Own Light (what Hearts Are For) Lyrics - Brother Ali

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 invented 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 worry 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 interchain 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 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 a vessel, I am no more and no less than a man 

Any po-sessions 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 

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 I thank God I'm living 

Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life 

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