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Your Day (ft. Will Fraker)

from Sleep On It by E. Oks

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(Intro: E. Oks)
Word.
"Atoms get cracked in the blackness of meditation"(Jay Electronica)
Atoms get cracked in the blackness of meditation
Atoms get cracked, At-Atoms get cracked!

(Verse 1: E. Oks)
Back in the place
Rap at a pace
So fast that the flow’s like a smack in the face.
Come on man! Wake up! The time is now!
Yo, dawg? Why you lying down?!
I got beats on bars
But I bet they fell asleep on ours
With your butt in bed
Counting all the sheep on mars
So I guess he didn’t see that
I’m a beast on paws
Buddy bet that I’ma bring it
When the beats on pause.
That’s so true –
But this ain’t the stuff that you’re used to
So go yelling Wolf Gang up the whole crew
Fuck up your Future
Thinking you could beat those Odds
As I reach my claws
To slash his throat
With a rap I wrote
Just for trynna put a leash on ours
And cash our potential,
Insist we adhere to checklists
And pass out credentials.
But you gotta see: I’ve moved past fear
So instead I got out some paper
A can of the spray paint
Then graphed out a stencil
That says, “Add (Ad) Here”…
Cause their billboards are subtracting,
Standards of beauty too distracting
When you’d be best relaxing,
Unraveling the paper machete
That they’ve been plastering
Over your skull, yo, they’ve trapped your dreams
You’re suffocating and the mask it stings,
But you just think it tingles
Cause they know how to mask these things

(Chorus: E. Oks & Will Fraker)
[Will Fraker]
We gotta keep it safe for walking
So keep the doors open now
We gotta keep your mind from blocking
The flows that your heart has found
This is your day.
Unfasten your fastenings
Its happening now, its happening now.
[E. Oks]
Let the fastening pass and the passion sing
Songs tuned to everlasting spring
Sing “grass is green,” ring past the springs,
And falls of all the winners (winters)
We are all beginners
Born to let go
Do no more than echo
Atoms built in suns that scorch the neck slow
On every Eve of a new dawn
Heads tap into the earth’s rotation.
What have we but to move on?

(Verse 2: E. Oks)
All of that negative that’s orbiting your head
Must be torturing
And must make all this space feel cornering…
Until your back is sore,
Backed up at the door your told not to walk through –
You need someone to talk to,
To say, “Fuck what they say to not do!”
I got you.
Leave them deposited at the door,
Man your back is what I’m rapping for.
So unball your fists,
Cause all of thise
Is positive at its core
I’m positive of that...

(Chorus x2)

(Verse 3: E. Oks)
If your mind’s hating on everyone that’s around you
Stop it then.
There’s just as much God in them,
And if you look it in the I (eye)
You’ll find it often stems from self-hate
Cause that negative refuses to be lodged within
But there is never need for “I” in this place,
Don’t get confused because he’s hiding his face
Just put the live and vibrant colors you see through
Your eye in his place.
Try it and wait.
It’s easy to let go, my man, it’s trying to escape!

(Chorus x1)

(Verse 4: E. Oks)
Why do I gotta be rapping this fast
Just to get a pat on the back
Who hates on the slow flow?
But what it matter the rate that I flow yo?
Either way hate bounce back on your Yo-Yo.
Not saying that you have to let go though,
But if not: you’ll be trapped in a Dojo,
Mad by the bad of an act
That they happened to photo.
Cause that’s the paparazzi
Swarming around the positive
That you got to copy,
But then only printing his negatives
When the kid
Got too sloppy.
That’s not the way I wanna live
So to keep it safe for walking
I’m not too poppy,
Cause, man, I may not know Who I Am
But that’s not who I be!

…That being said,
Someone tell Jay Electronica
That my rhyming is tough
And birthed from a firm understanding
Of the minus and plus

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from Sleep On It, released January 25, 2012

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