Make a Change - Nahko and Medicine for the People/Zella Day (泽拉 黛)

If I make it out alive I will make a change

If I make it out alive I will make a change

I need a change it's evident

A transformation imminent

A chance for my soul's intelligence

To redefine lines of indifference

I ride past the spirit with the

Well scratched pad

Always looking at my poetry for

The reasons I had

Never stopped and let someone

Else take the wheel

Now I'm in the backseat like what

The f*ck is real

Got to bury the hatchet

Bones no casket

The dead don't dance to a liars message

So restless

'Cross it off my checklist

Poetical warfare a bear with horse hair

He's reckless acts like he's got a deathwish

True hey hoka tricking the trickster

Laws of nature loyal creature

Son of the most high willing to wager my plan

And Imma stick to it

And Imma ultimately liberate my consciousness

I want the change

I will make a change

If I make it out alive I'll come out

On the other side

If the sacrifice I owe is the reason

That I die

And I know this too shall pass so

I put it in the past

And of all the things I fear it isn't now

And it isn't here

I'll make a change

I will make a change

It comes at a cost and that's obvious

My list of distractions is infinite

My delusions of grandeur are all equipped

With dark lords back doors and some wizard sh*t

Well I did not know they were gonna choose me

And I oughta take myself more seriously

'Cause what comes through me no it ain't no trick

And I know that all of us are born with

Different gifts so

Lift yourself from darkness take a couple steps back

On an abstract attack I fell beneath the cracks

I didn't come here to drone out and drag my feet

Stand in quicksand both hands and accept defeat

I got work to do let me get back at it

The clock is tickin' I can hear it through

The static

Now I'm not being dramatic enemies don't

Sleep

In fact some aren't human and that's hard

To believe

'Cause I'm such a visual person my third

Eye don't lie

He's a wise guy inside even fooled

Himself twice

Thinking maybe I'm not ready to be

Leading the way

I mean f*ck I'm only human bound to

Make some mistakes

An earthquake took place within my

Lifetime of fear I hear this too shall

Pass the beginning is near

I want the change

I will make a change

If I make it out alive I'll come out

On the other side

If the sacrifice I owe is the reason

That I die

And I know this too shall pass so

I put it in the past

And of all the things I fear it isn't

Now and it isn't here

I'll make a change

I will make a change

I wanna walk in righteousness

But I keep tripping over ditches of my

Selfishness

I wanna pass a fist to a pacifist

I keep beating round the bush instead

Of facing it

So I'm facing it some gladiator sh*t

Yeah I'm rippin' over rhythms yeah

I'm healin' it

But it's non stop knocks from the mountain

Top to the city block to the

Tanks stop and block

Another brother got shot dead on

The sidewalk

While the cops doing inside jobs

And I'm shocked

So my hands are stretched out to

The sky

Got some poems in my left and a

Gun in my right

And my eyes'll cry over bulletproof pride

'Cause I know I didn't come to make it out alive

And I thrive in the midst of a battle

Front lines you can see me in the struggle

These are the songs of a walk towards revival

Even brave men can put down their rifles

I got my orders and Imma follow them

You can find me kickin' back inside the lion's den

I'm making friends and amends with some evil men

Gonna bring them in and inject them with

The medicine

Imma do no harm but I'm a take no sh*t

And I'm a build a bridge out of the emptiness

And then potentially well Imma live to be

The hardest working bear in the f*cking industry

I will make a change

I will make a change

I will make a change