Raised To Be Lowered Lyrics - Saul Williams

To manifest your dreams before you manifest your fears 

To navigate beyond the treachery of self-despair 

To find the balance between all you sense and all you see 

To find the patience and the strength it takes to let it be 

To stand amongst the crowd and have the strength to hold your own 

To throw away the pen and pad and simply be the poem 

To rise above hatred to love through seeming contradiction 

To seldom take a side and learn to compliment the friction 

To bring about the change within that we can't live without 

To shift and rearrange ideals and learn to deal with doubt 

To voice the victory and unlearn ways of self-defeat 

To learn the value of, "Yo, fuck the words, just ride the beat" 

To leave the comfort zones of all you know to all you feel 

To step beyond the void and realize the unknown is real 

To reimagine every obstacle as just means 

Of honing craft and learn to laugh at failures funny dream 

There has to be some other way to stop the fight 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

Each day we sing and pray for guidance through the night 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

To not allow the worshipers to take up all the space 

To dance at funerals and grieve when true love shows it's face 

To meditate upon the lesser things like hair and nails 

To find new meaning in your freedom when your freedom kills 

To walk the runway on the one day when you've lost your stride 

To show your face when you feel more inclined to run and hide 

To keep it gutter when you utter, "No, it won't stop" 

Until the ones that point their guns at get got 

You're gonna get got, let these niggas get got 

Lying on the blacktop you're lying on the have not 

You're gonna get got, get popped, get cocked 

Let these niggas get got, let these niggas get got 

There has to be some other way to stop the fight 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

Each day we sing and pray for guidance through the night 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

I was raised to be lowered 

Was I raised to be lowered? 

Hallelujah, all these other suckas make me sick 

Inshallah we've come this far, the past can suck my dick 

Blessed be the virgin especially if she's nice and thick 

May your first time be full of grace respect and not a trick 

First communion, sacred as the day you were conceived 

Born in sin? Nah, think again, repent and disbelieve 

Heaven is between your thighs there lies the trick, deceived 

Holy blood shed once a month until you nurture seed 

Was I raised to be lower? 

Was I raised to be lower? 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower? 

(Was I raised?) 

Was I raised to be lower?