Own Light (What Hearts Are For)

You're not using your heart for, what hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living

Sometime I feel like a stranger

Maybe I ain't from here

World going crazy, how could that be unclear?

Know that I'm a soldier, heart's on my battleground

Sword in the holster, had to come back around

I ain't trying to hide away, I just had to meditate

I ain't got a lot to say, but the ancestors may

Speaking to the whole globe, numbers don't occur to me

You can listen solo 'cause you're the whole world to me

I jump in with both feet, nothing low key

You can find me where I'm s'posed be, where my folks be

If you listen very closely, you know who chose me

Nothing that I own owns me, and so I'm so free

I remember being hungry, needing groceries

Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed

Got a message to the police:

You're not using your heart for, what hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living

Not for one second, I believe what you're telling me

I know you invent the disease and sell the remedy

Universe is sending me centuries of memories

So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need

I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree

Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies

Ain't worried 'bout ya threatening me, I'm just being honest

I ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left

We just want to make love 'til we wake up

I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness

And you know they want to paint us with the same brush

Wanna inter-chain us 'til we fill our grave up

Alright, okay, but when it's all said and it's all done

And I look back at the trophies I've won, I will only count one

I'm using my heart for, what hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living, and I know who I am

I know whose I am

On your wings I fly

And your shoes I stand

I'm animated by love, I don't move by chance

Any stage I touch and any place I stand

There y'all land, living in the world as it is

Cracked vessel, I am

No more and no less than a man

Any possessions that I have are just in my hand

I'm balancing the best that I can

I'm not making no claims but

I'm using my heart for, what hearts are for

All the beauty in this whole life, uh

I thank God for healing

And You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light, light

I thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light, light

I thank God I'm living

Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life, whole life...