Saul Williams Our Father Lyrics

I just want to talk about a good father, now coming
From me
if you where to personally
Look at my life, you would ask
the
Question what do you know about a good father?
And
that would be a fair question, because one of
The
statements i have written on my notes
Here today is that
men need examples and
That's not holy men, all of us are
helped by examples.
But it does seem that as men we feel
better when
Other men show us that they are man
Enough
to do whatever it is that we have
Hesitancy in doing,
whether it is cook, sew maybe sit or to
Shout, clap our
hands, cry.
We sometimes can't do it until we
See
other men who have lost themselves
In the praise of god and
in life.
So it would certainly be a fair question, on
this
Father's day to ask what do you know about a good
father.
Now when i say father i am speaking of one who
Is the guardian or biological male in your life.
Who
takes you out with them, who teaches
You and gives you the
instructions to follow.
Proverbs talks about the son or
daughter following
The instructions of the father, well
certainly there is no
Equivication about that, that's
Wonderful, howe'er, in order to follow ones
instructions
They most know what they are doing.
We
ask sociologically why are there so
Many messed up
families, what's the problem?
Well in most of those cases,
those children
Have no or little example to follow.
There are exceptions but in most of those cases
They have
little or no example to follow.
A good father is more than
one who
Provides shelter, food and body coverage.
Now
i pray that those fathers who are
Here and those mothers
who had to
Be fathers also and everyone once in a while we
find
Some fathers who had to be mothers also:

Saul:

Our father which art in st. frances hospital
for hypotension.
Our father which art in jumpsuits and
prisons, federal detention.
Our father which art in dark
bars and alleys, lethal injection.
Our father which art in
denial and delusion. this cannot happen again.

Hallowed be thy. state your name for the record.
Hallowed
be thy. state your name for the record.
Hallowed be thy.
state your name for the record.
Hallowed be thy. state your
name for the record.
Hallowed be thy. state your name for
the record.
Hallowed be thy. state your name for the
record. selves disraeli end.

Dear goddess we made
this break beat just for you
As an offering, can you hear
us now.
Dear goddess we made this break beat just for
you
As an offering, can you hear us now.
Dear goddess
we made this break beat just for you
As an offering, can
you feel us now.
Dear goddess we made this break beat just
for you
As an offering, can you heel us now.

When i was young i cried when i found out i couldn't have
children
Soon after i started rhyming no one was nicer than
me
I mean it up state new york
I learned to beat box
in my tree house
Sounded good out there
Would you
rather hear about guns fear
Or broken glass in the
tenement
Should i rob to make you fear me now.
Dear
goddess can you hear me now clear the
Way and prepare me
now dear goddess can you hear me now.

Dear goddess we
made this break
Beat just for you as an offering, can you
hear us now.
Dear goddess we made this
Break beat just
for you as an offering, can you heel us now.

I'm
suppose to be dressed up in mc 'cause i never sold a key.
I
sold my homework but
You' all n_____'s were to busy
hustling to do
The down work now you can only rhyme
about
How you're stealing chrome work or your cell phone
jerk
Change your topic, d___ i'm suppose to be
praying
I got to stop it.