Chorus: Gift of Gab       Expressin what we see and how we comprehend the math    We keep embellishin upon a new uncharted path    So there's enough for everyone we gotta make it last    We gotta make it last..       [Gift of Gab]    As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at    Peace to everyone I know or who I go way back wit    Every sister raisin kids without the help of a dad    Every pimp every mack, every gangsta to jack    Wantin for they children all the things that they never had    Every hustler feedin babies, anybody pro-black    All the brothers handlin business even though shit's hard    Wakin up at five A.M., holdin down three jobs    To my brothers up in college gettin Ph.D's    All my rasta brethern gettin insight from trees    or any other degree, even if you just read    All my people locked down, for your past mistakes    for mental health, see you're concious that your mind is free    Mentally and spiritually, dwellin past the gates    You could change your ways, elevate today    Every black-owned business, keep doin for self    To all recovered alcoholics chillin up in AA    Helpin out the community and spreadin the wealth    Understand that help ain't gonna come from nowhere else    Revolutionaries makin the unjust get dealth wit    head on black people got to meet the task    Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!    And let your light keep shinin and remember the past    By any means necessary, we'll be free at last       Chorus       [Gift of Gab]    Even though anxieties try to pull you down    As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at    Peace to everybody strivin to live right and exact    See your troubles as a blessin and you're homeward bound    Everybody gotta struggle, that's the way of the world          Can't achieve a a garden if you never water your crops    Can't develop biceps if you don't do curls    If you never paid your dues, then you don't get props    Couldn't eat a proper meal without cookin it first    Can't receive a paycheck if you don't do work    When you face adversities, dark clouds won't last    If it wasn't for the rain, then the trees won't grow    If you never study, how do you expect to pass?    When the spring came around, what a sight to bestow    The grasshoppers laid around while the ants did chores    See the cycle keeps moving like a big machine    When the winter came around, he was left outdoors    Evolution of the mind, soul body and being    Sometimes you even gotta learn from OTHER people's mistakes    God'll never put upon you more than you can take    So head on black people got to meet the task    Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!    And let your light keep shinin and remember the past    By any means necessary, we'll be free at last       Chorus