they got us worshiping them false gods instead of

The realness

God of the streets my niggas feel this

We nod our heads and worship through beats

Go ahead and kneel

It’s the love that makes the cipher complete

And it’s displayed through the way the bass line marries the beat

Hail Mary, Mother of God

Got the whole host of angels shuffling in my iPod

Niggas learned to raise their voices when I lowered my rod

Staff of Moses, pharaoh knows it, son, my word is my bond

Tune my heart with mind

Speak my nature, divine

Called this shit into existence back in sev-sev-sev-sev-sev

With the future in my pocket tightly gripped like a nine

Keep my finger on the trigger waiting for the right time

Ancient niggas align

Path of cosmic design

Blood of kings cause Saturn’s rings, don’t need no diamonds to shine

Yes, the reason for the season, ornamented, divine

Coded language of the mystics with my fist in the sky

Keep your head up