Make a Change - Nahko and Medicine For The People, Zella Day

If I make it out alive, I will make a change

If I make it out alive, I will make a change

I need a change, it’s evident

A transformation imminent

A chance for my soul’s intelligence to redefine lines of indifference

I ride past the spirit with the well-scratched pad

Always looking at my poetry for the reasons I had

Never stopped and let someone else take the wheel

Now I’m in the backseat like «what the fuck is real?»

Got to bury the hatchet

Bones, no casket

The dead don’t dance to a liar’s message

So restless

Cross it off my checklist

Poetic warfare, a bear with horse hair

He’s reckless, acts like he’s got a deathwish

True heyoka, tricking the trickster

Laws of nature, loyal creature

Son of the most high, willing to wager my plan

And I’ma stick to it

I’ma ultimately liberate my consciousness

I want the change

(I will make a change)

If I make it out alive, I’ll come out on the other side

If the sacrifice I owe is the reason that I die

And I know this too shall pass, so I put it in the past

And of all the things I fear, it isn’t now and it isn’t here

I’ll make a change

(I will make a change)

And it comes at a cost, well that’s obvious

My list of distractions is infinite

My delusions of grandeur are all equipped

With dark lords, back doors, and some wizard shit

Well I did not know they were gonna choose me

And I oughta take myself more seriously

'Cause what comes through me, no it ain’t no trick

And I know that all of us are born with different gifts, so

Lift yourself from darkness, take a couple steps back

On an abstract attack I fell beneath the cracks

I didn’t come here to drone out and drag my feet

Stand in quicksand, both hands, and accept defeat

I got work to do, let me get back at it

The clock is tickin', I can hear it through the static

Now I’m not being dramatic, enemies don’t sleep

In fact some aren’t human and that’s hard to believe

'Cause I’m such a visual person, my third eye don’t lie

He’s a wise guy inside, even fooled himself twice

Thinking maybe I’m not ready to be leading the way

I mean, fuck, I’m only human, bound to make some mistakes

An earthquake took place within my lifetime of fear

I hear this too shall pass, the beginning is near

I want the change

(I will make a change)

If I make it out alive, I’ll come out on the other side

If the sacrifice I owe is the reason that I die

And I know this too shall pass, so I put it in the past

And of all the things I fear, it isn’t now and it isn’t here

I’ll make a change

(I will make a change)

I wanna walk in righteousness

But I keep tripping over ditches of my selfishness

I wanna pass a fist to a pacifist

I keep beating 'round the bush instead of facing it

So I’m facing it, some gladiator shit

Yeah I’m rippin' over rhythms, yeah I’m healin' it

But it’s non-stop knocks from the mountain tops

To the city block.

To the tanks: stop and block

Another brother got shot dead on the sidewalk

While your cops doing inside jobs and I’m shocked

So my hands are stretched out to the sky

Got some poems in my left and a gun in my right

My eyes’ll cry over bulletproof pride

'Cause I know I didn’t come to make it out alive

And I thrive in the midst of a battle

Front lines, you can see me in the struggle

These are the songs of a walk towards revival

Even brave men can put down their rifles

I got my orders, and I’ma follow them

You can find me kickin' back inside the lion’s den

I’m making friends and amends with some evil men

Gonna bring them in, inject them with the medicine

I’ma do no harm, but I’ma take no shit

And I’m a build a bridge out of the emptiness

And then potentially, well, I’ma live to be

The hardest working bear in the fucking industry

Yeah!

I will make a change

I will make a change

I will make a change