Bright moments   Bright moments always come back vivid      The fifth great was epic citywide test pressure   The pre-crack era   Mr Schollmen, what a prick   Attitude matches wardrobe, uglier than sin      This is Bed-Stuy '82   Ninth floor, three tiny rooms, one view   Buck-town, Roosevelt house   They green grass is green, our green grass is brown      Shots rang, my phone wasn't touchtone   A heavy beef in the street, ET had to flee   Gray heavens, good grief   Hungry bellies, bright gold on they teeth      The windows on the Ave look like sad eyes   They fix their sharp gaze on you when you pass by   And if you dare to stand, you can see 'em cry   You can watch 'em scowl, feel 'em prowl      Wall and study every inch about you   Fast math measuring what you amount to   The laughter, the screams   The numeral, the song of psalms, the book of dreams      Ends don't meet where the arms can't reach mean streets   Even when it's free it ain't cheap   On going saga, terminal diagnosis   Basic survival requires super heroics      No space in the budget for a cake   It's when you gotta fly by night to save the day      Crash landings routinely happen   Some survive, others never rise from the ashes   Watching asphalt and observing the Sabbath   Creates an ecstatic and there you have it      From teenage love praying in tongue   Strange fruit, batty boots and native drums   From hence I come, so here we go   Signs and wonders all along the road      Some lies open, some lies close   Some stretchers role with no lies at all   Some riders don't know what they riding for   Hands on the wheel and their mind is gone      Wherever you ride, whatever your name   This raw cold life is a beautiful thing   And we are alive in amazing times   Delicate hearts, diabolical minds      Revelations, hatred, love and war   And more and more and more and more   And more of less than ever before   It's just too much more for your mind to absorb      It's scary like hell but there's no doubt   We can't be alive in no time but now      It's just a sure shot to the heart   It's just a sure shot in the dark   It's just another place in the star   [Incomprehensible]   Life in marvelous time, life in marvelous time      Right, everywhere all over the world   You can feel it, all over the world   Feel it, feel it rise everywhere      It's just a sure shot to the heart   It's just a sure shot in the dark   It's just another place in the star   [Incomprehensible]   Life in marvelous time, life in marvelous time   Now