Violets - Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, Phonte

Something so wonderful and new

A million colors just for you

It shines in everything you do

Like violets

Yo

Blues and greens and violets

Eyes get

Heavy with the weight of the world

Around the iris

It’s like something insane

It’s like a virus

It’s like a hybrid

Of all your joys and your pains

That you bring to the table

Periodically

And memorize 'em like a scientist

For you to make it dawg

Ya gonna need alliances

A blessing and a prayer from the whole Archdiocese arch Diocese

Let’s put it to rest

Cause I’m so in need of one

I only hear about it and never really seen it done

Everybody asking when I’m coming out

So when I run a route

I take the scenic one

To get away from all that ails me

I return to the place that never fails me

The hues spread the news

Giving color to your frailties

The blues and the greens and all that’s in between

And this is how I mean

One time

Something so wonderful and new

A million colors just for you

It shines in everything you do

Like violets

Yo

Blues and greens and violets

Eyes get

Heavy with the weight of the world

Around the iris

So much that I be appalled to see 'em

Close your eyes envision the cause for freedom

But when they open it’s a struggle to carpe diem

Cause the streets is littered with niggas from mausoleums

Giving up is the last option

So when I spit my last doctrine

I make the audience clap for my offensive lines

Like they pass blocking

I really wanna chill

But I ain’t in that yet

Don’t wanna live in excess

Think I need her tonight

Like INXS

But my mind is talking to me like

«Nigga don’t you send that text"(NO!)

Take time to introspect

So you can keep going

To get those checks

And give praises

Cause never before have you been so blessed

When the troubles of the world

Start to ail me

I return to the place that never fails me

The hues spread the news

Giving color to your frailties

The blues and the greens and all that’s in between

Like that.

Ride it out.

Hey

The blues and the greens and all that’s in between

And this is how I mean

Something so wonderful and new

A million colors just for you

It shines in everything you do

Like violets