Navajo Rugs - Stalley, De La Soul

Moscan slippers dreaming through this peace pipe

Praying in the dark hoping that I see light

Trynna stay sharp with a dark vision

Gotta couple heathens with me trynna bombard the system

My man just went to jail and brought a gun charge with him

On top of that other felonies

I told him hold his head I’ll make sure he lives through these melodies

I hate to see him trapped, wish these raps could just set him free

Whoever thought selling heart would get you seventeen, that’s seventeen

I mean yesterday was everything if there’s no hope for tomorrow

And money ain’t everything, I can go broke tomorrow

Sometimes I find happiness in a broke down cigar

In an isolated room on this Navajo wall

Mind drifting, smoke disappearing through the wall

I hear the loud voices, that’s my homies calling

Open up the windows, let the angels fall in

As I bob and weave between stars

Learn and dream between Mars

When words are weaved, pictures are painted

Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets

Got so much on my mind, all these thoughts weaving in and out created design

So intricate like hand spun rugs

They say they talking outside

But I hear no love

I feel the shots in my back

But there’s no slugs

I brush the dirt off my shoulders

Wipe away all the mug that’s been slung

They say the sword ain’t as mighty as the tongue

The horns get the attention

But the war starts with the drum

808s and low ends beating on my chest like King Kong

Gorilla warfare, the force here

You could feel it in the song

All the warrior in this gone

I sip Indian style wrapped' in blankets

Smokin' on the bong, trynna find my inner peace

Jugglin' stone, never take it for granted, what the struggle is for

Cuz through that dark hole life is beautiful, like emeralds and gold

There’s diamonds in the dirt, you just gotta dig through some coal

I woke up among the confused, but yawning

The bloodstream came to collect dues this morning

For all the signs we drop, the parachute supplies

Are limited, coated in images

Yet the code of the streets leaves our thoughts with no access

The revenue of colour, all reduced to a blackness

But aside the thought, I can find the calm

That’s why we close our eyes to concentrate

The cons debate, against the pros talking first degree

Murder on the clock, they got time to kill

I’m intricate to be up in it

So I defend every minute, cons hoping for dimes to deal

Perimeters occupied by a few chosen

To take heed to the fact a few in here are posin'

On the laws of lies, attracted to the warm like wool

But don’t let it get pulled over your eyes

Oh, lord