I Heard You Had a Voice Like an Angel / Psalm 137 - SHAD

I heard you had a voice like an angel

I heard a strange tale about a saint that fell, music became jail

These bars I hear you wrapped in 'em

Wove in the beats like the clothing of sheep, wolves tracks, spin 'em

DJ’s, CD’s, C-notes, G’s thrown

On D’s, we’ll be kings like T.I., hope

I heard you even sang when you spoke

And the emotion you evoked got you choked

When your beauty struck a vocal chord broke, boatless dove overboard

Looked upon the ocean, caught your reflection before the Lord’s

I heard you had a voice like an angel

Strange though, you were blinded by the light

Shining from your own halo, fell off

Sort of like a rainbow when heaven watched your faint glow fade slow

I heard you had a voice like an angel

I heard that fame’s a killer that can murder great princes

Like Kurt Cobain singing Purple Rain from a distance

Hope home ain’t a virtual game

Nor this cursed place Earth where the dollars and the karma don’t circulate

The world’s a stage and you know this play well

Gee I bet you even know how it ends, pray tell

Had a voice like an angel, now you score the drama scenes

The comedy’s the fact we enact what you want to be

Had some old songs still stuck in your memory

Distorted though, so you sort of re-assembled melodies

And fine-tune and turned 'em into single after single

In this industry you built so sinfully simple for

You to write cause a song is what your life was

The destiny of stars is their light must fight dusk

With sparks of brilliance to ignite us

And of all the billions of stars you were by far the brightest

I heard you had a voice like an angel

Now it’s just a light hush

But now you keep everybody’s eyes on charts and schedules

And the trends, trying to stack gold bars and medals

They want vessels void and dark as space

Fools wanna make stars instead of music that’s smart or special

Because art at a level that’s real can be harder to peddle

Business prefers a market that settles

For second rate, kill the true artists martyr the rebels

That’s the system and it’s straight from the heart of the devil

See, merchants of dreams sold to souls eyes-wide shut

Passing the buck to purchase a pass to buy stuff

Working in this circus get hired up

To walk over have-knots on a tight rope tied up in my gut

It’s a delicate balance, developing talent

Into persons that we worship, yo it’s a hell of a challenge

I heard you had a voice like an angel

And don’t really sing no more but you still running the game so

If we don’t behave like them, they call us crazy

And if we won’t slave for them, they call us lazy

Lately, I’ve started to see why you hate me

Hearing this voice, it must be painful

To the ears when for years you had a voice like an angel

If you don’t behave like them, they call you crazy

And if you won’t slave for them, they call you lazy

Well I say…

They wanna take your mind, turn it into a prison

And lock you inside then they call that living

Well I say…

I heard you had a voice like an angel

They say smile for the camera

They say smile for the camera

Smile for the camera

While they take your children

Smile for the camera

While we rape your women

Smile for the camera

While we make our millions

Smile for the camera

While we make our buildings

Smile for the camera

Smile for the camera

They say smile for the camera…