The Offering - Akua Naru

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

What do you have to offer?

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

Lay it at the altar

Uh, I was born an elder in a young world, thus the terror

Seasoned ancestor return, Karmic trial and error

The debt collector, that birth mark in the mirror

Find a record, climb giant steps under the chandelier

laments for real, your golden seal

Heal broken hearts, carried like

Somebody heard Naima whisper up in 'Trane's ear

Life and death lovers hidden trained seers

Know your weapon when the rain clears

Choose this body 'cause the spectrum of the pleasure and the pain fears

That bigger set for this domain to fear

Politics, passionate, poetic, Farrakhan, Shakespeare

Pen the ruckus, ain’t no games here

Young Marie used to sing

When Mama say she can’t hear

She tuned out when you figure it’s time, reclaim still

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

What do you have to offer?

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

Lay it at the altar

National treasure, stable hand fan the flame better

Into the set-up, neater, bigger, love you to the letter

Supreme measures, space and time between eras

Rare phenomenon, prophecy sellers, they ain’t tell us

Warning is foreign to the naked eye

Seven points activate at the base of spines, feed the time

Twenty-two cards waitin' to confide

Mine are savage, confuse twerk for Jamaican whine

Lord, 'member the night the fortune teller died

Mama heard him callin' over mortals, our daughters from the other side

Force of the whisper turned the loud crowd

Made the baby laugh in his bubble bath on a cloud nine

lives hold the song close

Used to hide my palms behind sacred scripts and long chords

Here and now,

Offer it all as you standin' at the crossroad, come on

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

What do you have to offer?

Is you gon' get it right this time?

Is you gon' get it right?

So you gon' get it right this time

Lay it at the altar