Life in Marvelous Times

Album: The Ecstatic (2009)
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  • Bright moments

    Bright moments always come back vivid

    The fifth great was epic citywide test pressure
    The pre-crack era!

    Mr. Schollmen, what a prick, attitude matches wardrobe, uglier then sin

    This is Bed Stuy 82'
    9th floor three tiny rooms one view
    Buck-town, Roosevelt house
    They green grass is green
    Our green grass is brown

    Shots rang my phone wasn't touch tone
    A heavy beef in the street
    ET had to flee

    Grey heavens! Good grief!
    Hungry bellies!
    Bright gold on they teeth!

    The windows on the ave look like sad eyes
    They fix their sharp gaze on you when you pass by
    And if you dare to stand, you can see 'em cry

    You can watch em scowl
    Feel them prowl
    Wall and study every inch about you
    Fast math measuring what you amount to

    The laughter, the screams!
    The numeral, the song of Psalms
    The book of dreams!

    Ends don't meet where the arms can't reach
    Mean streets
    Even when its free it ain't cheap
    On going saga, terminal diagnosis
    Basic survival requires super heroics

    No space in the budget for a cake
    It's when you gotta fly by night to save the day

    Crash-landings routinely happen
    Some survive, others never rise from the ashes

    Watching asphalt and observing the Sabbath
    Creates an ecstatic and there you have it

    From teenage love
    Praying in tongue
    Strange fruit, batty boots and native drums

    From hence I come
    So here we go
    Signs and wonders all along the road

    Some lies open
    Some lies close
    Some stretchers role with no lies at all
    Some riders don't know what they riding for

    Hands on the wheel and their mind is gone
    Wherever you ride, whatever your name
    This raw cold life is a beautiful thing

    And we are alive in amazing times
    Delicate hearts, diabolical minds

    Revelations, hatred, love and war
    And more and more and more and more
    And more of less than ever before
    It's just too much more for your mind to absorb

    It's scary like hell, but there's no doubt
    We can't be alive in no time but now!

    It's just another shot to the heart
    It's just a sure shot in the dark
    It's just another place in the stars
    Wonders on every side, life in marvelous times
    Life in marvelous times
    Bey!
    Right, everywhere
    All over the world, you can feel it
    All over the world, feel it
    Spirits rise everywhere
    It's just a sure shot to the heart
    It's just a sure shot in the dark
    It's just another place in the stars
    Wonders on every side, life in marvelous times
    Life in marvelous times
    Now, always Writer/s: Dante Smith, Gilles Bousquet
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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