I want to be as free as the spirits of those who left   I'm talking Malcom, Coltrane, my man Yusef   Through death through conception   New breath and resurrection   For moms, new steps in her direction   In the right way   Told inside is where the fight lay   And everything a nigga do may not be what he might say   Chicago nights stay, stay on the mind   But I write many lives and lay on these lines   Wave the signs of the times   Many say the grind's on the mind   Shorties blunted-eyed and everyone wonderin' where I'm   Bush pushing lies, killers immortalized   We got arms but won't reach for the skies   Waiting for the Lord to rise   I look into my daughter's eyes   And realize that I'ma learn through her   The Messiah, might even return through her   If I'ma do it, I gotta change the world through her   Furs and a Benz, gramps wantin 'em   Demons and old friends, pops they hauntin' him   The chosen one from the land of the frozen sun   When drunk nights get remembered more than sober ones   Walk like warriors, we were never told to run   Explored the world to return to where my soul begun   Never looking back or too far in front of me   The present is a gift   and I just wanna BE