Ocean Song - Talib Kweli, Mela Machinko

I treat my woman like water, I play with her emotions

Got her floatin' that’s until I get her salty like the ocean

She engrossin', she full of mysteries and revelations

It’s ironic, sea level is the highest elevation

She be movin' with the moon cause she move and she in tune

With the universe she bloom like bearded irises in June

She make me swoon, if you’re not careful she will suck you in

You’re piratin' lookin' for that booty but the treasure you discover

Is the mothership, marry for the love of it

You wonderin' why you need a licence from the government?

She the pool you jumpin' in, your neighbours covered in the earth

Three fourths water that’s the length you wanna

She bugging when I’m gone I’m comin' back when I get off the tour

but could the ocean ever divorce the shore?

I stare at her, I see the sun reflectin' cause it mirror her

I’m humble but I never feel inferior, still

Who am I to fight the ocean?

The battle just begun

But the only way to win is if me and the ocean one

When I swim against the current I’m showin' ‘em my pride

But her strength is a deterrent so I’m goin' with the tide

I can’t fight it, no, I can’t fight it, no

I can’t fight it, no, I can’t fight it, no

I can’t fight it, no, I can’t fight it, no

I can’t fight it, no, I try to fight it

She get loud at night, way too loud to listen to me

And so I’m out at night, you know there’s other fish in the sea

Now I’m soundin' like a stowaway, the ocean overwhelmin'

I’m so small, surprised she noticed me

Let’s go away and get a room with a spectacular view

Don’t be a basic chick, focussed on the bag and the shoes

I’m playing favourites, you labourin' so hard that you broke the water

Got all sorts of memories and cured the remedies that you could show your

daughters

Go with me so we can sow the seeds

A gem so rare that they should keep her in the booth with the Mona Lisa

My poetry lives where the sky and the ocean meet

The potency capsizin'

See the ocean spray wetter than a kiss from my lover’s lips

Kiss the mothership, if God the ocean and I’m just a sip

Because of this waterless life, let’s have a baby

You so wavy, Ii’s crazy, now I’m drownin' come and save me

No I can’t fight it

So tired it’s like

And it’s winning when his thirst quenchin'

Don’t fight it, no

Just let it flow

Like the ocean, just let it flow

I’m the ocean, just let it flow