The Book of Soul (Explicit) - Ab-Soul

Soul

Ah ah ah la la la la la la

Your momma told me read the book of Job

They shoulda called it the book of soul

I came into this hurtful earth in perfect health

Caught Steven Johnson syndrome when I was ten years old

Internal and external fever 80%

Fatality rate at that time

Ain't that some sh*t

Severe pink eye

My eyes swollen shut

For like two or three months

It still bright as f**k oh

And I even lost my lip skin

Grew back darker than it's original pigment

Skin disfigured from boils and blisters

Unidentifiable by my little sister

Come to think of it I could've got a crazy check

The shrink thought I'd be traumatized but I'm alright

My first years of junior high school were not alright

Them dimes wouldn't give me no time

No not a nod

I mean not even you

We eventually got cool

But I was nobody

You was the hottest hottie in the school

But the world to me

Not saying that cause I'm your dude

I'm glad I got to watch the woman that you blossomed too

Ironic we always had the same classes

I copied off your work

And you ain't always had the right answers but it worked

Mama thanks a lot

Probably wouldn't have graduated had you not

Somewhere down the line we became an item

The love was in the air like this flight I'm lightin'

The first few years was so excitin'

Got deeper in this rap and started pushing sh*t back

My money got funny

You wanted to go on dates

I had a Soundwave beat tape tryna be Drake

Could've spent every minute with you but I had to get it

For me and you

You sing too so you knew the business

I know it was hard but you stayed down

My fam had doubts

You told me you was proud

I did some things you did some things

Always came back together

We knew the only way to make it work was work together

Seven whole years seven whole years

It was supposed to end with our grandkids

Luckily for me I'm used to being cut short

But I'm such a nice guy why Lord

Why Lori

Why'd you have to take her from me

Guess you needed your angel face for all of heaven to see

Your picture still on my mirror and it's so scary

I swear I still ain't looked at your obituary

So now I'm so doped up I think I'm flying

I hope the spliff will never finish

I guess the Mayans wasn't lying

2012 my world ended

You used to say that I could see the future

You was wrong cause you was in it

And I was just with you the day before

You said you loved me I said I loved you more

And as much I wanna cower and bid the mic adieu

And fall off a f**king tower tryna find you

I gotta stay cause I remember that day I looked you

In the face and told you nothing can stop me

Not even you

Stick to the plan

I'll meet you at our spot

If reincarnation is true and we don't get too lost

Even if you forget me and everything you left behind

I never lied

I love you in a place where there's no space and time

I close my eyes and I can still hear you singing loud

We never got to tell them who The Love Religion was about

I ain't finna stage a cry in this rhyme

Signed

Sincerely yours

I live to let you

Da da da da da da da da da da

Shine

Da da da da da da da hu

Everything I love most get taken away

My momma and music is next

And if that happens before I turn 28

Then I'm going out with Curt Cobain

I still believe in God we just ain't never spoke

Unless we talking symbolically then I might agree

But if you really wanna look at it that way then

Hey man

God don't like me

Wu wu wu

I refuse to believe that

But what's acceptable is anything's possible

But nobody special

My ma took my TV took my radio

Now I'm on TV and on the radio

Don't be dethroned by these systems of control

Just keep your fingers crossed and get them locks off your soul

Don't be dethroned by these systems of control

Just keep your fingers crossed and get them locks off your soul

Soul