Phoenix Rise… lyrics - Canibus

[Hook:]

(But I couldn’t get around it)

I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

Black Star, black light; just another day in the life

Paying the price, still trying to live righteous, right?

Up before sunrise, open my eyes

Take a walk with my spirit guide, go outside

They think I lost my mind, but I’m just looking at the hands of time

Until it’s time to cross that divide

Already fulfilled my purpose, I spit these verses

This whole material world is all worthless

Experience deep in the flesh

My memory has a shelf life from my first to my last breath

That’s why I laugh at death; every week cash the check

Go home with some gas and a spliff

Canibus! See I knew Bis

Couldn’t get around it; the truth is, I had to go through it

This is the price I pay to make music

This is what music like this produces

[Hook:]

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

I am the creator of the extreme; I dream

I wear clothes cut by black, gold, and green laser beams

The deep lilac lion of purified iron

Crafted a trident and offered it up to Poseidon

In earnest they may form an alliance

Before the very last drop of water on planet Earth is expired

But it was too late; the rulers of the empire rain down fire

The sound of annihilation is quiet

Nothing desired, nothing admired

Just a pile of rubble that emits silence; greed at its finest

I walk towards nowhere; something appears

I walk closer then I realize, nothing is there

I smell ammonia distilled from bones and dung

Odor at the border, the golden tongue

The fragrance made me feel weightless

Took me to a faraway place that felt familiar but ancient

It feels ancient because, this all happened before

Lord Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds

I woke from the dream and for whatever it’s worth

I said a prayer to the Most High; it could’ve been worse

He performed great works, recreated the earth

Shewbread dipped in olive oil, you taste first

[Hook x2:]

(But I couldn’t get around it)

I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The windmill of wealth doesn’t spin by itself

No matter who you are, you need help

Hate is inspired by survival

That’s why some people never get along

Even when then try to

Everything happens in cycles

You was king for a century, then you was beaten by your rival

I asked life, “How do I describe you?”

Sits down beside you, looks you in the eye spiteful

If karma goes around for real

Then it must be taking the scenic route, on foot, no wheels

Think you hot cuz you got deal?

Nothing lasts forever, now kneel

That’s what I thought; how it feel?

That’s all I’m trying to reveal

I ain’t trying to see your dreams get killed

And watch you fiend for a mill

The Devil in a red suit, sittin’ on the stoop

Eatin’ goat head soup; some type of throwback loop

The blowback blew you off of the roof

And caused other problems too

I speak to it, then it talk to you

I find a trophy underneath all the dust and grime

At least one more time, I can bust a rhyme

Then forever the rapper organize metadata; success is a ladder

The higher you go, the more the risk it collapses

Energy returned on energy invested

Other than that, doesn’t matter who the best is

[Hook]

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

Gotta make a decision, gotta decide

It don’t always work out how you want sometimes

(But I couldn’t get around it)

The Most High knows I tried